Physico-Chemical Characterisation of Industrial Manganese Dusts and Sludges and its Implication for Agglomeration: From Ore to Metal - Université de Lorraine
Conference Papers Year : 2019

Physico-Chemical Characterisation of Industrial Manganese Dusts and Sludges and its Implication for Agglomeration: From Ore to Metal

Beate Orberger
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J.M. Milazzo
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S.B. Blancher
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Abstract

"Industrial dusts are commonly agglomerated using empirical recipes with binders such as bentonite, while Sludges are agglomerated into mixes. Those materials contaminate the products, are expensive and generate significant amounts of slag. Achieving cold dust agglomeration with little or no binder requires understanding the controlling parameters in order to predict and optimize the process behavior. This in turn necessitates comprehensive dust characterization to base predictions on measurable characteristics. In the present work we collected 13 Mn-rich dusts over all the process chain: feed fines, smelting, and refining dusts, as well as ferromanganese alloy dust. This is the first systematic study of dusts along the Mn-processing chain for chemical, physical and mineralogical parameters. X-Ray Diffraction, Qemscan® and laser granulometry analyses show that the mineralogy, Particle Size Distribution (PSD) and morphology evolves from complex heterogenous to simple, homogenous along the process chain: The mineralogy of the primary ore dusts shows various hydroxides, oxides, carbonates, tectosilicates and phyllosilicates. The furnace dusts contain oxides, tectosilicates and carbonates with volatiles, while the refining dusts present only oxides and metal. Finally, the Metal dust is nearly pure metal. Particle morphologies and PSD vary from jagged, irregular particles with broad PSD (>1 mm to <0.3 µm) to smooth and spherical with narrow PSD (100 µm to <0.3 µm). The Metal dust is an exception with angular particles. The Cationic Exchange Capacities (CECs) of all samples range from 0 to 22 meq/100g. Specific surface areas (SSAs) range from <0.1 to 27m²/g, and seem to decrease with from ore feed to Metal dust. This may be due to the disappearance of hydrated and/or sheet-bearing minerals, since a smaller grain size usually implies an increased SSA. The zeta potential varies strongly over the range of the samples tested. However, beside the Gabon ore which has an Isoelectric Point (IEP) ~ 4.1, the other IEP ranges between 2 and 2.5."

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hal-04505697 , version 1 (15-03-2024)

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John-Lee Dubos, Beate Orberger, J.M. Milazzo, S.B. Blancher, Johannes Lützenkirchen. Physico-Chemical Characterisation of Industrial Manganese Dusts and Sludges and its Implication for Agglomeration: From Ore to Metal. International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2018), Sep 2018, Moscou, Russia. ⟨hal-04505697⟩
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