WO2021074904A1 - Procédé de régénération d'eaux mères de décapage d'acide chlorhydrique - Google Patents

Procédé de régénération d'eaux mères de décapage d'acide chlorhydrique Download PDF

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WO2021074904A1
WO2021074904A1 PCT/IB2020/059809 IB2020059809W WO2021074904A1 WO 2021074904 A1 WO2021074904 A1 WO 2021074904A1 IB 2020059809 W IB2020059809 W IB 2020059809W WO 2021074904 A1 WO2021074904 A1 WO 2021074904A1
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Arthur Pretorius
Ian Tunnicliffe
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    • C01INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • C01GCOMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F
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    • C01B7/00Halogens; Halogen acids
    • C01B7/01Chlorine; Hydrogen chloride
    • C01B7/03Preparation from chlorides
    • C01B7/035Preparation of hydrogen chloride from chlorides
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    • C01GCOMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F
    • C01G49/00Compounds of iron
    • C01G49/14Sulfates
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    • C23COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23GCLEANING OR DE-GREASING OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY CHEMICAL METHODS OTHER THAN ELECTROLYSIS
    • C23G1/00Cleaning or pickling metallic material with solutions or molten salts
    • C23G1/02Cleaning or pickling metallic material with solutions or molten salts with acid solutions
    • C23G1/08Iron or steel
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    • C23COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23GCLEANING OR DE-GREASING OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY CHEMICAL METHODS OTHER THAN ELECTROLYSIS
    • C23G1/00Cleaning or pickling metallic material with solutions or molten salts
    • C23G1/36Regeneration of waste pickling liquors

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  • THIS invention relates to a pickling process, and in particular to regenerating spent pickling liquors.
  • the process of pickling is a metal surface treatment used to remove impurities, such as stains, inorganic contaminants, rust or scale from ferrous metals, copper, and aluminum alloys.
  • a solution called pickle liquor, which contains strong acids, is used to remove the surface impurities. It is commonly used to de-scale or clean steel in various steelmaking and steel processing processes.
  • Acid reacts with the oxides and base metal to produce dissolved metal salts, thereby neutralizing the acid.
  • Speed is an important requirement for integration in automatic steel mills that run production at high speed; speeds as high as 800 ft/min ( « 243 metres/min) have been reported.
  • the pickling process generates a considerable quantity of spent pickle liquor (SPL) containing the dissolved metal salts as well as residual free acid (a weak ferrous chloride solution). This SPL must be disposed of by chemical neutralization with alkali or regenerated.
  • SPL spent pickle liquor
  • hydrochloric acid offers a number of potential advantages over sulfuric acid, including the following:
  • Iron concentrations can be as high as 13%.
  • Metals other than iron such as zinc, lead or chromium present in the SPL interfere with the regeneration process and may cause the SPL to be rejected by processors.
  • the acid retardation ion exchange process can be used to reduce the acidity of the liquid ferrous chloride byproduct.
  • a pickling process including the steps of:
  • the solution is typically cooled to -1 °C to -15°C, -5°C to -15°C typically -10°C to -15°C.
  • the dosing of sulphuric acid is preferably in molar proportion to the ferric chloride in the solution, at a molar ratio of 1 :1.
  • the hydrochloric acid pickling liquor solution at Step 1 typically has an ambient temperature.
  • the solution comprising hydrochloric acid containing ferric chloride (FeCh) removed from the pickling tank at step 2), and the regenerated hydrochloric acid solution recycled to the pickling tank at step 6) are passed through a cross-flow heat exchanger, for the solution comprising hydrochloric acid containing ferric chloride (FeCh) to heat the regenerated hydrochloric acid solution.
  • Figure 1 is a flow diagram of a process of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 is a graph showing a comparison of concentration of hydrochloric acid between the current method of regenerating SPL, and the process of the present invention.
  • the present invention provides a process for the regeneration of spent pickle liquor that can be carried out on-site where the pickling process takes place.
  • costs would be reduced as equipment on site would reduce down time, service costs would be less and product quality would be more consistent.
  • the equipment may be containerized utilizing technology that operates by exploiting a double decomposition technique with additional technology to create an iron sulphate hepta-hydrate by-product and regenerated hydrochloric acid.
  • the sulfuric acid reacts with the ferrous chloride according to equation (1 ) thereby liberating free hydrochloric acid in solution.
  • the mixed acid is then cooled to below the freezing point of water, causing crystallization of ferrous sulphate hepta-hydrate.
  • the drop in temperature converts crystallized ferrous sulphate mono-hydrate to crystallized ferrous sulphate hepta- hydrate.
  • the mother liquor, now fortified with hydrochloric acid, but containing a residual of sulfuric acid is then separated from the crystals and recycled to the pickling process.
  • the level of residual sulphuric acid in the regenerated hydrochloric acid is dependent on the concentration of iron and the temperature. This is controlled by computer to ensure that the dosing of sulphuric acid is in proportion to the iron content and the temperatures are controlled.
  • the process according to the invention may be known as the NUgen process (Trade Mark).
  • the ferrous sulphate hepta-hydrate is a readily marketable material. There are a number of markets for this material including water treatment coagulants as well as sewage de-odorization, animal feed soil micro-nutrients, catalyst manufacture, iron oxide pigments, magnetic oxides, heavy metal stabilization, cyanide destruction, arsenic stabilization and chrome control in cement.
  • the process is more forgiving towards contamination with other metals such as zinc.
  • steel (not shown) is continuously fed through a pickling line 10 including at least one pickling tank 11 initially containing 18wt% hydrochloric acid pickling solution.
  • the picking tank may hold from 7,000 to 25,000 litres of pickling solution.
  • Ferrous metal is submerged in the pickling tank 11 for a period of 10 to 40 mins.
  • the hydrochloric acid reacts with the oxides and base metal to produce dissolved metal salts, thereby neutralizing the hydochloric acid.
  • Solution 12 comprising hydrochloric acid containing ferric chloride (FeCh) is removed from the pickling tank 11 and regenerated hydrochloric acid/regenerated pickle liquor (RPL) 16 is recycled to the pickling tank to maintain the concentration of hydrochloric acid in the pickling tank 11 in the range of 15 to 16wt% and maintaining the concentrion of iron at about 10wt%.
  • Solution 12 typically containing about about 10wt% iron (in the form of dissolved ferrous chloride) and 15 to 16wt% hydrochloric acid is withdrawn from the pickling tank 11 .
  • the temperature of the exiting solution 12 is at ambient for a continuous pickle line but may be less for a batch pickling operation.
  • the solution 12 is introduced to a cross-flow heat exchanger 14. The solution 12 exchanges heat with a regenerated pickle liquor (RPL) solution 16 returning to the pickling tank 11 in the pickling line.
  • the acid solution to be regenerated 18 then flows into a reactor 20 where it is contacted with 98wt% sulphuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ) 22, thereby initiating Reaction (1 ) and obtaining a reaction mix 24 containg HCI and ferrous sulphate (FeSC ).
  • the final temperature reduction is accomplished by chilling the reaction mix 24 to temperatures of -15 to -1 °C in a crystallizer tank 26 which is cooled by a chiller 28. This temperature reduction reduces the solubility of ferrous sulphate, causing it to precipitate out of solution, leaving behind the hydrogen ions from the sulphuric acid and the chloride ions from the ferrous chloride.
  • ferrous sulphate drops out as the hepta-hydrate salt (FeS0 4 .7H 2 0) which is a coarse crystalline material 30, easily separated from the mother liquor by vacuum filtration 32.
  • a small amount of water is used to wash the residual mother liquor from the crystals to provide a ferrous sulphate product 34. This water compensates for the water of hydration that is combined with the ferrous sulfate.
  • Regenerated pickle liquor (RPL) 36 comprising hydrochloric acid with a concentration in the range of 15 to 18wt% flows to the heat exchanger 14 where it is heated, and heated regenerated pickle liquor (RPL) 16 is returned to pickling tank 11 .
  • Figure 2 is a graph showing a comparison of concentration of hydrochloric acid between the current method of regenerating SPL, and the process of the present invention.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un procédé de décapage conduit dans une cuve de décapage (11). Une solution de décapage comprenant de l'acide chlorhydrique contenant du chlorure ferrique est retirée de la cuve de décapage (11), de l'acide chlorhydrique est ajouté à la cuve de décapage. La solution prélevée (12) est traitée avec de l'acide sulfurique (22) pour obtenir une solution (24) comprenant de l'acide chlorhydrique régénéré contenant du sulfate ferreux ; de façon à obtenir un produit précipité de sulfate ferreux (34) ; et la solution d'acide chlorhydrique régénérée (16) est recyclée dans la cuve de décapage (11).
PCT/IB2020/059809 2019-10-18 2020-10-19 Procédé de régénération d'eaux mères de décapage d'acide chlorhydrique WO2021074904A1 (fr)

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