Improved process for recovering zinc from zinc-containing feedstock
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- TECH REUNIDAS SA
- Publication Date
- 2022-05-27
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Abstract
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[0001] The present invention relates to the field of zinc recovery methods, and more particularly to hydrometallurgical processing using different zinc primary and / or secondary feedstocks allowing to obtain electrolytic zinc or high purity zinc compounds. Background technique
[0002] Processes using various primary or secondary zinc sources as raw materials have been known for decades. Most of them are based on hydrometallurgical processing, the main purpose of which is to obtain zinc or its salts with high purity.
[0003] The first method involves the roasting of the primary raw material (zinc sulfide concentrate), by which impure zinc oxide is obtained. It was then subjected to a leaching step with sulfuric acid, thereby producing an aqueous zinc-containing solution still containing high levels of impurities, which was purified by displacing the precipitation with zinc powder. The purified solution is sent to an electrolytic extraction step to produce m...