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Title: Recovery of flake graphite from steelmaking kish. Report of investigations/1994

Abstract

As part of its research efforts to encourage conservation and reuse of natural resources, the Bureau of Mines has developed a processing method to produce high-quality flake graphite from the steelmaking waste known as kish. The kish produced by current steelmaking practices is a mixture of graphite, desulfurization slag, and iron that is skimmed from the molten iron feed to the basic oxygen furnace. It is estimated that the graphite content of kish discarded by American steel plants is more than sufficient to meet the total U.S. demand for flake graphite. That need is now filled by natural graphite from foreign sources. Kish was treated by a combination of screening and hydraulic classification to produce a concentrate containing greater than 70 pct graphite. Leaching of the concentrate with hydrochloric acid solution gave a graphite product with 95 pct purity.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Bureau of Mines, Reno, NV (United States). Reno Research Center
OSTI Identifier:
6925004
Report Number(s):
PB-95-104865/XAB; BUMINES-RI-9512
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS RECOVERY; RECYCLING; METAL INDUSTRY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; CARBON; ELEMENTAL MINERALS; ELEMENTS; INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT; MINERALS; NONMETALS; PROCESSING; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; 320305* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Industrial & Agricultural Processes- Industrial Waste Management

Citation Formats

Laverty, P D, Nicks, L J, and Walters, L A. Recovery of flake graphite from steelmaking kish. Report of investigations/1994. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Laverty, P D, Nicks, L J, & Walters, L A. Recovery of flake graphite from steelmaking kish. Report of investigations/1994. United States.
Laverty, P D, Nicks, L J, and Walters, L A. 1994. "Recovery of flake graphite from steelmaking kish. Report of investigations/1994". United States.
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abstractNote = {As part of its research efforts to encourage conservation and reuse of natural resources, the Bureau of Mines has developed a processing method to produce high-quality flake graphite from the steelmaking waste known as kish. The kish produced by current steelmaking practices is a mixture of graphite, desulfurization slag, and iron that is skimmed from the molten iron feed to the basic oxygen furnace. It is estimated that the graphite content of kish discarded by American steel plants is more than sufficient to meet the total U.S. demand for flake graphite. That need is now filled by natural graphite from foreign sources. Kish was treated by a combination of screening and hydraulic classification to produce a concentrate containing greater than 70 pct graphite. Leaching of the concentrate with hydrochloric acid solution gave a graphite product with 95 pct purity.},
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year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1994}
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