Journal
CRYSTALS
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cryst12050641
Keywords
zinc; zinc ferrite; calcium roasting; ammonia leaching; phase transformation
Funding
- National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973 Program) [2014CB643403]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University [2018zzts221]
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In this study, CaO was used to degrade zinc ferrite and recover zinc through ammonia leaching. The experimental results demonstrated that the phase transformation of zinc ferrite to zinc oxide and dicalcium ferrite could be achieved completely with the addition of an appropriate amount of CaO. The ammonia leaching tests showed a high zinc leaching rate of approximately 90% under optimal roasting conditions.
Zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4), one of the major forms of zinc in electric arc furnace dust and zinc leaching residue, is very difficult to chemically dissolve in either acidic or alkaline solutions. It is therefore necessary to study the extraction of zinc from zinc ferrite to achieve the full recovery of the zinc resources. In this paper, CaO was used to degrade the structure of zinc ferrite and then the ammonia leaching method was applied to recover zinc. The thermodynamic analysis indicated that the zinc ferrite could react with CaO to form zinc oxide and dicalcium ferrite. The CaO-Fe2O3-ZnO phase diagram shows that Ca2Fe2O5 can be in equilibrium with ZnO rather than ZnFe2O4 at a higher CaO area. The experimental results indicated that the phase transformation of zinc ferrite, reacted with CaO, to zinc oxide and dicalcium ferrite could be completely achieved with a CaO addition of 2.4:1 (mole ratio). The peaks of zinc ferrite in the X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns cannot be clearly observed after calcium roasting at 1220 degrees C for 2 h. The ammonia leaching tests showed that the zinc leaching rate was about 90% under optimal roasting conditions.
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