Recycling of base metals from metal wastes of brass foundries
Conference
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OSTI ID:72821
- Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI (United States). Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
A process has been developed to recover and recycle metals from wastes of brass foundries which contain copper, zinc and lead in various quantities. Tests were conducted to evaluate several leachants, including sulfuric acid, ammonia, hydrochloric acid, cyanide and acetic acid, and to determine the optimum leaching conditions, such as air flow rate, initial copper ion concentration, temperature, and agitation strength. Sulfuric acid containing copper sulfate with dissolved oxygen is the most successful leachant. More than 99% of the copper and zinc originally present in the waste was dissolved, while only 0.5% of the lead entered the solution after 14 hours of leaching. The leaching mechanisms of copper, zinc, and lead are proposed. The copper and zinc can be recovered from the solution by electrolytic processing. The unleached residue may be converted to a lead carbonate which can be converted to litharge at 400--450 C and to massicot at temperature above 500 C by calcination.
- OSTI ID:
- 72821
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950201--; ISBN 0-87339-287-6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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