Study of the Processes of Metal Recovery from Steel Slags

The methods of waste processing and salvaging are considered for steelmaking slags. The dump slags of the Zlatoust metallurgical works are analyzed. A scheme of two-stage metal reduction from the dump slags using the reduction– melting scheme is developed and tested under laboratory conditions. The reduction parameters that correspond to the maximum recovery of a metallic component from the slags are found. Experimental researches included experiments on solid-phase and liquid-phase recovery of slag samples at temperatures of 1000-1500°C. The results of thermodynamic modeling and experimental high-temperature slag processing allow speaking about the advisability of preliminary solid-phase recovery slag in the atmosphere of carbon monoxide with subsequent high-temperature (liquid phase) recovery to obtain the separate metal fractions.