Detailed description of the invention
Be described below in detail embodiments of the invention, the example of described embodiment is shown in the drawings, and wherein same or similar label represents same or similar element or has element that is identical or similar functions from start to finish.Be exemplary below by the embodiment be described with reference to the drawings, be intended to for explaining the present invention, and can not limitation of the present invention be interpreted as.
In describing the invention, it will be appreciated that, term " " center ", " longitudinal direction ", " transverse direction ", " length ", " width ", " thickness ", " on ", D score, " front ", " afterwards ", " left side ", " right side ", " vertically ", " level ", " top ", " end ", " interior ", " outward ", " clockwise ", " counterclockwise ", " axis ", " radial direction ", orientation or the position relationship of the instruction such as " circumference " are based on orientation shown in the drawings or position relationship, only the present invention for convenience of description and simplified characterization, instead of indicate or imply that the device of indication or element must have specific orientation, with specific azimuth configuration and operation, therefore limitation of the present invention can not be interpreted as.
In addition, term " first ", " second " only for describing object, and can not be interpreted as instruction or hint relative importance or imply the quantity indicating indicated technical characteristic.Thus, be limited with " first ", the feature of " second " can express or impliedly comprise at least one this feature.In describing the invention, the implication of " multiple " is at least two, such as two, three etc., unless otherwise expressly limited specifically.
In the present invention, unless otherwise clearly defined and limited, the term such as term " installation ", " being connected ", " connection ", " fixing " should be interpreted broadly, and such as, can be fixedly connected with, also can be removably connect, or integral; Can be mechanical connection, also can be electrical connection; Can be directly be connected, also indirectly can be connected by intermediary, can be the connection of two element internals or the interaction relationship of two elements, unless otherwise clear and definite restriction.For the ordinary skill in the art, above-mentioned term concrete meaning in the present invention can be understood as the case may be.
In the present invention, unless otherwise clearly defined and limited, fisrt feature second feature " on " or D score can be that the first and second features directly contact, or the first and second features are by intermediary mediate contact.And, fisrt feature second feature " on ", " top " and " above " but fisrt feature directly over second feature or oblique upper, or only represent that fisrt feature level height is higher than second feature.Fisrt feature second feature " under ", " below " and " below " can be fisrt feature immediately below second feature or tiltedly below, or only represent that fisrt feature level height is less than second feature.
In one aspect of the invention, the present invention proposes a kind of method utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder.According to embodiments of the invention, the method comprises: lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive are carried out mixed pelletizing by (1), to obtain mixing pelletizing; (2) described mixing pelletizing is carried out reduce-melt divisional processing, to obtain nickel-containing molten iron and tailings; (3) described nickel-containing molten iron is carried out pelletization treatment, to obtain dilval particle; (4) described dilval particle is contacted with carbon monoxide, so that the gaseous mixture obtained containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide and iron powder; (5) the described gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is carried out purification processes, to obtain gaseous state carbonyl nickel and the first carbon monoxide; And described gaseous state carbonyl nickel is carried out resolution process by (6), to obtain carbonyl nickel powder and the second carbon monoxide respectively.Inventor finds, adopt lateritic nickel ore as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, although the grade of nickel is lower in lateritic nickel ore, but adopt method of the present invention still can prepare highly purified carbonyl nickel powder, thus while widening raw material sources, reduce the production cost of carbonyl nickel powder, simultaneously by adopting sulphur coal as reducing agent, the nickel that not only can effectively reduce in lateritic nickel ore, ferriferous oxide, and sulphur can be made to enter containing activated ni in ferronickel molten iron by molten divisional processing, namely highly active dilval particle is obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shorten technological process, secondly by granulating to gained nickel-containing molten iron, the contact area of itself and carbon monoxide can be significantly improved, thus improve carbonyls synthetic ratio further, adopt cheap sulphur coal as reducing agent in addition, not only effectively can reduce production cost, and sulphur wherein can be made to be applied in carbonyls building-up process as beneficiating ingredient, and in carbonyls building-up process, do not produce gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing, atmosphere pollution can not be caused.
The method utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder below with reference to Fig. 1-3 pairs of embodiment of the present invention is described in detail.According to embodiments of the invention, the method comprises:
S100: lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive are carried out mixed pelletizing
According to embodiments of the invention, lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive are carried out mixed pelletizing, thus can obtain mixing pelletizing.Inventor finds, adopt lateritic nickel ore as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, although the grade of nickel is lower in lateritic nickel ore, but adopt method of the present invention still can prepare highly purified carbonyl nickel powder (nickel content is higher than more than 99%), thus while widening raw material sources, reduce the production cost of carbonyl nickel powder, and iron content is up to 85 ~ 99wt% in gained iron powder, simultaneously by adopting sulphur coal as reducing agent, the nickel that not only can effectively reduce in lateritic nickel ore, ferriferous oxide, and highly active dilval particle can be obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shorten technological process, high sulfur coal resource rich reserves in addition, but the environmental problems such as serious sulphur pollution and acid rain can be caused due to it and be difficult to be effectively utilized, and the present invention adopts sulphur coal as reducing agent, not only effectively can reduce production cost, and sulphur coal does not need through desulfur technology process, sulphur wherein can be made on the contrary to be applied in carbonyls building-up process as beneficiating ingredient, and in carbonyls building-up process, do not produce gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing, atmosphere pollution can not be caused.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the mixed proportion of lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive is also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive can be that 100:5 ~ 25:3 ~ 15 mix according to mass ratio.Inventor finds, if the addition of sulphur coal is too low, then affect the reduction effect of metallized pellet on the one hand, on the other hand, the sulfur content of dilval particle can be caused low and affect its carbonylation activity, be unfavorable for that carbongl group synthesis reaction carries out, if and the addition of sulphur coal is too high, final products technical indicator can not be improved, and high sulfur coal resource can be caused to waste, improve production cost, and the consumption of additive is intended to the reduction of nickel in auxiliary lateritic nickel ore, finds that too high or too low consumption all can reduce the reduction effect of nickel in test.Concrete, before lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive are mixed, in advance lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive are pulverized.
According to still a further embodiment, nickel content in lateritic nickel ore is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in lateritic nickel ore, nickel content is 0.5 ~ 3.0wt%.Thus, in order to obtain highly purified carbonyl nickel powder in existing synthesis technique, usually the nickel minerals adopting nickeliferous content higher is needed, cause raw material production cost higher, not easily purchase, and in centering nickel minerals of the present invention, nickel grade requirement threshold is lower, adopts nickel content to be only the lateritic nickel ore of 0.5 ~ 3.0wt% as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, highly purified carbonyl nickel powder can be prepared, thus significantly reduce cost of material while widening nickel raw material sources.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, the sulfur content in sulphur coal is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, high-sulfur sulfur content of coal can higher than 3wt%.Inventor finds, adopt the sulphur coal of the type can prepare highly active dilval particle, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shortens technological process.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, the particular type of additive is also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, additive can for being selected from least one in alkali metal oxide, alkali metal salt, alkaline earth oxide and alkali salt.Inventor finds, in the reduction process of lateritic nickel ore, such additive can displace NiO from forsterite or fayalite, to improve the activity of NiO, thus significantly reduce reducing and smelting temperature, the reducing condition of lateritic nickel ore is greatly improved, promotes that reduction reaction is carried out.
S200: mixing pelletizing is carried out reducing-melt divisional processing
According to embodiments of the invention, mixing pelletizing is carried out reducing-melt divisional processing, thus nickel-containing molten iron and tailings can be obtained.Inventor finds, sulphur can be made to enter activated ni in nickel-containing molten iron by molten divisional processing, namely highly active dilval particle is obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shortens technological process.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the combined apparatus of reduction apparatus and molten separating device can be adopted to carry out the reduction of mixing pelletizing-molten divisional processing, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, reduction apparatus can for being selected from least one in rotary hearth furnace, rotary kiln, car-bottom furnace and tunnel cave, molten separating device can divide stove for electric arc furnaces, mineral hot furnace and non-electric smelting, and such as non-electric smelting divides stove can be the molten point stove of natural gas, the molten point stove of coal gas or the molten point stove of fuel oil.Thus, sulphur can be made to enter activated ni in nickel-containing molten iron, namely obtain highly active dilval particle.It should be noted that, those skilled in the art can select the condition of reduction and molten divisional processing according to actual needs.
According to still a further embodiment, nickel content in nickel-containing molten iron is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in nickel-containing molten iron, nickel content can be 5 ~ 45wt%.Inventor finds, in order to obtain highly purified carbonyl nickel powder in existing carbonyl nickel synthesis technique, usually need to adopt nickel content more than the corronil of 50wt% or high-purity nickel oxide, cause raw material production cost higher, not easily purchase, and the present invention is lower to nickel grade requirement threshold in raw material, nickel content is adopted to be only the synthesis material of dilval particle as carbonyl nickel powder of 5 ~ 45wt%, highly purified carbonyl nickel powder can be prepared, thus significantly reduce cost of material while widening nickel raw material sources.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, sulfur content in dilval particle is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in dilval particle, sulfur content can be 2 ~ 5wt%.Inventor finds, in nickel-containing alloys particle, sulfur content is higher, make nickel activity in gained dilval particle higher, thus be more conducive to carrying out fast of carbonyl nickel synthetic reaction, and carbonyl nickel synthetic ratio is also higher, comparatively prior art adds gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing and compares as catalyst in carbonyl nickel synthesis step, the present invention does not need additionally to add catalyst, thus shorten preparation technology's flow process, but dilval particle sulfur content is too high, to nickel activity improve not obvious, in addition, excessive sulfur content can improve coal blending amount accordingly, the content of nickel in dilval can be reduced on the one hand, also the waste of feed coal can be caused on the other hand.
S300: nickel-containing molten iron is carried out pelletization treatment
According to embodiments of the invention, above-mentioned gained nickel-containing molten iron is carried out pelletization treatment, thus obtains dilval particle.Inventor finds, by granulating to gained nickel-containing molten iron, thus can significantly improve the contact area with carbon monoxide, and then improves carbonyls synthetic ratio further.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, dilval grain graininess is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, the particle diameter of dilval particle is not more than 0.5 millimeter.Inventor finds, the dilval activity of this particle size range is higher, and comparatively large with carbon monoxide contact area in carbonyl nickel synthetic process, thus can significantly improve the synthetic ratio of carbonyl nickel.
S400: dilval particle is contacted with carbon monoxide
According to embodiments of the invention, by dilval particle and carbon monoxide counter current contacting, thus iron powder and the gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide can be obtained.Inventor finds, adopt highly active dilval particle directly to contact with carbon monoxide and can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shortens technological process.
According to one embodiment of present invention, dilval particle and reaction of carbon monoxide condition are also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, dilval particle contacts with carbon monoxide and can carry out 24 ~ 48 hours under the condition of 100 ~ 200 degrees Celsius and 5 ~ 15MPa.Thus, the synthetic ratio of carbonyl nickel can be significantly improved.
According to still a further embodiment, dilval particle and reaction of carbon monoxide carry out in carbonylation synthesis device, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in carbonylation synthesis device, the volume content of carbon monoxide is not less than 90%.Inventor finds, generating the reaction of carbonyls is reversible reaction, and adds the chemical balance that excessive carbon monoxide makes to react and move to the direction generating carbonyls, thus improves carbonyls synthetic ratio further.
S500: the gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is carried out purification processes
According to embodiments of the invention, the gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is carried out purification processes, thus gaseous state carbonyl nickel and the first carbon monoxide can be obtained.Thus, the purity of follow-up gained carbonyl nickel powder can be significantly improved.In this step, concrete, first the gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is carried out condensation process, the carbonyl nickel in gaseous mixture and carbonyl iron condensation is made to become liquid, carbon monoxide wherein then exists in gaseous form, then rectification process is carried out to the liquefied mixture that gained contains carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron, thus can be separated and obtain highly purified gaseous state carbonyl nickel.It should be noted that, those skilled in the art can select the concrete operations condition of adopted condensation and rectifying according to actual needs.
S600: gaseous state carbonyl nickel is carried out resolution process
According to embodiments of the invention, gaseous state carbonyl nickel is carried out resolution process, thus carbonyl nickel powder and the second carbon monoxide can be obtained respectively.Concrete, carbonyl nickel is unstable, can be decomposed into rapidly carbonyl nickel powder and carbon monoxide, thus can obtain highly purified carbonyl nickel powder nickel when heating.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the condition of resolution process is also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, resolution process can be carried out under the condition of 230 ~ 300 degrees Celsius and 0.01 ~ 0.05MPa.Inventor finds, this decomposition condition significantly can be better than the decomposition efficiency that other improve carbonyl nickel, thus can obtain the purity of carbonyl nickel powder.
The method utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder according to the embodiment of the present invention adopts lateritic nickel ore as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, although the grade of nickel is lower in lateritic nickel ore, but adopt method of the present invention still can prepare highly purified carbonyl nickel powder, thus while widening raw material sources, reduce the production cost of carbonyl nickel powder, simultaneously by adopting sulphur coal as reducing agent, the nickel that not only can effectively reduce in lateritic nickel ore, ferriferous oxide, and sulphur can be made to enter containing activated ni in ferronickel molten iron by molten divisional processing, namely highly active dilval particle is obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shorten technological process, secondly by granulating to gained nickel-containing molten iron, the contact area of itself and carbon monoxide can be significantly improved, thus improve carbonyls synthetic ratio further, adopt cheap sulphur coal as reducing agent in addition, not only effectively can reduce production cost, and sulphur wherein can be made to be applied in carbonyls building-up process as beneficiating ingredient, and in carbonyls building-up process, do not produce gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing, atmosphere pollution can not be caused.
With reference to figure 2, the method utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder according to the embodiment of the present invention comprises further:
S700: the first carbon monoxide is returned S400 and dilval particle contacts.
According to embodiments of the invention, purification processes gained first carbon monoxide is back to S400 and dilval particle contacts, thus carbon monoxide cycle utilization rate can be significantly improved.
With reference to figure 3, the method utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder according to the embodiment of the present invention comprises further:
S800: the second carbon monoxide is returned S400 and dilval particle contacts
According to embodiments of the invention, resolution process gained second carbon monoxide is back to S400 and dilval particle contacts, thus improves carbon monoxide cycle utilization rate further.
In another aspect of the present invention, the present invention proposes a kind of system utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder.According to embodiments of the invention, this system comprises: mixed pelletizing device, described mixed pelletizing device has lateritic nickel ore entrance, sulphur coal entrance, additive entrance and the outlet of mixing pelletizing, and is suitable for lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive to carry out mixed pelletizing, to obtain mixing pelletizing; Reduction-molten separating device, described reduction-molten separating device has mixing pelletizing entrance, nickel-containing molten iron outlet and tailings outlet, described mixing pelletizing entrance is connected with the outlet of described mixing pelletizing, and be suitable for described mixing pelletizing to carry out reducing-melt divisional processing, to obtain nickel-containing molten iron and tailings; Granulation device, described granulation device has nickel-containing molten iron entrance and dilval particle outlet, and described nickel-containing molten iron entrance exports with described nickel-containing molten iron and is connected, and is suitable for described nickel-containing molten iron to carry out pelletization treatment, to obtain dilval particle; Carbonylation synthesis device, described carbonylation synthesis device has carbon monoxide inlet, dilval particle entrance and gaseous state mixture outlet, described dilval particle entrance is connected with described dilval particle outlet, and be suitable for described dilval particle being contacted with carbon monoxide, so that the gaseous mixture obtained containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide and iron powder; Purifying plant, described purifying plant has gaseous mixture entrance, the outlet of gaseous state carbonyl nickel and the first carbon monoxide and exports described gaseous mixture entrance and to export with described gaseous mixture and be connected, and be suitable for the described gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide to carry out purification processes, to obtain gaseous state carbonyl nickel and the first carbon monoxide; And decomposer, described decomposer has gaseous state carbonyl nickel entrance, carbonyl nickel powder outlet and the outlet of the second carbon monoxide, described gaseous state carbonyl nickel entrance is connected with described gaseous state carbonyl nickel outlet, and be suitable for described gaseous state carbonyl nickel to carry out resolution process, to obtain carbonyl nickel powder and the second carbon monoxide respectively.Inventor finds, adopt lateritic nickel ore as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, although the grade of nickel is lower in lateritic nickel ore, but adopt system of the present invention still can prepare highly purified carbonyl nickel powder, thus while widening raw material sources, reduce the production cost of carbonyl nickel powder, simultaneously by adopting sulphur coal as reducing agent, the nickel that not only can effectively reduce in lateritic nickel ore, ferriferous oxide, and sulphur can be made to enter containing activated ni in ferronickel molten iron by molten divisional processing, namely highly active dilval particle is obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shorten technological process, secondly by granulating to gained nickel-containing molten iron, the contact area of itself and carbon monoxide can be significantly improved, thus improve carbonyls synthetic ratio further, adopt cheap sulphur coal as reducing agent in addition, not only effectively can reduce production cost, and sulphur wherein can be made to be applied in carbonyls building-up process as beneficiating ingredient, and in carbonyls building-up process, do not produce gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing, atmosphere pollution can not be caused.
The system utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder below with reference to Fig. 4-6 pairs of embodiment of the present invention is described in detail.According to embodiments of the invention, this system comprises:
Mixed pelletizing device 100: according to embodiments of the invention, mixed pelletizing device 100 has lateritic nickel ore entrance 101, sulphur coal entrance 102, additive entrance 103 and mixing pelletizing outlet 104, and be suitable for lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive to carry out mixed pelletizing, thus can obtain mixing pelletizing.Inventor finds, adopt lateritic nickel ore as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, although the grade of nickel is lower in lateritic nickel ore, but adopt system of the present invention still can prepare highly purified carbonyl nickel powder (nickel content is higher than more than 99%), thus while widening raw material sources, reduce the production cost of carbonyl nickel powder, and iron content is up to 85 ~ 99wt% in gained iron powder, simultaneously by adopting sulphur coal as reducing agent, the nickel that not only can effectively reduce in lateritic nickel ore, ferriferous oxide, and highly active dilval particle can be obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shorten technological process, high sulfur coal resource rich reserves in addition, but the environmental problems such as serious sulphur pollution and acid rain can be caused due to it and be difficult to be effectively utilized, and the present invention adopts sulphur coal as reducing agent, not only effectively can reduce production cost, and sulphur coal does not need through desulfur technology process, sulphur wherein can be made on the contrary to be applied in carbonyls building-up process as beneficiating ingredient, and in carbonyls building-up process, do not produce gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing, atmosphere pollution can not be caused.Concrete, the mixed pelletizing device adopted in the present invention can be the combined apparatus of mixing arrangement and palletizing device.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the mixed proportion of lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive is also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive can be that 100:5 ~ 25:3 ~ 15 mix according to mass ratio.Inventor finds, if the addition of sulphur coal is too low, then affect the reduction effect of metallized pellet on the one hand, on the other hand, the sulfur content of dilval particle can be caused low and affect its carbonylation activity, be unfavorable for that carbongl group synthesis reaction carries out, if and the addition of sulphur coal is too high, final products technical indicator can not be improved, and high sulfur coal resource can be caused to waste, improve production cost, and the consumption of additive is intended to the reduction of nickel in auxiliary lateritic nickel ore, finds that too high or too low consumption all can reduce the reduction effect of nickel in test.Concrete, before lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive are mixed, in advance lateritic nickel ore, sulphur coal and additive are pulverized.
According to still a further embodiment, nickel content in lateritic nickel ore is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in lateritic nickel ore, nickel content is 0.5 ~ 3.0wt%.Thus, in order to obtain highly purified carbonyl nickel powder in existing synthesis technique, usually the nickel minerals adopting nickeliferous content higher is needed, cause raw material production cost higher, not easily purchase, and in centering nickel minerals of the present invention, nickel grade requirement threshold is lower, adopts nickel content to be only the lateritic nickel ore of 0.5 ~ 3.0wt% as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, highly purified carbonyl nickel powder can be prepared, thus significantly reduce cost of material while widening nickel raw material sources.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, the sulfur content in sulphur coal is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, high-sulfur sulfur content of coal can higher than 3wt%.Inventor finds, adopt the sulphur coal of the type can prepare highly active dilval particle, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shortens technological process.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, the particular type of additive is also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, additive can for being selected from least one in alkali metal oxide, alkali metal salt, alkaline earth oxide and alkali salt.Inventor finds, in the reduction process of lateritic nickel ore, such additive can displace NiO from forsterite or fayalite, to improve the activity of NiO, thus significantly reduce reducing and smelting temperature, the reducing condition of lateritic nickel ore is greatly improved, promotes that reduction reaction is carried out.
Reduction-molten separating device 200: according to embodiments of the invention, reduction-molten separating device 200 has mixing pelletizing entrance 201, nickel-containing molten iron outlet 202 and tailings outlet 203, mixing pelletizing entrance 201 is connected with mixing pelletizing outlet 104, and be suitable for mixing pelletizing to carry out reducing-melt divisional processing, thus nickel-containing molten iron and tailings can be obtained.Inventor finds, sulphur can be made to enter activated ni in nickel-containing molten iron by molten divisional processing, namely highly active dilval particle is obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shortens technological process.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the combined apparatus of reduction apparatus and molten separating device can be adopted to carry out the reduction of mixing pelletizing-molten divisional processing, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, reduction apparatus can for being selected from least one in rotary hearth furnace, rotary kiln, car-bottom furnace and tunnel cave, molten separating device can divide stove for electric arc furnaces, mineral hot furnace and non-electric smelting, and such as non-electric smelting divides stove can be the molten point stove of natural gas, the molten point stove of coal gas or the molten point stove of fuel oil.Thus, sulphur can be made to enter activated ni in nickel-containing molten iron, namely obtain highly active dilval particle.It should be noted that, those skilled in the art can select the condition of reduction and molten divisional processing according to actual needs.
According to still a further embodiment, nickel content in nickel-containing molten iron is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in nickel-containing molten iron, nickel content can be 5 ~ 45wt%.Inventor finds, in order to obtain highly purified carbonyl nickel powder in existing carbonyl nickel synthesis technique, usually need to adopt nickel content more than the corronil of 50wt% or high-purity nickel oxide, cause raw material production cost higher, not easily purchase, and the present invention is lower to nickel grade requirement threshold in raw material, nickel content is adopted to be only the synthesis material of dilval particle as carbonyl nickel powder of 5 ~ 45wt%, highly purified carbonyl nickel powder can be prepared, thus significantly reduce cost of material while widening nickel raw material sources.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, sulfur content in dilval particle is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in dilval particle, sulfur content can be 2 ~ 5wt%.Inventor finds, in nickel-containing alloys particle, sulfur content is higher, make nickel activity in gained dilval particle higher, thus be more conducive to carrying out fast of carbonyl nickel synthetic reaction, and carbonyl nickel synthetic ratio is also higher, comparatively prior art adds gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing and compares as catalyst in carbonyl nickel synthesis step, the present invention does not need additionally to add catalyst, thus shorten preparation technology's flow process, but dilval particle sulfur content is too high, to nickel activity improve not obvious, in addition, excessive sulfur content can improve coal blending amount accordingly, the content of nickel in dilval can be reduced on the one hand, also the waste of feed coal can be caused on the other hand.
Granulation device 300: according to embodiments of the invention, granulation device 300 has nickel-containing molten iron entrance 301 and dilval particle outlet 302, nickel-containing molten iron entrance 301 and nickel-containing molten iron export 202 and are connected, and be suitable for above-mentioned gained nickel-containing molten iron to carry out pelletization treatment, thus obtain dilval particle.Inventor finds, by granulating to gained nickel-containing molten iron, thus can significantly improve the contact area with carbon monoxide, and then improves carbonyls synthetic ratio further.
According to still another embodiment of the invention, dilval grain graininess is also not particularly limited, and those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, the particle diameter of dilval particle is not more than 0.5 millimeter.Inventor finds, the dilval activity of this particle size range is higher, and comparatively large with carbon monoxide contact area in carbonyl nickel synthetic process, thus can significantly improve the synthetic ratio of carbonyl nickel.
Carbonylation synthesis device 400: according to embodiments of the invention, carbonylation synthesis device 400 has carbon monoxide inlet 401, dilval particle entrance 402, gaseous mixture outlet 403 and iron powder outlet 404, dilval particle entrance 402 is connected with dilval particle outlet 302, and be suitable for dilval particle and carbon monoxide counter current contacting, thus iron powder and the gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide can be obtained.Inventor finds, adopt highly active dilval particle directly to contact with carbon monoxide and can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shortens technological process.
According to one embodiment of present invention, dilval particle and reaction of carbon monoxide condition are also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, dilval particle contacts with carbon monoxide and can carry out 24 ~ 48 hours under the condition of 100 ~ 200 degrees Celsius and 5 ~ 15MPa.Thus, the synthetic ratio of carbonyl nickel can be significantly improved.
According to still a further embodiment, dilval particle and reaction of carbon monoxide carry out in carbonylation synthesis device, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, in carbonylation synthesis device, the volume content of carbon monoxide is not less than 90%.Inventor finds, generating the reaction of carbonyls is reversible reaction, and adds the chemical balance that excessive carbon monoxide makes to react and move to the direction generating carbonyls, thus improves carbonyls synthetic ratio further.
Purifying plant 500: according to embodiments of the invention, purifying plant 500 has gaseous mixture entrance 501, gaseous state carbonyl nickel outlet 502 and the first carbon monoxide outlet 503, gaseous mixture entrance 501 and gaseous mixture export 403 and are connected, and be suitable for the gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide to carry out purification processes, thus gaseous state carbonyl nickel and the first carbon monoxide can be obtained.Thus, the purity of follow-up gained carbonyl nickel powder can be significantly improved.In this step, concrete, first the gaseous mixture containing carbonyl nickel, carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is carried out condensation process, the carbonyl nickel in gaseous mixture and carbonyl iron condensation is made to become liquid, carbon monoxide wherein then exists in gaseous form, then rectification process is carried out to the liquefied mixture that gained contains carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron, thus can be separated and obtain highly purified gaseous state carbonyl nickel.It should be noted that, those skilled in the art can select the concrete operations condition of adopted condensation and rectifying according to actual needs.
Decomposer 600: according to embodiments of the invention, decomposer 600 has gaseous state carbonyl nickel entrance 601, dilval outlet 602 and the second carbon monoxide outlet 603, gaseous state carbonyl nickel entrance 601 is connected with gaseous state carbonyl nickel outlet 502, and be suitable for gaseous state carbonyl nickel to carry out resolution process, thus carbonyl nickel powder and carbon monoxide can be obtained respectively.Concrete, carbonyl nickel is unstable, can be decomposed into rapidly carbonyl nickel powder and carbon monoxide, thus can obtain highly purified carbonyl nickel powder nickel when heating.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the condition of resolution process is also not particularly limited, those skilled in the art can select according to actual needs, and according to a particular embodiment of the invention, resolution process can be carried out under the condition of 230 ~ 300 degrees Celsius and 0.01 ~ 0.05MPa.Inventor finds, this decomposition condition significantly can be better than the decomposition efficiency that other improve carbonyl nickel, thus can obtain the purity of carbonyl nickel powder.
The system utilizing lateritic nickel ore to prepare carbonyl nickel powder according to the embodiment of the present invention adopts lateritic nickel ore as the raw material preparing carbonyl nickel powder, although the grade of nickel is lower in lateritic nickel ore, but adopt system of the present invention still can prepare highly purified carbonyl nickel powder, thus while widening raw material sources, reduce the production cost of carbonyl nickel powder, simultaneously by adopting sulphur coal as reducing agent, the nickel that not only can effectively reduce in lateritic nickel ore, ferriferous oxide, and sulphur can be made to enter containing activated ni in ferronickel molten iron by molten divisional processing, namely highly active dilval particle is obtained, thus itself and carbon monoxide are directly contacted can react generation carbonyls, and carbonyls synthetic ratio is higher, compared with prior art, the present invention does not need to add catalyst in carbonyls building-up process, thus shorten technological process, secondly by granulating to gained nickel-containing molten iron, the contact area of itself and carbon monoxide can be significantly improved, thus improve carbonyls synthetic ratio further, adopt cheap sulphur coal as reducing agent in addition, not only effectively can reduce production cost, and sulphur wherein can be made to be applied in carbonyls building-up process as beneficiating ingredient, and in carbonyls building-up process, do not produce gaseous state sulfur-bearing thing, atmosphere pollution can not be caused.
With reference to figure 5, according to one embodiment of present invention, first carbon monoxide outlet 503 is connected with carbon monoxide inlet 401, and be suitable for purifying plant 500 gained first carbon monoxide being back to carbonylation synthesis device 400 and dilval particle contacts, thus carbon monoxide cycle utilization rate can be significantly improved.
With reference to figure 6, according to still a further embodiment, second carbon monoxide outlet 603 is connected with carbon monoxide inlet 401, and be suitable for decomposer 600 gained second carbon monoxide being back to carbonylation synthesis device 300 and dilval particle contacts, thus carbon monoxide cycle utilization rate can be significantly improved.
Below with reference to specific embodiment, present invention is described, it should be noted that, these embodiments are only descriptive, and do not limit the present invention in any way.
Embodiment 1
Get the lateritic nickel ore of composition shown in table 1, allocate the sulphur coal that sulfur content is 3.5% into, ball processed after lime stone mixing is also dried, wherein, lateritic nickel ore, the mixing quality ratio of sulphur coal and lime stone is 100:15:10, dried mixing pelletizing is distributed into rotary hearth furnace and reduces, reducing condition 1300 DEG C, time 35min, the direct heat of metallized pellet after reduction delivers to the molten point stove of combustion gas, molten point temperature is 1550 DEG C, obtain nickel-containing molten iron (composition is as shown in table 2), then gained nickel-containing molten iron is made in pellet fabrication device the dilval particle that average grain diameter is 0.25mm, and carry out stored dry as carbonyl material, then in carbonyl reaction device, dilval particle and CO counter current contacting generation oxonation are generated containing carbonyl nickel, the gaseous mixture of carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide, carbonylation conditions is: pressure 7.5MPa, temperature 185 DEG C, time 35h, CO gas concentration 90.5%, will containing carbonyl nickel, the gaseous mixture of carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is delivered in condenser and carries out condensation process, wherein carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron are condensed into liquid state, and carbon monoxide exists in a gaseous form, and separating obtained carbon monoxide is returned continuation use in carbonyl reaction device, and liquefied mixture gained being contained carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron is sent into rectifying column again and is carried out rectifying and obtain high-purity gaseous state carbonyl nickel, finally gaseous state carbonyl nickel is sent into decomposer to carry out decomposing and obtain carbon monoxide and nickel content is the carbonyl nickel powder of 99.82wt%, wherein in carbonyl nickel powder, major impurity is C and Fe, and decomposition gained carbon monoxide is returned continuation use in carbonyl reaction device.
Embodiment 2
Get the lateritic nickel ore of composition shown in table 1, allocate the sulphur coal that sulfur content is 4.5% into, ball processed after sodium carbonate mixing is also dried, wherein, lateritic nickel ore, the mixing quality ratio of sulphur coal and sodium carbonate is 100:10:15, dried mixing pelletizing is distributed into rotary kiln and reduces, reducing condition 900 DEG C, time 65min, the direct heat of metallized pellet after reduction delivers to molten point of electric furnace, molten point temperature is 1550 DEG C, obtain nickel-containing molten iron (composition is as shown in table 2), then gained nickel-containing molten iron is made in pellet fabrication device the dilval particle that average grain diameter is 0.15mm, and carry out stored dry as carbonyl material, then in carbonyl reaction device, dilval particle and CO counter current contacting generation oxonation are generated containing carbonyl nickel, the gaseous mixture of carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide, carbonylation conditions is: pressure 12.5MPa, temperature 135 DEG C, time 46h, CO gas concentration 92%, will containing carbonyl nickel, the gaseous mixture of carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is delivered in condenser and carries out condensation process, wherein carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron are condensed into liquid state, and carbon monoxide exists in a gaseous form, and separating obtained carbon monoxide is returned continuation use in carbonyl reaction device, and liquefied mixture gained being contained carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron is sent into rectifying column again and is carried out rectifying and obtain high-purity gaseous state carbonyl nickel, finally gaseous state carbonyl nickel is sent into decomposer to carry out decomposing and obtain carbon monoxide and nickel content is the carbonyl nickel powder of 99.54wt%, wherein in carbonyl nickel powder, major impurity is C and Fe, and decomposition gained carbon monoxide is returned continuation use in carbonyl reaction device.
Embodiment 3
Get the lateritic nickel ore of composition shown in table 1, allocate the sulphur coal that sulfur content is 6% into, ball processed after sodium carbonate mixing is also dried, wherein, lateritic nickel ore, the mixing quality ratio of sulphur coal and sodium carbonate is 100:20:5, dried mixing pelletizing is distributed into tunnel cave and reduces, reducing condition 1220 DEG C, time 40min, the direct heat of metallized pellet after reduction delivers to the molten point stove of combustion gas, molten point temperature is 1550 DEG C, obtain nickel-containing molten iron (composition is as shown in table 2), then gained nickel-containing molten iron is made in pellet fabrication device the dilval particle that average grain diameter is 0.05mm, and carry out stored dry as carbonyl material, then in carbonyl reaction device, dilval particle and CO counter current contacting generation oxonation are generated containing carbonyl nickel, the gaseous mixture of carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide, carbonylation conditions is: pressure 15MPa, temperature 155 DEG C, time 29h, CO gas concentration 90.0%, will containing carbonyl nickel, the gaseous mixture of carbonyl iron and carbon monoxide is delivered in condenser and carries out condensation process, wherein carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron are condensed into liquid state, and carbon monoxide exists in a gaseous form, and separating obtained carbon monoxide is returned continuation use in carbonyl reaction device, and liquefied mixture gained being contained carbonyl nickel and carbonyl iron is sent into rectifying column again and is carried out rectifying and obtain high-purity gaseous state carbonyl nickel, finally gaseous state carbonyl nickel is sent into decomposer to carry out decomposing and obtain carbon monoxide and nickel content is the carbonyl nickel powder of 99.82wt%, wherein in carbonyl nickel powder, major impurity is C and Fe, and decomposition gained carbon monoxide is returned continuation use in carbonyl reaction device.
Table 1 embodiment 1 ~ 3 lateritic nickel ore main component, wt.%
Embodiment |
TFe |
FeO |
CaO |
MgO |
SiO
2 |
Al
2O
3 |
MnO |
Cr
2O
3 |
Ni |
Co |
1 |
16.71 |
0.37 |
0.87 |
20.17 |
36.28 |
3.73 |
1.15 |
1.11 |
1.87 |
0.054 |
2 |
19.34 |
0.34 |
3.80 |
9.66 |
35.19 |
6.09 |
0.55 |
1.51 |
1.78 |
0.063 |
3 |
13.33 |
0.76 |
0.12 |
25.31 |
38.26 |
2.30 |
0.35 |
1.12 |
1.85 |
0.055 |
Table 2 embodiment 1 ~ 3 nickel-containing molten iron composition main component, wt.%
Embodiment |
TFe |
Ni |
Co |
S |
Si |
Cr |
Mn |
P |
C |
1 |
75.99 |
22.57 |
0.93 |
2.53 |
0.01 |
0.06 |
0.01 |
0.051 |
0.05 |
2 |
78.19 |
20.28 |
0.63 |
3.28 |
0.35 |
0.08 |
0.01 |
0.046 |
0.11 |
3 |
73.15 |
24.19 |
0.60 |
4.37 |
0.19 |
0.09 |
0.04 |
0.039 |
0.09 |
In the description of this description, specific features, structure, material or feature that the description of reference term " embodiment ", " some embodiments ", " example ", " concrete example " or " some examples " etc. means to describe in conjunction with this embodiment or example are contained at least one embodiment of the present invention or example.In this manual, to the schematic representation of above-mentioned term not must for be identical embodiment or example.And the specific features of description, structure, material or feature can combine in one or more embodiment in office or example in an appropriate manner.In addition, when not conflicting, the feature of the different embodiment described in this description or example and different embodiment or example can carry out combining and combining by those skilled in the art.
Although illustrate and describe embodiments of the invention above, be understandable that, above-described embodiment is exemplary, can not be interpreted as limitation of the present invention, and those of ordinary skill in the art can change above-described embodiment within the scope of the invention, revises, replace and modification.