EP1029093A1

EP1029093A1 - Method for reprocessing steel slags and ferriferous materials

Info

Publication number: EP1029093A1
Application number: EP99944155A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Alfred Edlinger
Original assignee: Holderbank Financiere Glarus AG
Current assignee: Holcim Ltd
Priority date: 1998-09-15
Filing date: 1999-09-14
Publication date: 2000-08-23
Also published as: AT407051B; AU5720199A; ES2151473T1; US6364929B1; CA2310044A1; ATA155698A; ZA200002582B; WO2000015855A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for reprocessing steel slags and ferriferous materials, e.g. electric furnace slags, converter slags, fine ores, dusts from steel manufacturing, millscale for obtaining pig iron and environmentally safe slags, wherein a molten slag and an iron bath are used at a volume ratio ranging between 0.5:1 and 1.5:1, wherein carboniferous material is introduced in the bath and hot air is blown. A mixed slag is obtained from the initial slags and the ferriferous materials having alkalinity CaO/SiO2 ranging between 1.2 and 2.5 and placed in a hearth type furnace or a ladle, wherein hot air for post-combustion of CO formed from the carbon in the bath is blown with a post-combustion degree of PC = (a) (CO2 + H2O)/(CO + CO2 + H2 + H2O) between 0.70 and 0.85. The hot exhaust gases of the furnace or the ladle are evacuated tangentially to the axis of the mouth of the hot air feeding lance.

Description

Process for processing steel slags and iron beams

The invention relates to a method for working up steel slags and iron supports, e.g. Electric furnace, converter slags, fine ores, dusts from steel production, mill scale for the production of pig iron and environmentally compatible slags.

From WO 96/24696, a process for the production of raw iron or steel and cement clinker from slag has become known, in which liquid slag containing iron oxide, such as steel works slag, was mixed with iron oxide carriers and lime, whereupon a ferrite slag was formed. This ferrite slag was then reduced in a reduction reactor with the formation of an iron bath and a sintering phase with combustion of carbon, whereupon the sintering phase was applied as clinker.

Slags have a relatively low thermal conductivity and about 1.5 to 2 times the heat capacity compared to iron. The achievable heat transfer or the so-called degree of afterburning is essential for the economy of such a method. The degree of afterburning is defined as follows:

Afterburning degree = —2 ^{+ H} 2— gas phase

CO + C02 + H2 + H2θ

The known procedures have so far ensured an inadequate degree of afterburning. Also the

Heat transfer = i- Hg —--— Hb

Hp-c

Hg ... enthalpy of the gas (at gas temperature)

Hb ... enthalpy of the gas (at melting temperature) Hp _C. • combustion enthalpy (at melting temperature) is in the known procedures for an economical. Procedure not sufficient.

Thermal efficiencies of well over 70% are not achieved with conventional blast furnace technologies or with other processes, such as fluidized bed processes. It is already known, for example, to blow pre-reduced and at least partially preheated batches together with coal into a fluidized bed, with coal being gasified in a fluidized bed while reducing the batch, and sponge iron being melted and drawn off. To make matters worse, such meltdown gasification reactions are generally optimized for the desired pig iron discharge, so that an environmentally compatible slag is not formed.

Older proposals by the applicant have already described processes of the type mentioned at the outset for the production of pig iron and environmentally compatible slags, in which molten slag and iron baths are used in a volume ratio between 0.5: 1 and 1.5: 1 and carbon carriers in the bath introduced and hot wind is inflated.

In addition to the processing of steel slags, such as, for example, electric furnace slags, the known processes primarily aimed at the processing of converter slags and, although only optional, oxygen was also blown into the bath. Converter slags and, in particular, LD slags are distinguished from electric furnace slags by a substantially higher basicity CaO / SiO 2 of mostly more than 3, whereas electric furnace slags have a somewhat lower basicity. In view of the different possibilities, as they were shown in the older proposals, the primary aim was to guide the process in a converter and a more or less complex blowing technology was used. In principle, this was older processes are naturally also suitable for use in ovens or pans.

The present invention now aims to improve the known methods for use, in particular with electric furnace slags, and at the same time to find sufficiency with less expenditure on equipment than in accordance with the older proposals. To achieve this object, the method of the type mentioned essentially consists in that a mixed slag with a basicity CaO / SiO 2 between 1.2 and 2.5 is set from the starting slags and iron carriers and this slag is placed in a stove or a pan that hot wind is blown for post-combustion of the CO formed from the bath carbon with a post-combustion degree PC = \ F (C02 + H2θ; CO + Cθ2 + H2 + H2θ) between 0.70 and 0.85 and that the hot exhaust gases from the furnace or The pan is drawn off tangentially to the axis of the mouth of the hot wind feed lance. The use of ovens or pans means that much more cost-effective facilities are used, in which the cost share of refractory delivery is also significantly lower. Taking into account the fact that a higher wear of refractory materials can be accepted without excessive investment, a substantially higher basicity of up to 2.5 is thus considered permissible in the process according to the invention, so that in particular electric furnace slag without lime scale or without any noteworthy Lowering the basicity can be used immediately. At the same time, however, complete control of the waste streams occurring in electric steel plants can now be ensured within the framework of an electric steel plant. In addition to electric furnace slag, ladle slag, dusts, mill scale and furnace breakout material are generated as waste, which can be disposed of or recycled directly using the process according to the invention, at the same time achieving an inexpensive liquid pig iron which is essentially free of trace elements. Because the afterburning in the process according to the invention to values from 0.7 to 0.85 and in particular to values around 0.8 is increased, the control of the method according to the invention is also much simpler, since it is only necessary to ensure the appropriate supply of carbon to the bath and to ensure a corresponding mixing of slag and bath and subsequently the CO dissolved in the slag afterburning high-speed hot wind. A blowing in or blowing oxygen or hot air through the bath can be omitted entirely, so that the equipment can be significantly reduced. In principle, carbon can be supplied via simple lances or floor nozzles, which does not significantly increase the costs for the pan or the oven. Carbon can also be blown into the bath using immersion lances. In a particularly advantageous manner, it is also possible for coarse-grained carbon to be fed directly onto the molten bath from above, it being possible to use a pan which is stirred on the ground. Essential for the efficiency of the afterburning and thus the high heat transfer and the absence of additional heating of the furnace or the pan through external heating measures is also the inventive derivation of the hot exhaust gases of the furnace, which according to the invention are tangential to the axis of the mouth of the hot wind supply lance should. With such a gas guide it is not only possible to achieve the desired degree of afterburning safely, but also to ensure the desired heat transfer, so that a number of wastes from electrical steelworks, as described at the beginning, can be disposed of or recycled economically.

The process according to the invention is advantageously carried out in such a way that additives from the group of fine ores, dusts, mill scale and possibly further fuel are added to the exhaust gases removed in a further external afterburning section and the heated solids are blown onto the slag together with the hot wind. Waste streams from the electrical steelworks can of course also be melted at least partially into this afterburning section, with the degree of afterburning in the furnace or pan setting between 0.7 and 0.85 there is still sufficient chemical energy in the exhaust gases to ensure such effective afterburning outside the furnace or pan. Subsequently or alternatively, the procedure can also be such that the combustion exhaust gases of the afterburning section are conducted via a hot cyclone for separating the possibly liquefied solids and a heat exchanger for heating the hot wind, whereby a particularly high energy yield is achieved.

The partially cold waste streams can advantageously be melted before the task, with the procedure preferably being such that the additives are melted in a melting cyclone and the basic slags, such as e.g. Steel slags or electric furnace slags are added, whereupon the mixed slags are placed in the furnace or pan and the hot 02-containing propellant gases of the melting cyclone are blown onto the slags as a hot wind.

An effective limitation of the afterburning in the furnace or the pan and a corresponding convection with high heat transfer inside the gas space of the furnace or the pan can still be improved in that in the line for the hot exhaust gases of the furnace or the pan against the gas pressure reduced pressure is maintained in the gas space of the oven or pan.

Overall, the method according to the invention primarily gives advantages in connection with the operation of an electrical steel plant, with concentrated zinc or zinc oxide-containing products, which arise from the dust produced, being further refined on site or being passed on directly to metallurgical processors . The strongly basic metallurgical residues and excavation materials, such as furnace excavation material, can be converted into a high-quality clinker substitute and high-quality pig iron by adding inexpensive acidic fine ores. To lower the basicity of the Electric furnace slag or converter slag can also advantageously be used in blast furnace slag.

The invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of an exemplary embodiment.

Electric furnace slag, ladle slag, furnace dust and fine ores of the following compositions were used:

Such materials are produced in an electric furnace steel plant, with electric furnace slag usually being produced in 10 to 12 times the amount of ladle slag or filter dust. To reduce the basicity, a fine ore quality of the following composition was used as the acid component:

For cement technology reasons, a CaO to SiO 2 basicity of 1.5 and an Al 2 O 3 content between 10 and 15% by weight were set for the target slag. The mixture balance is calculated as follows:

(C / S) = X. CaO (fine ore) + CaO (mixed slag)

(X). Siθ2 (fine ore) + Siθ2 (mixed slag)

Depending on the target slag basicity (C / S), this results in the fine ore fraction (X) to be added as follows:

X = CaO (mixed slag) - (C / S). Siθ (mixed slag) (C / S). Siθ2 (fine ore) - CaO (fine ore)

With a steel mill annual production of 60,000 tons of electric furnace slag, 5,000 tons of ladle slag and 4,500 A ton of filter dust results in a mixed slag with the following analysis:

To set the desired target basicity of 1.5, 1 t of mixed slag was blown with 1.06 t of fine ore, which results in a preliminary slag analysis as follows:

After the greatest possible reduction of this slag, for example in a reduction pan similar to a floor-rinsed, secondary metallurgical pan, the following slag composition and the following iron bath composition were achieved:

iron

Component share (%)

-Mn 3.8

Cr 0.6

P 0.4

C 4

Fe 91

Overall, 1 t pre-slag results in 0.386 t slag and 0.442 t iron bath, the achievable iron being characterized by the fact that it contains neither copper nor tin. The elements manganese, chromium and phosphorus can easily be removed from such a bath composition in a conventional manner by refreshing and forming small, highly concentrated quantities of special slag. The selective P separation can advantageously be carried out under reducing conditions:

2 [P] _F e + 3CaC ₂ -> Ca3P2 + 6 [C] _Fe so that "high chromium-containing" pig iron is available for the electric furnace.

From this embodiment it follows that the waste streams of an electric furnace steel mill can be controlled in a simple manner. In addition to the additives and dusts mentioned at the beginning, filter dust melts from waste incineration plants can of course also be used successfully, although care must be taken to ensure that the filter dust melts are largely free of heavy metals. A common composition of such filter ash or fly ash from thermal power plants is given below:

If such fly ash or garbage incineration filter ash is used in order to reduce the basicity to values between 1.5 and 1.2, the calculation methods stated at the outset apply that approximately 0.35 t of the slag melt obtained from waste incineration plants must be used per t of electric furnace slag. The slag melt, as it was produced from waste incineration plants, had the following composition:

The mixed slag obtained had the following composition:

After reducing this mixed slag, the following final slag was formed in addition to a metal bath:

0.68 t of this slag and 0.23 t of an iron bath were formed from 1 t of mixed slag, the directional analysis of which was determined as follows:

Iron bath

Component share (%)

Mn 10

Cr 4.4

Cu 0.15

P 4.3

C 4

Fe 76

Due to the use of waste incineration ash, an iron bath with residual copper has now been formed, although the copper value should be classified as acceptable for a number of products. Here, too, it is advisable to refresh the iron bath formed in order to achieve at least the slagging of manganese, chromium and phosphorus in special slags, for which conventional methods can be used. The special slag formed in such fresh processes contains relatively high proportions of pollutants, which can however be used separately.

Slag and dusts from other incineration plants, such as waste incineration plants or thermal power plants, can thus also be disposed of in the pan or in the oven in a simple manner, and, as mentioned at the beginning, the process control according to the invention is of particularly high economic importance in electric furnace steelworks.

The method according to the invention can be carried out with the aid of the device shown schematically in the drawing. 1 shows a first embodiment of a device for carrying out the method according to the invention and FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of the device. In Fig. 1, 1 denotes a hearth furnace in which the slag 2 floats on the iron template 3. Hot wind is blown over the feed lance 4 for post-combustion of the CO formed from the bath carbon, the hot exhaust gases from the furnace 1 being drawn off tangentially to the axis 5 of the mouth of the hot wind feed lance 4 via an opening 6. In the Nac combustion section 7, the exhaust gases removed are admixed with additives from the group of fine ores, dusts, mill scale and possibly further fuel and passed over a hot cyclone 8 to separate any liquefied solids and a gas regenerative heat exchanger 9. In the gas regenerative heat exchanger 9, cold air is heated, whereupon the hot wind is fed to the supply lance 4 via a line 10 and is blown onto the slag bath 2 together with the liquefied solids separated in the hot cyclone 8. A dust regenerative heat exchanger 11 can additionally be arranged between the hot wind supply lance 4 and the afterburning section 7.

FIG. 2 shows a modified embodiment of the device according to FIG. 1, the reference numbers being retained for the same parts. In this embodiment, the combustion exhaust gases drawn off through the opening 6 of the furnace 1 are fed directly to a gas regenerative heat exchanger for heating the hot wind. Hot wind is fed via a line 12 to a melting cyclone 13, in which the additives introduced via line 17 opening into line 12 are melted. The liquefied additives are mixed in a pan 14 with the steel slag supplied via the line 15, whereupon the mixed slag formed is placed in the furnace 1, as indicated schematically by 16. The hot 0 ₂ -containing propellant gases of the melting cyclone 13 are blown over the feed lance 4 as a hot wind onto the slags 2.

Claims

Claims:

1.Process for processing steel slags and iron carriers, e.g. Electric furnace, converter slag, fine ore, dusts from steel production, mill scale for the production of pig iron and environmentally compatible slag, whereby molten slag and iron bath are used in a volume ratio between 0.5: 1 and 1.5: 1 and carbon carrier in the Bath is introduced and hot wind is blown, characterized in that a mixed slag with a basicity CaO / SiO 2 between 1.2 and 2.5 is set from the starting slags and iron carriers and this slag is placed in a stove or a pan, that hot wind for afterburning of the CO formed from the bath carbon with a subsequent

C02 + H2θ degree of combustion PC = ~ ₀ . _rn , _H " _H " ₀ between 0.70 and 0.85 and that the hot exhaust gases from the furnace or the pan are drawn off tangentially to the axis of the mouth of the hot wind supply lance.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the exhaust gases withdrawn in a post-combustion section with additives from the group of fine ores, dusts, mill scale and possibly further fuel are added and the heated solids are blown together with the hot wind on the slag.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the combustion exhaust gases of the afterburning section via a hot cyclone for separating the possibly liquefied solids and a heat exchanger for heating the hot wind are performed.

4. The method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the additives are melted in a melting cyclone and mixed in liquid form the basic slags, such as steel slags or electric furnace slags, whereupon the mixed slag is placed in the furnace or pan and the hot 02-containing propellant gases of the melting cyclone are blown onto the slags as a hot wind.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized marked, characterized in that in the line for the hot exhaust gases of the furnace or the pan a pressure is maintained compared to the gas pressure in the gas space of the furnace or the pan is maintained.

6. The method according to claim 1 to 5, characterized in that the carbon carrier is applied in coarse-grained form to the molten bath from above.

7. The method according to claim 1 to 6, characterized in that blast furnace slags are added to lower the basicity.

8. The method according to claim 1 to 7, characterized in that phosphorus from the metal bath under reducing conditions

Calcium carbide is separated.