The sticking phenomenon between molten slag and refractory is one of the crucial problems when preparing ferronickel from laterite ore using rotary hearth furnace or rotary kiln processes. This study aims to ameliorate sticking problems by using silicon dioxide (SiO2) to adjust the melting degree of the briquette during reduction roasting. Thermodynamic analysis indies that the ...
Nickel: smelting; Extraction and purifiion; Nickel is recovered through extractive metallurgy: it is extracted from its ores by conventional roasting and reduction processes that yield a metal of greater than 75% purity. In many stainless steel appliions, 75% pure nickel can be used without further purifiion, depending on the composition of the impurities.
The sampling of raw materials in the rotary kiln, firing experiment by the experimental kiln, and water quenching experiment have been performed, and the clarifiion of behavior of the reduction and the growth of metal has been attempted by SEMEDS. In the amorphous serpentine region, NiO has very high reducibility than FeO. The increase in heating temperature above 1 273 K allows the fine ...
Roasting and Smelting: Contribution to the Recycling of Rotary Kiln Dust in Nickeliferous Laterite Reduction. Reductive Behavior of the Dust: p. 479: Calcination and Reduction of Laterite Nickel Ores: p. 493: Liquidus Temperatures of FerroNickel Smelting Slags: p. 503: Dust Issues from Rotary Devices: Causes and Cures: p. 519
Nickel laterite ores, which account for approximately 80% of world's nickel reserves, are now becoming increasingly important for the world's nickel supply as nickel demands have grown in the recent decades. In general, nickel can be extracted from its ores using smelting, high pressure acid leaching (HPAL) and Caron roast/leach processes.
Nickel laterites constitute 60 to 70% of the worlds Ni ... new processing technology and reducing. Inquire Now; Direct extraction of nickel and iron from laterite ores ..... Direct extraction of nickel and iron from laterite ores using the carbonyl Process ... 2007. Processing technology vs. nickel laterite ore characteristic. Pt. Inquire Now
May 01, 2012 · Highlights Ni beneficiation of laterite ore by using direct reduction process is proposed. Sodium sulfate is capable of intensifying the reduction roasting of laterite. Average particle size of ferronickel grows up to 50 μm when reduced with Na 2 SO 4. Selective enrichment of Ni can be realized by suppressing the metallization of Fe. Newborn troilite (FeS) facilitates the aggregation of ...
By adding a flux and using a direct reduction roasting and magnetic separation method,iron and nickel enrichment from refractory lowgrade nickel laterite ore,in which nickel is mainly contained in silies,was technical indiors were obtained by adding the optimal conditions are coal as the reducer with a dosage of 15%,KD2 as the flux with a dosage of 20%,and ...
Process descriptions are provided for the following ten plants that treat highmagnesia lateritic nickel ores (saprolite) by pyrometa/lurgical means: PT Aneka Tambang; Cerro Matoso ; Falconbridge Dominicana C. por A.; Hyuga Smelting Company Ltd.; Larco (Societe Miniere Metallurgique de Larymna); Loma de Niquel; Le Nickel, SLNEramet; Nippon Yakin Kogyo Company Ltd.; Pacific .
Lateritic Nickel Ore Processing. While sulfide nickel ores are processed via upgrading to concentrates and then smelting, this approach is not applicable to laterite ores. A variety of approaches are available to process nickel laterite ores, with the most prevalent approaches explained below.
Dec 30, 2019 · Cite this article as: Zulfiadi Zulhan and Windu Shalat, Evolution of ferronickel particles during the reduction of lowgrade saprolitic laterite nickel ore by coal in the temperature range of 900–1250°C with the addition of CaO–CaF 2 –H 3 BO 3, Int. J. Miner. Metall.
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The 2013 test work demonstrated that smelting Decar concentrates on a standalone basis, with the addition of a reductant and fluxing agents, produces a highgrade product of 35%50% nickel (the remainder being almost totally iron, plus minor chromite), compared to typical ferronickel products containing 15%40% nickel.
The invention relates to a method for directly reducing laterite nickel oxide ore to enrich nickel by an ore smelting electric arc furnace. The method comprises the following steps of: crushing the laterite nickel oxide ore until the granularity is 100 to 320 meshes, drying, adding a carbon reducing agent which is 3 to 13 weight percent of the laterite nickel oxide ore, reducing by adopting ...
Lateritic nickel ores have been reduced under laboratory conditions. The reduction experiments were carried out at temperatures from 500 °C to 1100 °C in a horizontal tube furnace using various mixtures of H 2 and CO 2 . The hydrogen evolution method was used to measure the degree of metallization of the reduced ore. It was found that the rate of reduction was very low at 500 °C but then ...
Apr 03, 2018 · The result show that the best smelting time of this research is 60 minutes with the best composition of the reductant is 2,000 gram. ... Characterization of Pomalaa Nickel Laterite Ore Reduction by Using Bioreductor of Lamtoro Wood Charcoal. Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University.
In the production of ferroalloys, nickeliron is one of the more refractory metals. There are three main methods for its capacity: 1. smelting by blast furnace method; 2. direct reduction smelting of rotary kiln; 3. rotary kilnmineral furnace method; The most used one is the rotary kilnmineral furnace method.
Chromite and laterite ores from local sources were smelted in a vertical tube furnace with activated carbon as reducing agent at 1400°C to 1550°C using graphite crucible under argon atmosphere. It is shown that the grade and composition of the ore are the main factors determining the feasibility of smelting a mixture of chromite and laterite ores to produce a FeNiCr crude alloy.
Operating PlantsFerronickel smelting is still the dominating processSmelting is generally applied to higher grade feed, most are > % Ni. Hydrometallurgical plants generally process < 2% Ni. World Nickel Laterite Resources (Distribution by Contained Nickel) Laterites. Mt of Resources %Ni. Mt Ni. 12600. 161 Typical Feed Compositions
The preparation of ferronickel alloy from the nickel laterite ore with low Co and high MgO contents was studied by using a prereductionsmelting method. The effects of reduction time, calcination temperature, quantity of reductant and calcium oxide (CaO), and pellet diameter on the reduction ratio of Fe and on the pellet strength were investigated. The results show that, for a roasting ...
In general, nickel can be extracted from its ores using smelting, high pressure acid leaching (HPAL) and Caron roast/leach processes. The Caron process, which involves reduction roasting of the ore followed by ammonia leaching of reduced ore, is one of the ways in which nickel laterite can be treated.
Prereduction is used in the pyrometallurgical treatment of nickel laterite ores to reduce the load placed on the nickel smelting furnace. This prereduction operation is for the specific purpose of removing oxygen present in the ore to yield a separate nickel enriched metal phase after smelting.
Physical properties of the charge, such as viscosity, basicity and melting temperature, are key factors for the reduction smelting of laterite ore. In this study, CaO is used to improve the properties of the ore. The effect of CaO on the properties before and after smleting is studied and the dosage of CaO is optimized. The results show that the properties of the smelted ore after the addition ...
Direct extraction of nickel and iron from laterite ores . Dec 01, . Introduction. Over the past 30 years laterite ores have become increasingly more important as a source of nickel metal Dalvi et al., methods of nickel extraction from laterite ores have been piloted and some were put into full operation, including acid leach with sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids ...
Selective Reduction of Laterite Nickel Ore. Unlike sulphide nickel ore processing, laterite nickel ore processing requires higherprocessing energy through, a novel method to process laterite nickel ore using lower energy is needed. The novel method is done via direct reduction and magnetic separation. In laterite nickel ...