Producing A Ferroalloy And Zinc Concentrate From The Shalkiya Deposit Sulfide And Oxidized Ores Mixture
Makhanbetova B. Shevko V. Aitkulov D.
2025Tamkang University
Journal of Applied Science and Engineering
2025#28Issue 1175 - 182 pp.
The article examines the results of joint processing of a mixture of the Shalkiya deposit sulfide and oxidized Zn − Pb ores (4.7% of ZnS, 1.7% of PbS, 0.3% of ZnO, 0.1 of PbO) by the electrothermal method using magnetite as an iron-containing component and an oxidizer for zinc and lead sulfides. The computer thermodynamic modeling with use of the HSC-10 software package, based on the minimum Gibbs energy principle, allowed us to establish that the formation of iron silicide FeSi2 and gaseous zinc from a ZnO and ZnS mixture in the presence of Fe3O4 and C is possible at a temperature of > 1463.1, and FeSi2 and gaseous lead at a temperature of > 1457.3. Zinc, containing in the ore mixture, passes almost completely (≥ 99%) at a temperature of more than 1600◦C, and up to 88.6% of lead - only at 1900◦C. Using the second-order rotatable designs (Box-Hunter plans) and combined optimization, it was found that, under equilibrium conditions, FS45 grade ferrosilicon (41.0 − 43.6% of Si) can be produced from the sulfide and oxidized ores’ mixture in the presence of 18 − 22% of Fe3O4 at 1768 − 1900◦C. Electric melting a mixture of the ores, magnetite concentrate and coke was accompanied by intense foaming, associated with the saturation of the melt with gaseous CO, SO2, Zn and Pb. The foaming was noticeably reduced when iron containing in the magnetite was partially replaced by iron containing in steel shavings.
carbon-thermal reduction , electric smelting , magnetite , oxide ore , thermodynamic model , zinc ore
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Department of Technologies of Silicate Materials and Metallurgy, Higher School of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Mukhtar Auezov South Kazakhstan University, 5 Tauke Khan Ave., Shymkent, 160012, Kazakhstan
National Center on Complex Processing of Mineral Raw Materials of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 67 Zhandosov str., Almaty, 050036, Kazakhstan
Department of Technologies of Silicate Materials and Metallurgy
National Center on Complex Processing of Mineral Raw Materials of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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