THE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE REDUCTION OF METAL OXIDES USING WASTE POLYETHYLENE MATERIALS

Abstract

The study relates to the processing of zinc-containing wastes of metallurgical production using products of joint pyrolysis of polyethylene wastes and wood pods. The process is carried out in two stages: preparation of polyethylene waste for the operation and then the recovery process. Zinc-containing wastes are thickened, dehydrated to a moisture content of not more than 10 - 13%, mixed with a reducing agent. Dehydrated Zinc-containing wastes (cake or sludge) are mixed with synthetic reducing agents in a mass ratio cake - artificial reducing agent from 8.8: 2.2 to 8.2: 2.8, respectively, and pelletized. They carry out reductive heat treatment of pelletized waste in the presence of a reliable carbon-containing reducing agent in the amount of 20-40% by weight of the processed waste and the resulting products of the combined pyrolysis of polyethylene waste and wood pods with counter current air blasting in a rotary kiln, distillation of zinc and trapping of sublimates to produce zinc oxides. Moreover, before igniting a reliable, reducing agent and pyrolysis products of polyethylene wastes (synthetic reducing agent), gaseous fuel is burned in the working volume of the furnace. This study will increase the intensity of the processes of sublimation of zinc and reduction of iron, increase the degree of utilization of polymer waste.