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2584179 
Book/Book Chapter 
On the separation of zinc from dust in ironmaking and steelmaking off-gas cleaning systems 
Ma, NY 
2008 
EPD CONGRESS 
547-552 
WOS:000255551100062 
Solid wastes produced in ironmaking and steelmaking off gas cleaning systems often contain zinc. The zinc level in these solid wastes is generally too high to recycle the wastes for iron through blast furnaces, but too low to economically treat the wastes for zinc through zinc-recovery facilities. The behavior, status, and distribution of zinc in the ironmaking and steelmaking off-gas cleaning systems have been analyzed from three aspects: thermodynamics of zinc condensation, oxidation and deposition, correlation of zinc concentration with particle size and density, and aerodynamics of dust particles in the off-gas cleaning systems. Theory and supporting data show that spontaneous separation of zinc from iron-bearing dust occurs in the ironmaking and steelmaking off-gas cleaning systems. Dry off-gas cleaning systems provide the most favorable conditions and environments for zinc to separate from the dust. If high-efficiency dry separators were applied and appropriately arranged in the off-gas cleaning systems, zinc would be concentrated, and the majority of the solid wastes could be recycled for iron recovery through blast furnaces. 
ironmaking; steelmaking; off-gas cleaning systems; solid wastes; dust; zinc; separation