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- 239000003517 fume Substances 0.000 description 66
- 229910052949 galena Inorganic materials 0.000 description 20
- 238000003723 Smelting Methods 0.000 description 16
- 239000002893 slag Substances 0.000 description 14
- KEQXNNJHMWSZHK-UHFFFAOYSA-L 1,3,2,4$l^{2}-dioxathiaplumbetane 2,2-dioxide Chemical compound [Pb+2].[O-]S([O-])(=O)=O KEQXNNJHMWSZHK-UHFFFAOYSA-L 0.000 description 6
- XCAUINMIESBTBL-UHFFFAOYSA-N Lead(II) sulfide Chemical compound [Pb]=S XCAUINMIESBTBL-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 6
- QGJOPFRUJISHPQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N carbon bisulphide Chemical compound S=C=S QGJOPFRUJISHPQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 6
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 description 6
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 6
- QAOWNCQODCNURD-UHFFFAOYSA-L sulfate Chemical compound [O-]S([O-])(=O)=O QAOWNCQODCNURD-UHFFFAOYSA-L 0.000 description 6
- 239000000446 fuel Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 description 4
- YEXPOXQUZXUXJW-UHFFFAOYSA-N oxolead Chemical compound [Pb]=O YEXPOXQUZXUXJW-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 239000000049 pigment Substances 0.000 description 4
- 235000008733 Citrus aurantifolia Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 241001062472 Stokellia anisodon Species 0.000 description 2
- 235000015450 Tilia cordata Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 235000011941 Tilia x europaea Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 229910000004 White lead Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 238000005054 agglomeration Methods 0.000 description 2
- 230000002776 aggregation Effects 0.000 description 2
- 238000002485 combustion reaction Methods 0.000 description 2
- 150000001875 compounds Chemical class 0.000 description 2
- 239000004744 fabric Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000010978 jasper Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910000464 lead oxide Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000004571 lime Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000000203 mixture Substances 0.000 description 2
- 238000003825 pressing Methods 0.000 description 2
- 238000000746 purification Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000000779 smoke Substances 0.000 description 2
- UCKMPCXJQFINFW-UHFFFAOYSA-N sulphide Chemical compound [S-2] UCKMPCXJQFINFW-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
- C22B13/00—Obtaining lead
- C22B13/02—Obtaining lead by dry processes
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- M y invention relates to the smelting of galena ore, and has for its object to reduce substantially all of the lead contents of such ore to the metallic form and with the least possible cost of production.
- This I accomplish by first treating the galena ore in a Scotch hearth or other similar open-hearth blast-furnace. In this a large percentage of metallic lead is produced, but a portion of the lead is driven off as a lead fume, consisting mainly in sulphate, oxide and sulphide of lead, while another portion of lead is left in a rich slag, called gray slag.
- This fume when screened, consists largely of lead sulphate with comparatively little lead oxide, and even if it contains enough carbon and lead sulphide to ignite the product will not be cintered together but form alight and chalky mass.
- the fume can be and is extensively used as a pigment, andisknown as sublimed White lead, and the steps of the process hereinbefore described are in use for its manufacture.
- the lead sulphate is, as already stated, not capable of agglomerating by its own combustion. It is of too light and fiocculent a nature to permitof its being recharged into a furnace, and, if mixed with the fume from the open-hearth furnace, it makes the cintering or agglomeration of the fume very imperfect, even if not in sufficiently large proportion to destroy its combustibility.
- the sulphate fume can be agglomerated into masses suitable for charging into a blast-furnace by subjecting the fume to pressure, preferably, though not necessa rily, slightly dampening the fume before pressing it.
- the charge of the low cupola-furnace may consist of other ores and compounds in addition to the products of the heartlrfurnace, my process of treating galena being unafiected by the presence or absence of such additional. matter.
- smelt the agglomerated fumes from the open-hearth furnace in a low cupola-furnace may also be smelted in the open-hearth furnace mixed with galena ore. In this case only the slag and lead-ashes-fume settled close behind the open-hearth furnace are smelted in the low cupola-furnace, together with the agglomerated fume from this low cupola-furnace.
- the method of smelting galena which consists in treating the ore in an open-hearth blast-furnace and saving the lead fume driven off therefrom by screening, .agglomerating said fume saved by screening and subjecting it to further smelting for the purpose of reducing it to metallic lead, treating the metalbearing slag of the open-hearth furnace in admixture with agglomerated fume obtained by similar previous treatments in a 10W eupola-furnace and saving the fume driven off thereby in a separate screen system, agglomerating the fume so saved and charging it into the low cupola-iurnace as aforesaid as part of the charge thereof.
- the method of smelting galena which consists in treating the ore in an open-hearth blast-furnace, and saving the metallic fume driven off thereby by screening, agglomerating the metallic fume saved in the screening, treating the metal-bearing slag of the openhearth furnace in ad mixture with the agglomerated fume in a low cupola-furnace and saving the fume driven oif thereby in a separate screen system, agglomeratin g the metallic fume so saved by pressure and charging it into the low cupola-furnace with products of the open-hearth furnace.
Description
UNITED STATES CARL v. rnrnnnus,
PATENT OFFICE.
PICHER, OF SAME PLACE.
METHOD OF SMELTING GALENA.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,691, dated March 17, 1896.
Application filed July 1'7, 1894. Serial No. 517,770.
To (d5 whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, CARL V. PE rnnnus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Joplin, in the county of Jasper, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Smelt-ing Galena, of which the following is a true and exact description.
M y invention relates to the smelting of galena ore, and has for its object to reduce substantially all of the lead contents of such ore to the metallic form and with the least possible cost of production. This I accomplish by first treating the galena ore in a Scotch hearth or other similar open-hearth blast-furnace. In this a large percentage of metallic lead is produced, but a portion of the lead is driven off as a lead fume, consisting mainly in sulphate, oxide and sulphide of lead, while another portion of lead is left in a rich slag, called gray slag. I intercept and save the lead fume by passing the furnace smoke into a screen'system, preferably consisting of fabric bags, and I then aggloinerate the collected fume, which is easily done by igniting the mass, the carbon and lead sulphide burning freely, and the product, mainly lead sulphate and oxide, being cintered together in hard sticks or lumps in good condition. for treatment in a reducing-furnace. l thenv charge the lead-slag of the open-hearth furnace, to gether with the agglomerated fume, into low cupola-furnaces for further smelting, and I intercept and save the large amount of lead fumes driven off from these furnaces in a separate screen system. This fume, when screened, consists largely of lead sulphate with comparatively little lead oxide, and even if it contains enough carbon and lead sulphide to ignite the product will not be cintered together but form alight and chalky mass. When the fuel in the low cupola-furnace is carefully chosen and precautions are used to burn out all the carbon and lead sulphide, the fume can be and is extensively used as a pigment, andisknown as sublimed White lead, and the steps of the process hereinbefore described are in use for its manufacture. My
treatment, however, is directed solely to the manufacture of metallic lead, which permits me to use fuel of inferior grade and to omit (N0 specimens.)
the steps of a pigment-producing process required for the purification of the fume. The lead sulphate, however, is, as already stated, not capable of agglomerating by its own combustion. It is of too light and fiocculent a nature to permitof its being recharged into a furnace, and, if mixed with the fume from the open-hearth furnace, it makes the cintering or agglomeration of the fume very imperfect, even if not in sufficiently large proportion to destroy its combustibility. These causes have led to the abandonment of attempts heretofore made to resmelt this product, but I have discovered that the sulphate fume can be agglomerated into masses suitable for charging into a blast-furnace by subjecting the fume to pressure, preferably, though not necessa rily, slightly dampening the fume before pressing it. Other methods-such as cindering the fume in a furnace or cementing it by the addition of some solution, as of lime and water-can also be used, but will be found more expensive and less satisfactory than my preferred method.
Having agglomerated the sulphate fume I charge it into the low cupola-furnace, and with the result of securing practically the entire lead contents of the galena under treatment and at a low cost.
Of course it will be understood that the charge of the low cupola-furnace may consist of other ores and compounds in addition to the products of the heartlrfurnace, my process of treating galena being unafiected by the presence or absence of such additional. matter.
It is preferable, but not necessary, to smelt the agglomerated fumes from the open-hearth furnace in a low cupola-furnace. They may also be smelted in the open-hearth furnace mixed with galena ore. In this case only the slag and lead-ashes-fume settled close behind the open-hearth furnace are smelted in the low cupola-furnace, together with the agglomerated fume from this low cupola-furnace.
Having now described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
1. The method of smelting galena which consists in treating the ore in an open-hearth blast-furnace and saving the lead fume driven off therefrom by screening, .agglomerating said fume saved by screening and subjecting it to further smelting for the purpose of reducing it to metallic lead, treating the metalbearing slag of the open-hearth furnace in admixture with agglomerated fume obtained by similar previous treatments in a 10W eupola-furnace and saving the fume driven off thereby in a separate screen system, agglomerating the fume so saved and charging it into the low cupola-iurnace as aforesaid as part of the charge thereof.
2. The method of smelting galena which consists in treating the ore in an open-hearth blast-furnace, and saving the metallic fumes driven off thereby by screening, agglomerating the metallic fume saved in treating the metal-bearing slag of the openhearth furnace in admixture with the ag glomerated fume in a low cupola-furnace, and saving the fume driven off thereby in a sepathe screening,
rate screen system, agglomerating the metallic fume so saved and charging it into the low cupola-furnace with products of the openhearth furnace.
3. The method of smelting galena which consists in treating the ore in an open-hearth blast-furnace, and saving the metallic fume driven off thereby by screening, agglomerating the metallic fume saved in the screening, treating the metal-bearing slag of the openhearth furnace in ad mixture with the agglomerated fume in a low cupola-furnace and saving the fume driven oif thereby in a separate screen system, agglomeratin g the metallic fume so saved by pressure and charging it into the low cupola-furnace with products of the open-hearth furnace.
W. H. IIcHER, GALEN SPENCER.
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