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Title: Removal of copper from ferrous scrap

Abstract

A process for removing copper from ferrous or other metal scrap in which the scrap is contacted with a polyvalent metal sulfide slag in the presence of an excess of copper-sulfide forming additive to convert the copper to copper sulfide which is extracted into the slag to provide a ratio of copper in the slag to copper in the metal scrap of at least about 10.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
7018393
Patent Number(s):
6079389
Assignee:
ANL; ERA-14-000845; EDB-88-184227
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES F02D - CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES
DOE Contract Number:  
W-31109-ENG-38
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; COPPER SULFIDES; EXTRACTION; IRON ALLOYS; PURIFICATION; SCRAP METALS; ADDITIVES; COPPER; INVENTIONS; IRON SULFIDES; REACTION KINETICS; RECYCLING; SLAGS; STEELS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; ALLOYS; CHALCOGENIDES; COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELEMENTS; IRON BASE ALLOYS; IRON COMPOUNDS; KINETICS; MANAGEMENT; METALS; SCRAP; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLID WASTES; SULFIDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; WASTES; 320305* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Industrial & Agricultural Processes- Industrial Waste Management; 400201 - Chemical & Physicochemical Properties

Citation Formats

Blander, M, and Sinha, S N. Removal of copper from ferrous scrap. United States: N. p., 1987. Web.
Blander, M, & Sinha, S N. Removal of copper from ferrous scrap. United States.
Blander, M, and Sinha, S N. Thu . "Removal of copper from ferrous scrap". United States.
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abstractNote = {A process for removing copper from ferrous or other metal scrap in which the scrap is contacted with a polyvalent metal sulfide slag in the presence of an excess of copper-sulfide forming additive to convert the copper to copper sulfide which is extracted into the slag to provide a ratio of copper in the slag to copper in the metal scrap of at least about 10.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {1987},
month = {7}
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