Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is, for not being suitable for copper with this problem of independent smelting process of the natural copper mine of elemental metals form at present, provides a kind of smelting process that is suitable for this type of natural copper mine.
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention realizes by following proposal: a kind of smelting process of natural copper mine is provided, and the method comprises the following steps:
(1) batching: copper ore concentrates, iron slag, lime and flue dust are fully pulverized and mix, and obtain initial material, and wherein the parts by weight of copper ore concentrates, iron slag, lime and flue dust are respectively 95~105,35~45,1~5 and 0~10;
(2) granulate: by described initial material granulation;
(3) high temperature reduction melting: after described particle dehydrates, under reducing atmosphere, abundant melting natural separation obtain flue gas, thick slag and first part's blister copper;
(4) insulation clarification: described thick slag is clarified after 7~8h 1150~1250 ℃ of insulations, through natural separation, obtain slag, matte and second section blister copper, the first part's blister copper then described second section blister copper and step (3) being made merges and obtains total blister copper;
(5) further retailoring: after described total blister copper fusing, ventilate and be oxidized and add silica slag making, make cupric oxide and surplus slag; After separated described surplus slag, add reductive agent, described cupric oxide makes anode copper through abundant melting; Wherein, described reductive agent is preferably at least one of pine tree or diesel oil and the combination of charcoal;
(6) electrolytic refining: take described anode copper as anode, electrolytic copper foil be negative electrode, in acid electrolyte, fully electrolysis makes electrolytic copper.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, described method also comprises collects the described flue gas producing in described step (3), and described flue gas obtains the flue dust in described initial material through precipitation.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, in described initial material, the parts by weight of copper ore concentrates, iron slag, lime and flue dust are respectively 98~102,38~42,2~4 and 0~8.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, in described step (2), described particle is spheroidal particle, and the diameter of described spheroidal particle is 30~45mm.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, in described step (3), described abundant melting refers to melting 2.5~3.5h at 1300~1400 ℃.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, in described step (5), described abundant melting refers at melting 19~20h at 1300~1400 ℃.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, in described step (6), it is that 58~65 ℃, voltage are that 0.2~0.3V, current density are 200~240A/m that described abundant electrolysis refers in temperature
2lower electrolysis; Cupric concentration in described acid electrolyte is that 40~45g/L, sulfuric acid concentration are 150~200g/L.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, the natural separation of described flue gas, thick slag and first part's blister copper is by the difference of specific gravity between them, to realize in high temperature reduction fusion process, and wherein first part's blister copper is deposited on bottom.
In the smelting process of above-mentioned natural copper mine, the natural separation of described slag, matte and second section blister copper is by the difference of specific gravity between them, to realize in insulation clarifying process, and wherein second section blister copper is deposited on bottom.
Implement the smelting process of natural copper mine of the present invention, can obtain following beneficial effect: in copper ore concentrates, ferrosilicon ratio is greater than 15, during batching, add the iron slag of suitable proportion (to comprise Fe
2o
3, Fe
3o
4with FeS etc.), can regulate the ferrosilicon ratio in initial material, meet the slag making needs in high temperature reduction fusion process; Simultaneously in high temperature reduction fusion process, the incomplete combustion of the coke by q.s keeps strongly reducing atmosphere, the Fe in the thick slag producing while making melting
3o
4be reduced to FeO completely, and and SiO
2slag making realizes separated, guarantees that the rate of recovery of blister copper is not less than 96.5%; Adopt the technique of high temperature reduction melting, thick slag insulation clarification, total further retailoring of blister copper and anode copper electrorefining can make the electrolytic copper that is not less than 99.95% containing copper grade, comprehensive recovery is not less than 96%.High and the final electrolytic copper quality of metal of the present invention (total blister copper, anode copper and the electrolytic copper) rate of recovery is good, and technical process is simple, production run cost is low, and due to SO in present method
2discharge little, environmental pollution is little.
Embodiment
The natural copper mine adopting in the present invention is the special copper ore concentrates that copper exists with elemental metals copper form, and the iron that wherein comprised and the content of sulphur are also very low, and ferrosilicon ratio is greater than 15.Concrete composition and the mass percent separately of such copper ore concentrates are: Cu 28-30%, Fe 2%, S 1%, SiO
234%, CaO 6.5%, Al
2o
35.5%, MgO 1%, H
2o 13% etc.Therefore, in the smelting process of copper mine, in order to meet slag making needs, in copper ore concentrates, conventionally allocate the iron slag of suitable proportion into, make the slag type that in smelting process, slag making reaction is carried out smoothly and obtained wishing.Here iron slag used is the product of sulfurous iron ore after fluidized bed roasting, and in the strong oxidizing atmosphere of fluidized bed roasting, the Fe element in iron slag is Fe substantially
2o
3and Fe
3o
4state; In the incomplete situation of roasting, there is a small amount of FeS.Here said " the slag type of hope " refers to that it is SiO that slag type is controlled
240-42%, Fe 24-25%, CaO 9-11%.
Below, by specific embodiment, the present invention is described in further details, it should be understood that and use the object of following examples to be more fully to explain and open the present invention, and the scope not limiting the present invention in any way.
Embodiment 1:
The flue dust that by rotary conveyor, parts by weight is respectively to 100,40,3 and 7 copper ore concentrates, iron slag, lime and outsourcing is transported to respectively in mixing pan, after fully pulverizing, mixes, and obtains initial material; This initial material is proceeded in apparatus for making pearl ball, each material is bonded together equably, make the spheroidal particle that diameter is 35mm; By rotary conveyor, spheroidal particle is transported in smelting furnace, after dehydrating, carbonate in spheroidal particle, sulphate decomposition, further, in the high-temperature zone of smelting furnace at 1350 ℃, due to the various material meltings of the incomplete combustion spheroidal particle of coke and be reduced the thick slag and the first part's blister copper that obtain respectively flue gas after melting 3h, comprise part copper; Adopt dust arrester installation to collect flue gas, flue gas obtains flue dust after abundant precipitation, and the flue dust obtaining is back in batch bin, upper, uses while once preparing burden; Thick slag is proceeded in electrothermal front bed, after 1200 ℃ of insulation clarification 8h, through gravity natural separation, obtain slag, matte and second section blister copper, from top slag blanket relief outlet, discharge slag, from row's copper mouth of bottom, obtain second section blister copper, then the first part's blister copper making in smelting furnace and the second section blister copper merging that makes are obtained to total blister copper herein; By charging machine, described total blister copper is proceeded to reverberatory furnace, fusing at 1350 ℃, the oxidation of ventilating obtains cupric oxide, add silica slag making and manually will remain slag and claw from reverberatory furnace, the surplus slag of realization is separated with cupric oxide, then add the abundant reductive copper oxide of pine tree and charcoal, after reverberatory smelting 20h, obtain anode copper; Described anode copper is proceeded in electrolyzer, take described anode copper as anode, electrolytic copper foil be negative electrode, in the acid electrolyte of sulfur acid copper, fully electrolysis makes electrolytic copper, and wherein each parameter setting of electrolyzer is as follows: temperature 60 C, bath voltage 0.2V, current density 220A/m
2, sulfuric acid concentration 180g/L in electrolytic solution cupric concentration 42g/L, electrolytic solution; In embodiment, prepared blister copper, anode copper and electrolytic copper are respectively 92%, 98.8% and 99.96% containing copper grade in 1.
Adopt the smelting process in embodiment 1, after high temperature reduction melting, further the object of the thick slag of insulation clarification is, realize the separation of the copper of the part comprising in thick slag, and then improve on the one hand the rate of recovery of blister copper, make on the other hand the requirement containing the satisfied discharge of copper grade in thick slag.Wherein, the weight percent that makes the slag that matte, blister copper are very low with containing copper grade after insulation clarification is respectively 14%, 6% and 80%.
In embodiment 1, the thick slag and the slag in electrothermal front bed that in smelting furnace, obtain are all preferably three component system slag FeOSiO
2caO, its concrete forming process relates generally to following reaction:
3Fe
2O
3+CO=2Fe
3O
4+CO
2
FeS+16Fe
2O
3=11Fe
3O
4+2SO
2
Fe
3O
4+CO=3FeO+CO
2
2FeO+SiO+CaO=2FeO·SiO
2·CaO
In electrothermal front bed, blister copper, matte and slag (are respectively 8.6g/cm because self proportion is different
3, 5.5g/cm
3and 3.7g/cm
3) and realize natural separation, wherein, slag is discharged from top slag blanket relief outlet; Blister copper sinks to bottom, and discharges from Pai Tongkou.Here it should be noted that Fe
3o
4for magnetic oxide, if amount of coke is not enough in fusion process, the reducing atmosphere that its incomplete combustion produces is inadequate, the Fe producing in smelting furnace
3o
4in electrothermal front bed, may enter matte, the viscosity of matte is increased.During insulation clarification, after blister copper fusing, while passing matte in process bottom it is being deposited into, blister copper may be mixed in matte, causes the rate of recovery of blister copper to reduce.Therefore,, in the present invention, in order to guarantee the rate of recovery of blister copper, in smelting furnace, by controlling the amount of coke, by its incomplete combustion, guarantee the content of C in furnace gas, thereby keep the strongly reducing atmosphere in smelting furnace, to guarantee Fe
3o
4can be reduced to FeO completely, then with SiO
2slag making is also effectively separated.
In embodiment 1, adopt dust arrester installation to collect the flue gas producing in smelting furnace, flue gas obtains the material identical with flue dust composition in initial material after abundant precipitation, also be flue gas in smelting furnace through collection with precipitation after the flue dust that obtains can recycle when the upper batching once, wherein the composition of flue dust and content are separately Cu 8-15%, Fe16-20%, S 2-3%, SiO
226-30%, CaO 4-6%, Al
2o
37-8%, MgO 1%.Particularly, when using first method of the present invention to smelt copper mine, the flue dust in initial material is outsourcing flue dust, and composition and content separately meet above-mentioned requirements; In the situation that having flue dust output, the flue dust that adds flue gas appropriate, that adopt above-mentioned dust arrester installation to collect to obtain after abundant precipitation in described ratio during batching, to guarantee the comprehensive recovery of whole fusion process subsequently.Certainly, when using method of the present invention to smelt copper mine first, in initial material, also can not add flue dust, only need suitably to improve the add-on of copper ore concentrates, to guarantee into stove material containing copper grade; This will further illustrate by following examples.
Embodiment 2:
By rotary conveyor, parts by weight are respectively to 102,40 and 2 copper ore concentrates, iron slag and lime and are transported to respectively in mixing pan, after fully pulverizing, mix, obtain initial material; This initial material is proceeded in apparatus for making pearl ball, each material is bonded together equably, make the spheroidal particle that diameter is 38mm; By rotary conveyor, spheroidal particle is transported in smelting furnace, after dehydrating, carbonate in spheroidal particle, sulphate decomposition, further, in the high-temperature zone of smelting furnace at 1300 ℃, due to the various material meltings of the incomplete combustion spheroidal particle of coke and be reduced the thick slag and the first part's blister copper that obtain respectively flue gas after melting 3.5h, comprise part copper; Adopt dust arrester installation to collect flue gas, flue gas obtains flue dust after abundant precipitation, and the flue dust obtaining is back in batch bin, upper, uses while once preparing burden; Thick slag is proceeded in electrothermal front bed, after 1150 ℃ of insulation clarification 7h, through gravity natural separation, obtain slag, matte and second section blister copper, from top slag blanket relief outlet, discharge slag, from row's copper mouth of bottom, obtain second section blister copper, then the first part's blister copper making in smelting furnace and the second section blister copper merging that makes are obtained to total blister copper herein; By charging machine, described total blister copper is proceeded to reverberatory furnace, fusing at 1350 ℃, the oxidation of ventilating obtains cupric oxide, add silica slag making and manually will remain slag and claw from reverberatory furnace, the surplus slag of realization is separated with cupric oxide, then add the abundant reductive copper oxide of pine tree and charcoal, after reverberatory smelting 19h, obtain anode copper; Described anode copper is proceeded in electrolyzer, take described anode copper as anode, electrolytic copper foil be negative electrode, in the acid electrolyte of sulfur acid copper, fully electrolysis makes electrolytic copper, and wherein each parameter setting of electrolyzer is as follows: 58 ℃ of temperature, bath voltage 0.25V, current density 220A/m
2, sulfuric acid concentration 170g/L in electrolytic solution cupric concentration 45g/L, electrolytic solution; In embodiment, prepared blister copper, anode copper and electrolytic copper are respectively 93%, 98.5% and 99.95% containing copper grade in 2.
Embodiment 3:
The flue dust that by rotary conveyor, parts by weight is respectively to 100,38,4 and 6 copper ore concentrates, iron slag, lime and outsourcing is transported to respectively in mixing pan, after fully pulverizing, mixes, and obtains initial material; This initial material is proceeded in apparatus for making pearl ball, each material is bonded together equably, make the spheroidal particle that diameter is 45mm; By rotary conveyor, spheroidal particle is transported in smelting furnace, after dehydrating, carbonate in spheroidal particle, sulphate decomposition, further, in the high-temperature zone of smelting furnace at 1300 ℃, due to the various material meltings of the incomplete combustion spheroidal particle of coke and be reduced, after melting 2.5h, obtain respectively flue gas, thick slag and first part's blister copper; Thick slag is proceeded in electrothermal front bed, after 1150 ℃ of insulation clarification 7.5h, through natural separation, be met slag, matte and the second section blister copper of emission request, from top slag blanket relief outlet, discharge slag, from row's copper mouth of bottom, obtain second section blister copper, then the first blister copper making in smelting furnace and the second section blister copper merging that makes are obtained to total blister copper herein; By charging machine, described total blister copper is proceeded to reverberatory furnace, fusing at 1400 ℃, the oxidation of ventilating obtains cupric oxide, add silica slag making and manually will remain slag and claw from reverberatory furnace, the surplus slag of realization is separated with cupric oxide, then add the abundant reductive copper oxide of diesel oil and charcoal, after reverberatory smelting 19h, obtain anode copper; Described anode copper is proceeded in electrolyzer, take described anode copper as anode, electrolytic copper foil be negative electrode, in the acid electrolyte of sulfur acid copper, fully electrolysis makes electrolytic copper, and wherein each parameter setting of electrolyzer is as follows: 58 ℃ of temperature, bath voltage 0.25V, current density 240A/m
2, sulfuric acid concentration 200g/L in electrolytic solution cupric concentration 40g/L, electrolytic solution; In embodiment, prepared blister copper, anode copper and electrolytic copper are respectively 90%, 98.5% and 99.95% containing copper grade in 3.
Embodiment 4:
By rotary conveyor, parts by weight are respectively to the flue dust obtaining in dust arrester installation in 98,42,4 and 8 copper ore concentrates, iron slag, lime and embodiment 1 and are transported to respectively in mixing pan, after fully pulverizing, mix, obtain initial material; This initial material is proceeded in apparatus for making pearl ball, each material is bonded together equably, make the spheroidal particle that diameter is 30mm; By rotary conveyor, spheroidal particle is transported in smelting furnace, after dehydrating, carbonate in spheroidal particle, sulphate decomposition, further, in the high-temperature zone of smelting furnace at 1400 ℃, due to the various material meltings of the incomplete combustion spheroidal particle of coke and be reduced, after melting 3.5h, obtain respectively flue gas, thick slag and first part's blister copper; Adopt dust arrester installation to collect flue gas, flue gas obtains flue dust after abundant precipitation, and the flue dust obtaining is back in batch bin, upper, uses while once preparing burden; Thick slag is proceeded in electrothermal front bed, after 1250 ℃ of insulation clarification 7h, through natural separation, be met slag, matte and the second section blister copper of emission request, from top slag blanket relief outlet, discharge slag, from row's copper mouth of bottom, obtain second section blister copper, then the first part's blister copper making in smelting furnace and the second section blister copper merging that makes are obtained to total blister copper herein; By charging machine, described total blister copper is proceeded to reverberatory furnace, fusing at 1300 ℃, the oxidation of ventilating obtains cupric oxide, add silica slag making and manually will remain slag and claw from reverberatory furnace, the surplus slag of realization is separated with cupric oxide, then add the abundant reductive copper oxide of diesel oil, pine tree and charcoal, after reverberatory smelting 19.5h, obtain anode copper; Described anode copper is proceeded in electrolyzer, take described anode copper as anode, electrolytic copper foil be negative electrode, in the acid electrolyte of sulfur acid copper, fully electrolysis makes electrolytic copper, and wherein each parameter setting of electrolyzer is as follows: 65 ℃ of temperature, bath voltage 0.3V, current density 200A/m
2, sulfuric acid concentration 150g/L in electrolytic solution cupric concentration 45g/L, electrolytic solution; In embodiment, prepared blister copper, anode copper and electrolytic copper are respectively 94%, 98.6% and 99.95% containing copper grade in 4.
Embodiment 5:
By rotary conveyor, parts by weight are respectively to 105,35 and 5 copper ore concentrates, iron slag and lime and are transported to respectively in mixing pan, after fully pulverizing, mix, obtain initial material; This initial material is proceeded in apparatus for making pearl ball, each material is bonded together equably, make the spheroidal particle that diameter is 40mm; By rotary conveyor, spheroidal particle is transported in smelting furnace, after dehydrating, carbonate in spheroidal particle, sulphate decomposition, further, in the high-temperature zone of smelting furnace at 1350 ℃, due to the various material meltings of the incomplete combustion spheroidal particle of coke and be reduced, after melting 3h, obtain respectively flue gas, thick slag and first part's blister copper; Adopt dust arrester installation to collect flue gas, flue gas obtains flue dust after abundant precipitation, and the flue dust obtaining is back in batch bin, upper, uses while once preparing burden; Thick slag is proceeded in electrothermal front bed, after 1250 ℃ of insulation clarification 8h, through natural separation, be met slag, matte and the second section blister copper of emission request, from top slag blanket relief outlet, discharge slag, from row's copper mouth of bottom, obtain second section blister copper, then the first part's blister copper making in smelting furnace and the second section blister copper merging that makes are obtained to total blister copper herein; By charging machine, described total blister copper is proceeded to reverberatory furnace, fusing at 1300 ℃, the oxidation of ventilating obtains cupric oxide, add silica slag making and manually will remain slag and claw from reverberatory furnace, the surplus slag of realization is separated with cupric oxide, then add the abundant reductive copper oxide of diesel oil, pine tree and charcoal, after reverberatory smelting 20h, obtain anode copper; Described anode copper is proceeded in electrolyzer, take described anode copper as anode, electrolytic copper foil be negative electrode, in the acid electrolyte of sulfur acid copper, fully electrolysis makes electrolytic copper, and wherein each parameter setting of electrolyzer is as follows: 58 ℃ of temperature, bath voltage 0.25V, current density 240A/m
2, sulfuric acid concentration 180g/L in electrolytic solution cupric concentration 42g/L, electrolytic solution; In embodiment, prepared blister copper, anode copper and electrolytic copper are respectively 90%, 98.5% and 99.95% containing copper grade in 5.
Embodiment 6:
By rotary conveyor, parts by weight are respectively to the flue dust obtaining in dust arrester installation in 95,45,1 and 10 copper ore concentrates, iron slag, lime and embodiment 1 and are transported to respectively in mixing pan, after fully pulverizing, mix, obtain initial material; This initial material is proceeded in apparatus for making pearl ball, each material is bonded together equably, make the spheroidal particle that diameter is 35mm; By rotary conveyor, spheroidal particle is transported in smelting furnace, after dehydrating, carbonate in spheroidal particle, sulphate decomposition, further, in the high-temperature zone of smelting furnace at 1400 ℃, due to the various material meltings of the incomplete combustion spheroidal particle of coke and be reduced, after melting 3h, obtain respectively flue gas, thick slag and first part's blister copper; Adopt dust arrester installation to collect flue gas, flue gas obtains flue dust after abundant precipitation, and the flue dust obtaining is back in batch bin, upper, uses while once preparing burden; Thick slag is proceeded in electrothermal front bed, after 1250 ℃ of insulation clarification 7.5h, through natural separation, be met slag, matte and the second section blister copper of emission request, from top slag blanket relief outlet, discharge slag, from row's copper mouth of bottom, obtain second section blister copper, then the first part's blister copper making in smelting furnace and the second section blister copper merging that makes are obtained to total blister copper herein; By charging machine, described total blister copper is proceeded to reverberatory furnace, fusing at 1350 ℃, the oxidation of ventilating obtains cupric oxide, add silica slag making and manually will remain slag and claw from reverberatory furnace, the surplus slag of realization is separated with cupric oxide, then add the abundant reductive copper oxide of diesel oil, pine tree and charcoal, after reverberatory smelting 19h, obtain anode copper; Described anode copper is proceeded in electrolyzer, take described anode copper as anode, electrolytic copper foil be negative electrode, in the acid electrolyte of sulfur acid copper, fully electrolysis makes electrolytic copper, and wherein each parameter setting of electrolyzer is as follows: temperature 60 C, bath voltage 0.2V, current density 210A/m
2, sulfuric acid concentration 180g/L in electrolytic solution cupric concentration 42g/L, electrolytic solution; In embodiment, prepared blister copper, anode copper and electrolytic copper are respectively 92%, 98.6% and 99.95% containing copper grade in 6.