Why amorphous FeO-SiO2 slags do not acid-leach at high temperatures
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Two-way Valorization of Blast Furnace Slag: Synthesis of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate and Zeolitic Heavy Metal Adsorbent
Published on: February 21, 2017
Ilya Perederiy1, Vladimiros G Papangelakis1
1Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E5, Canada.
Abstract:
It has been shown previously that amorphous FeO-SiO2 slags are not amenable to high pressure oxidative acid leaching - unlike their crystalline counterparts. Independent studies of glass and silicate mineral dissolution at ambient conditions suggest that acid attack can be hindered by the formation of a passive silica layer. The current work extends this finding to the case of high temperature dissolution of amorphous FeO-SiO2 slags by providing evidence for the formation of a passive silica layer within slag particles under high pressure oxidative acid leaching conditions (250°C, 70g/L initial H2SO4, 0.62MPa [90psi] O2). Based on the percolation model of glass dissolution, a mechanism of amorphous slag leaching is proposed.
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