METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING IRONMAKING DUST

摘要

In order to separate and recover iron from nonferrous metals such as zinc contained in ironmaking dust in a short time, a mixture of ironmaking dust with a carbonaceous material in a ratio of 1:0.05 to 0.3 and a reducing gas containing hydrogen or carbon monoxide are fed into an external heating type rotary furnace, where the iron and the nonferrous metals are reduced with the reducing gas and zinc is vaporized and separated from the solid. The steam and carbon dioxide simultaneously produced at that time are reacted with the carbonaceous material to yield hydrogen and carbon monoxide, thus permitting a highly reducing atmosphere to be maintained in the furnace.