WO1993003190A2 - Ore pelletisation - Google Patents
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- C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
- C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
- C22B1/00—Preliminary treatment of ores or scrap
- C22B1/14—Agglomerating; Briquetting; Binding; Granulating
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- C22B1/242—Binding; Briquetting ; Granulating with binders
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- polymers used as binder for pelletisation processes are wholly water soluble.
- the particulate binder may comprise synthetic polymer particles often having a size up to 300 ⁇ m formed by polymerisation of water soluble, ionic, ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomer blend to form water soluble polymer particles.
- the monomer blend is free of cross linking agent, so as to avoid cross linking with the consequential risk of insolubility.
- pelletisation binder of soluble anionic synthetic polymer has several advantages over the use of bentonite, but it can suffer from one disadvantage in that it is difficult to achieve adequate dry strength in the ore pellets at economic dosages. Even if the dosage is increased in order to improve dry strength, there may then be other disadvantages, such as stickiness and aggregation of pellets in the drum and instability during the pelletising process.
- the concentration of the polymer in the solution will normally be chosen, for this observation, such that the solution is a viscous or slightly viscous flowable liquid.
- One way of testing the suitability of the polymer is to cast a film from the solution.
- the cross linking is sufficiently low to be suitable for use in the invention, it will be possible to obtain a reasonably uniform film having a thickness less, and often significantly less, than the average particle size since most of the particles will go into solution in preference to retaining their individual particulate shape. If the particles are too highly cross linked, the particles will retain their particulate shape and so the composition will either not form a film at all or will not form a reasonably uniform film having a thickness less than the average particle diameter. For instance film formation may be observed at increasing dilutions in order to determine the thickness at which the composition tends to lose its film forming capacity. If that occurs at a thickness of about the average particle size, this suggests that the particles are too strongly cross linked and insufficiently soluble.
- One test we have adopted for determining suitable amounts of cross linking is a filtration test in which we measure the time it takes for a 0.5% aqueous solution obtained from a 70:30 blend of polymer and sodium carbonate particles in the size range 50 to 250 ⁇ m, often around lOO ⁇ rn, to drain through a 150 ⁇ m sieve, when the polymer is a copolymer of 80% acrylamide and 20% sodium arylate with IV around 7 to 9dl/g.
- between 50 and 90% of the solution should drain through in 30 minutes for best performance. If less than 50% drains in 10 minutes the polymer is too cross linked and if substantially 100% drains in 3 minutes the polymer is insufficiently cross linked. With polymers that tend to be more viscous (e.g., higher IV) the times will need to be increased upwardly and with lower IV polymers the times will need to be adjusted downwardly.
- G should have a value not more than about 1.5 or 2 times the value of G", and preferably not more than G". It is usually preferred for G 1 to be less than G", especially when the intrinsic viscosity of the corresponding linear polymer (see below) is reasonably low, e.g., up to about 7 or 8dl/g. If G' greatly exceeds G", this indicates the polymer is tending to behave primarily as a cross linked particulate hydrogel (i.e., individual insoluble particles) rather than as a swollen network of soluble particles.
- cross linker will depend on the moisture, the ore, the type of cross-linker, the nature of the polymer, and, in particular, the - IV (intrinsic viscosity) of the polymer in the absence of cross-linker.
- the cross linker is merely acting as a chain extender without making any noticeable difference to the solubility. Even at these very low levels of cross linking significant improvement in dry strength was obtained.
- the amount of cross linker is at least sufficient to give this increase in IV. As the amount of cross linking agent is increased, the solubility is adversely affected sufficient for IV measurement to become unreliable, but there is often a further increase in dry strength despite this drop in solubility. We observe that the drop number may start to deteriorate as soon as it no longer became possible to measure IV.
- the extent of cross linking is such that the polymer still has a measurable single point IV and that this is higher than the IV of the linear polymer, or that the polymer should be cross linked a few ppm (for instance 5 to lOppm) beyond this point.
- the cross linking agent can cause covalent or ionic cross linking through pendant groups, (e.g. , by use of a glycidyl ether or multivalent metal salt) but preferably the cross linking agent is a diethylenically unsaturated monomeric cross linking agent.
- Methylene bis acrylamide is a suitable example but any of the conventional ethylenic cross linking agents can be used.
- the amount of added cross linking agent is generally in the range 2 to 100, usually 2 to 50, ppm and, as mentioned above, the amount of cross linking agent should be higher when the IV (of the linear polymer) is lower, and vice versa.
- the amount of cross linking agent is generally in the range 5 to 50ppm, preferably around 7 to 20ppm most preferably around I5ppm.
- the amount of cross linking agent is generally in the range 2 to 30ppm, preferably around 5 to 15 or 20ppm, frequently at around lOpp . It is usually preferred for the amount of cross linker to be below 18ppm, for instance 10-15ppm and for the IV of the uncross linked polymer to be 5 to 9dl/g.
- the amount of cross linker can be high (e.g., 50-100 or even 150ppm MBA) without causing insolubility and these low IV, highly branched, soluble polymers can also be used in the invention.
- the amount of cross linker mentioned in the preceding paragraphs is the amount by weight when the cross linking agent is methylene bis acrylamide (MBA) .
- MSA methylene bis acrylamide
- Another way of making substantially dry dispersions of polymer particles in oil is to disperse previously formed polymer powder into a non-aqueous liquid, for instance as described in EP 0277018.
- the polymer may be supplied as a dry, powdered, particulate composition.
- the composition may be in the form of particulate aggregates of small particles such that the aggregates break down into the individual small particles during the pelletisation process, for instance as described in EP 0326382.
- the particles merely to be supplied in the form in which they are initially made.
- the particles may have been made by gel polymerisation followed by comminution and drying, but preferably they are made by reverse phase bead polymerisation followed by drying and, if desired, comminution.
- the particle size may be very small, for instance below 20 ⁇ m but usually the particle size is in the range 20 to 300 ⁇ m.
- the polymer particles are mainly below 200 ⁇ m, most preferably below 150 ⁇ m.
- the polymer can be cationic, for instance as described in EP 0288150, but is generally anionic as in EP 225171.
- the amount by weight of sodium acrylate or other anionic monomer is generally in the range 5 to 90% by weight, with the balance preferably being acrylamide. It is normally preferred for the polymer to be a copolymer of acrylamide with 10 to 40%, often 15 to 30%, sodium acrylate, often with IV in the range 5 to 12.
- IV is from 5 to 9 and the amount of cross linker is 5 to l ⁇ ppm, measured as MBA.
- the synthetic polymer particles in the particulate binder consist substantially only of the partly cross linked polymer particles described above.
- the binder particles can include other binder components.
- particulate binder can include particles of a natural binder, such as a water soluble cellulose (e.g., an ether such as hydroxyethyl cellulose or an ester such as carboxy ethyl cellulose) , a water soluble starch or a water soluble gum such as xanthan gum or, preferably, guar gum, and/or can contain bentonite.
- a water soluble cellulose e.g., an ether such as hydroxyethyl cellulose or an ester such as carboxy ethyl cellulose
- a water soluble starch or a water soluble gum such as xanthan gum or, preferably, guar gum
- additional binder such as bentonite or guar gum is to be included, the amount is often in the range 1 to 20 parts, preferably 5 to 15 parts, per part by weight of the lightly cross linked polymer.
- the preferred additive is sodium carbonate.
- the moisture that is present in the pelletisation process is provided by softened water it is often preferred to use the polymeric binder in the absence of added inorganic electrolyte such as sodium carbonate because the presence of sodium carbonate under these circumstances can sometimes reduce the benefits of the cross linking effect.
- the moisture generally contains dissolved divalent metal salts, for instance as a result of being provided by relatively hard water, and under these circumstances it is desirable to include an inorganic electrolyte such as sodium carbonate since this promotes the desired improvement in dry strength, probably as a result of preciptating inorganic calcium salts and thus preventing the calcium insolubilising the polymer.
- the materials used for making the polymer may all be as described in EP 225171.
- the amount of the partly cross linked polymer is in the range 0.01 to 0.2%, usually 0.02 to 0.1%, by weight of the total mix and the amount of moisture is generally in the range 8 to 15% by weight.
- the mineral ore is usually an iron ore, it can be any other particulate pelletisable mineral ore, such as a zinc ore. Its particle size is generally mainly below 250 ⁇ m.
- Example 1 A range of 20% sodium acrylate/80% acrylamide copolymers were prepared in the laboratory containing 0- 250ppm MBA (methylene bisacrylamide) as crosslinking agent.
- MBA methylene bisacrylamide
- Particulate magnetite concentrate was then pelletised in conventional manner using 0.06% by weight of one of the polymers A to I as the binder and using softened water to provide the moisture.
- the results were as follows.
- Example 1 The process of Example 1 is repeated on an iron ore concentrate in which the moisture has not been softened, and thus is relatively hard. The following results are obtained.
- Example 2 was repeated except that 0.006% sodium carbonate was added to the polymer, to give a total binder content of 0.066%.
- the results were as follows.
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US08/190,115 US5435834A (en) | 1991-08-02 | 1992-08-03 | Ore pelletization |
CA002114439A CA2114439C (en) | 1991-08-02 | 1992-08-03 | Ore pelletisation |
JP5503411A JPH06509391A (en) | 1991-08-02 | 1992-08-03 | Ore pelletizing method |
BR9206328A BR9206328A (en) | 1991-08-02 | 1992-08-03 | Ore pelletizing process. |
AU23803/92A AU664709B2 (en) | 1991-08-02 | 1992-08-03 | Ore pelletisation |
EP92916671A EP0596992B1 (en) | 1991-08-02 | 1992-08-03 | Ore pelletisation |
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GB919116700A GB9116700D0 (en) | 1991-08-02 | 1991-08-02 | Ore pelletisation |
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CA (1) | CA2114439C (en) |
GB (1) | GB9116700D0 (en) |
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US6152985A (en) * | 1997-11-13 | 2000-11-28 | Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments Limited | Ore pelletization |
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USRE37037E1 (en) | 1988-12-19 | 2001-01-30 | Cytec Technology Corp. | Emulsified mannich acrylamide polymers |
WO1999018247A1 (en) * | 1997-10-03 | 1999-04-15 | Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments Limited | Mineral pelletisation |
US6293994B1 (en) | 1997-10-03 | 2001-09-25 | Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments Ltd. | Mineral pelletisation |
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