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Processing industrial wastes with the liquid-phase reduction romelt process

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The Romelt technology for liquid-phase reduction has been developed for processing metallurgical wastes containing nonferrousmetal components. Thermodynamic calculations were made to investigate the behavior of silver, copper, zinc, manganese, vanadium, chrome, and silicon when reduced from the slag melt into the metallic solution containing iron. The process can be applied to all types of iron-bearing wastes, including electric arc furnace dust. The distribution of elements between the phases can be controlled by adjusting the slag bath temperature. Experiments at a pilot Romelt plant proved the possibility of recovering the metallurgical wastes and obtaining iron.

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  1. Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys, USSR

    V. Romenets (department head), V. Valavin (the head of laboratory), Yu. Pokhvisnev (senior scientist) & S. Vandariev (a senior scientist)

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For more information, contact Y. Pokhvisnev, Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys, Leninsky pr. 4, Moscow 117936, Russia; fax 095955-0019; e-mail pokh@aha.ru.

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Romenets, V., Valavin, V., Pokhvisnev, Y. et al. Processing industrial wastes with the liquid-phase reduction romelt process. JOM 51, 33–37 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-999-0239-8

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