Industrial Deportment of Minor and Trace Elements in Direct Nickel Matte Smelting

Oskar Astikainen, Lassi Klemettinen*, Joonas Tammela, Pekka Taskinen, Radoslaw M. Michallik, Hugh O’Brien, Daniel Lindberg

*Tämän työn vastaava kirjoittaja

Tutkimustuotos: LehtiartikkeliArticleScientificvertaisarvioitu

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Abstrakti

A sampling campaign was carried out at an industrial nickel flash smelter with the aim of evaluating the trace element distributions along the smelting line from raw materials to high-grade nickel matte and discard slag. The industrial technology was direct-to-nickel matte smelting without conventional Peirce–Smith converters, thus having two different nickel mattes as smelting products and feeds in the refinery: the sulfidic low-iron nickel matte from smelting furnace and the low-sulfur electric furnace matte from slag cleaning. Major and trace element concentrations were obtained from the solidified samples by electron probe microanalysis and laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry. Due to the industrial sampling environment, i.e., the slow cooling rate of the samples, not all the trace element concentrations were able to be measured at the lowest detection limits of the techniques used in some of the phases formed after cooling. However, the obtained results and element distribution coefficients were in good agreement with equilibrium values published in the literature.

AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
Sivut5445–5458
JulkaisuJOM
Vuosikerta76
Numero9
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä15 heinäk. 2024
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TilaJulkaistu - syysk. 2024
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