Technology for Complex Processing of Electric Smelting Dusts of Ilmenite Concentrates to Produce Titanium Dioxide and Amorphous Silica
Karshyga Z. Ultarakova A. Lokhova N. Yessengaziyev A. Kassymzhanov K. Myrzakulov M.
December 2022MDPI
Metals
2022#12Issue 12
This paper presents the results of research on the development of a technology intended to process electric smelting dusts of ilmenite concentrate with the extraction of silicon and titanium and the production of products in the form of their dioxides. Dusts were processed for silicon separation using the ammonium fluoride method. The optimum conditions for the fluorination and sublimation process of silicon compounds from the electric smelting dust of the ilmenite concentrate were determined: a temperature of 260 °С, a 6 h duration, and mass ratio of dust to ammonium bifluoride of 1:0.5 ÷ 0.9. The sublimation degree of silicon compounds was ~84–91%. The sublimation of titanium fluorides from the remaining sinter was carried out at a temperature of 600 ± 10 °C for 2 h, the mass ratio titanium-containing residue: ammonium bifluoride of 1:0.5, and the degree of sublimation of titanium fluorides was 99%. Iron, manganese, and chromium impurities in the sublimation of titanium fluorides sublimate to a rather low degree. Pyrohydrolysis of titanium fluoride sublimes at 600 °C and allows for the conversion of fluorides into titanium dioxide by 99.5% in 4–5 h. Titanium dioxide of rutile modification with 99.8% TiO2 was obtained after hydrochloric acid purification and calcination. A technological scheme for the complex processing of dust from the electric smelting of ilmenite concentrates with the production of silica and titanium dioxide is proposed.
dust , fluoroammonium processing , silicon dioxide , sublimate , titanium dioxide
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The Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation, Satbayev University, Almaty, 050013, Kazakhstan
Institute of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Satbayev University, Almaty, 050013, Kazakhstan
The Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation
Institute of Energy and Mechanical Engineering
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