331results about "Metal recycling" patented technology

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a rotor for a molten metal pump and a molten metal pump including the rotor. The rotor has a main body and a top comprised of a material that is at least twice as hard as the main body. The top, among other things, may form a first portion of each rotor blade wherein the first portion directs molten metal into a pump chamber or other structure in which the rotor is mounted.

Processes for recycling printed wire boards using environmentally-friendly compositions, wherein electronic components, precious metals and base metals may be collected for reuse and recycling.

This invention relates to a method for the preparation of lithium carbonate from lithium chloride containing brines. The method can include a silica removal step, capturing lithium chloride, recovering lithium chloride, supplying lithium chloride to an electrochemical cell and producing lithium hydroxide, contacting the lithium hydroxide with carbon dioxide to produce lithium carbonate.

There is provided a hydrometallurgical process of recovering indium and gallium values from mixtures thereof with other metal values for example recycled and scrap solar panel cells which comprises subjecting the mixture to strongly oxidizing acid conditions, preferably via the simultaneous addition of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide to the leach vessel, so as to form indium and gallium salt species of at least the major proportion of the indium and gallium values in the mixture, extracting the indium and gallium values with an organic extractant by adjusting the pH so as to extract individually the indium and gallium values with the organic extractant, stripping indium and gallium values from the extractant using an acid and an alkaline solution respectively and recovering the indium and gallium values.

The present invention relates to a method of extracting lithium from a lithium bearing solution. More specifically, the present invention provides a method of economical extraction of lithium from a lithium bearing solution by adding a phosphorous supplying material to the solution to precipitate lithium phosphate from the dissolved lithium.

Processes for recycling electronic components removed from printed wire boards, whereby precious metals and base metals are extracted from the electronic components using environmentally friendly compositions. At least gold, silver and copper ions can be extracted from the electronic components and reduced to their respective metals using the processes and compositions described herein.

There are provided processes for treating fly ash. For example, the processes can comprise leaching fly ash with HCl so as to obtain a leachate comprising aluminum ions and a solid, and separating the solid from the leachate; reacting the leachate with HCl so as to obtain a liquid and a precipitate comprising the aluminum ions in the form of AlCl3, and separating the precipitate from the liquid; and heating the precipitate under conditions effective for converting AlCl3 into Al2O3 and optionally recovering gaseous HCl so-produced.

The present invention relates to a process for the direct reduction of iron ore performed by means of a plant comprising a gravitational furnace (2) having at least one iron ore reduction zone (8) in the upper part thereof, and at least one carbon deposition zone (9) and one reduced metal product cooling zone (10) in the lower part thereof, and means for feeding a reducing gas mixture into the reactor in correspondence to the with the reduction zone, means for recycle exhaust or reactor off gas from the reactor to syngas and mixing the recycled gas with natural gas to form a reducing gas mixture. According to the invention a in first reformation step (5) unreacted carbon monoxide CO and steam present in the reactor off gas is reformed to carbon dioxide and hydrogen following the water gas shift reaction CO+H2O=CO2+H2, in a secondary reformation step the de-watered reactor off gas comprising mainly of carbon dioxide and hydrogen is processed to remove carbon dioxide, and in a third reformation step physical separation of both nitrogen and carbon oxide CO from the reducing syngas is carried out to bring down the levels of CO and any existing other gases in the recycled gas to as low level as possible such that recycled reducing gas is as close to pure hydrogen H2 as possible.

A container having a sensor adapter for receiving a sensor arrangement for measuring at least one parameter of media contained in a container interior, wherein the sensor adapter is arranged on the wall to the container interior and has an externally accessible receiving opening in a receiving channel, which is bounded toward the container interior, for adapting the sensor arrangement, wherein toward the container interior the receiving channel in the sensor adapter has at least one boundary surface which is formed by a membrane and via which the medium or media to be measured can be supplied to the sensor arrangement.

The invention discloses a high vanadium ferroalloy smelting method. The method comprises the steps of adding cold-state vanadium-rich slag and limestone to the bottom of an electric arc furnace, adding a phase-I mixture consisting of vanadium pentoxide, aluminum particles, limestone and steel cuttings and smelting; returning heat-state vanadium-enriched slag of last batch into the electric arc furnace and discharging slag when vanadium content in smelting slag is less than 0.5%; adding a phase-II mixture consisting of vanadium trioxide, aluminum particles, limestone and steel cuttings, smelting, discharging slag when vanadium content in smelting slag is less than 0.5%, and before discharging the slag, adding aluminum or aluminum-magnesium alloy for reduction treatment; adding a refining mixture consisting of vanadium pentoxide and limestone or iron scale and limestone, smelting, controlling temperature of vanadium-iron alloy liquid in the furnace to be above 1900 DEG C, discharging the vanadium-iron alloy liquid and the vanadium-enriched slag when vanadium content is 78-82% and aluminum content is less than 1.5% in the vanadium-iron alloy liquid, pouring the vanadium-iron alloy liquid into an ingot mould which is preheated to be above 500 DEG C, and cooling, demoulding and breaking to obtain high vanadium ferroalloy which contains more than 80% of vanadium.

The invention provides a method for treating steel slag. The method comprises the steps of feeding silicon-aluminum acidic oxide and steel slag, wherein the total mole ratio of the silicon-aluminum acidic oxide to basic oxide in the mixture is 1:(2.5-2.9); heating and mixing the mixture in a rotary kiln in the presence of a reducing agent, wherein the temperature of the rotary kiln is 1350-1450 DEG C; granulating the product into particles, performing water quenching and cooling, then falling the particles into water, and performing dehydration; and performing magnetic separation on the dehydrated particles to ensure that steel particles are separated from series silicate particles. The invention also provides a device for treating the steel slag, and the device comprises a rotary kiln (5), a coal spraying device (6) which is arranged at the upper end of the tail of the rotary kiln (5), and a granulation wheel (8) which is arranged below a discharge chute (7) in the lower end of the tail of the rotary kiln (5). The series silicates obtained after the treatment of the steel slag by adopting the method disclosed by the invention can replace a silicate cement clinker to produce cement. The method disclosed by the invention realizes comprehensive utilization of industrial wastes.

The invention relates to a smoke gas purification system with an integrated function of desulfuration, denitration and demercuration and a purification process, which are used for treating SOX, NOX and Hg in smoke gas and recycling sulphur and Hg in smoke gas. A uniform gas distribution plate and a flow guide plate are arranged at a smoke gas inlet in the middle of an adsorption tower, a contracting nozzle structure of a central flow collection pipe outlet in the lower section of the adsorption tower is connected with an NH3 inlet, and by the structure improvement, the adsorption tower has the advantages of uniform distribution and mixing of gas, and the smoke gas purification efficiency and the utilization rate of active coke are also improved. Due to a ring-shaped partition plate gas extracting structure of an active coke regeneration tower, no residue is formed in the tower when the regeneration tower desorbs gas; meanwhile, a mercury capturing device is arranged outside the active coke regeneration tower. The characteristic of low content of mercury in smoke gas is taken into account in the smoke gas purification process, active coke is designed for gathering Hg till Hg is saturated and then is regenerated by an acid washing method, and Hg is recycled or subjected to refilling. The smoke gas purification system has the advantages of simultaneous removal of various pollutants, good effect of uniformly distributing smoke gas and high utilization rates of heat energy and by-products, and complete gas exhaust of the regeneration tower is guaranteed.

A method for selectively removing scandium from a scandium-containing feed solution includes contacting the scandium-containing feed solution with a solvent stream in plural stages using cross current extraction, in which the solvent is loaded with at least a portion of the scandium from the feed solution, and / or ion exchange, and separating the loaded solvent from remaining scandium-containing feed solution.

Provided are an ultra-rapid hardening hydraulic binder including reduced slag powder and a method of preparing the same. The reduced slag powder is prepared by rapidly cooling molten electric arc furnace reduced slag, among by-products generated during an iron refinement process in a steel mill, to room temperature not to have free-calcium oxide by scattering the molten electric arc furnace reduced slag into the air using high-pressure gas by dropping the molten electric arc furnace reduced slag through a tundish.

A method for disposing electrical and electronic equipment comprising plastic and metal components, the method comprising: melt processing the equipment and / or comminuted parts thereof to form a melt processed product; transferring the melt processed product into a vessel and heating the product using far infrared radiation such that it liberates volatile hydrocarbons and leaves behind non-volatile residue comprising metal; and collecting one or both of the volatile hydrocarbons and the non-volatile residue for subsequent use.

Combined microwave heating and plasma / electric arc heating is utilized in several processes and apparatus which involve co-production of pig iron and high quality syngas, biomass to liquid fuel production, coal to liquid fuel production, co-gasification of biomass and coal, municipal solid waste treatment, waste-to-energy (agriculture waste, ASR and PEF), EAF dust and BOF sludge treatment to recover zinc and iron, hazardous bottom ash vitrification, and bromine, chlorine and sulfur removal / recycling.

Method of combining industrial processes having inherent carbon capture and conversion capabilities offering maximum flexibility, efficiency, and economics while enabling environmentally and sustainably sound practices. Maximum chemical energy is retained throughout feedstock processing. A hybrid thermochemical cycle couples staged reforming with hydrogen production and chlorination. Hydrogen generated is used to upgrade feedstocks including bitumen, shale, coal, and biomass. Residues of upgrading are chlorinated, metals of interest are removed, and the remainder is reacted with ammonia solution and carbon dioxide to form carbonate minerals. The combination provides emissions free production of synthetic crude oil and derivatives, as well as various metals and fertilizers. Sand and carbonate minerals are potentially the only waste streams. Through this novel processing, major carbon dioxide reduction is afforded byminimizing direct oxidation. Supplemental heat to run the reactions is obtained through external means such as concentrated solar, geothermal, or nuclear.

The process of the present invention begins with a source of silicon and silicon carbide from wafer production. The silicon / silicon carbide waste material is dewatered as need be and passed to a mixer where the waste material is agglomerated. A binder is applied to the waste material either during agglomeration or during pelletizing. A variety of organic binders may be used such as polyvinyl alcohol, molasses, sodium silicate and polyethylene glycol; however, the preferred binder is a lignosulsulfonate. The amount of binder used will depend upon the particular binder and the feed material used. The silicon / silicon carbide-containing waste material is pelletized. The invention also provided silicon / silicon carbide-containing pellets that may be used as reduction material in smelting furnaces for the production of metals and alloys.