Jiarui Gu , Chao Wei , Pengfei Wu , Zhen Cao , Yujie Shao , Xiaoming Liu , Zengqi Zhang
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Abstract
The vigorous development of the steel industry has led to a significant increase in the accumulation of steel slag, causing serious environmental pollution. Consequently, there is a pressing need to explore additional methods for effectively treating steel slag. The Ca, Fe and other valuable elements in steel slag that can be recovered to produce high value-added products by analyzing the chemical composition of steel slag. In addition, steel slag with high specific surface area and porosity after grinding is considered to have good potential to treat pollutants. Therefore, it is also usually prepared as an environmental functional material to remove pollutants. This paper introduced the physical and chemical properties of steel slag. At the same time, this paper reviewed and analyzed the applications and mechanisms of steel slag in resource recovery and environmental remediation. This paper will provide a reference for the recovery of valuable elements from steel slag and the utilization of steel slag for the preparation of environmentally functional materials for the removal of pollutants. Finally, some critical suggestions are given for steel slag in resource recovery and environmental remediation.
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The purpose of the journal is to provide for the rapid publication of topical papers featuring the latest developments in the allied fields of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. Its wide ranging coverage of research and practical (operating) topics includes physical separation methods, such as comminution, flotation concentration and dewatering, chemical methods such as bio-, hydro-, and electro-metallurgy, analytical techniques, process control, simulation and instrumentation, and mineralogical aspects of processing. Environmental issues, particularly those pertaining to sustainable development, will also be strongly covered.