Recovery of iron and copper from copper smelting furnace slags by carbon injection. Report of investigations/1982

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6454770

Paige, J I; Paulson, D L; Hunter, W

The Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, conducts research on methods to minimize the requirements for mineral raw materials through conservation, substitution, and increased minerals and metals recovery from primary and secondary domestic resources. To further this goal, prior Bureau research had devised a pyrometallurgical technique (RI 8211) to recover metallic iron and copper from molten copper smelting furnace slags by carbothermic reduction. As a continuation of this Bureau research on the carbon injection technique, reverberatory and electric furnace slags were treated in an 800-kva electric arc furnace by simultaneously top feeding the slag and injecting coke breeze into the bottom of the molten bath.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Mines, Albany, OR (USA). Albany Research Center
• OSTI ID: 6454770
• Report Number(s): PB-83-122721
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
ARC FURNACES
MATERIALS RECOVERY
SMELTERS
CARBON
COPPER
INJECTION
IRON
PYROMETALLURGY
SLAGS
ELECTRIC FURNACES
ELEMENTS
EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY
FURNACES
INTAKE
MANAGEMENT
METALLURGY
METALS
NONMETALS
PROCESSING
RECOVERY
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
320305* - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Industrial & Agricultural Processes- Industrial Waste Management