In the article presents the results of studies on the effect of temperature and pressure on the chloride sublimation of zinc and lead from converter dusts of steel production. Currently, an objective necessity is the development of dust utilization technologies for converter steel production, with its further use in production and production of by-products. The use of dust allows not only to save natural raw materials, but also increases production efficiency and improves the environmental situation. The content of non-ferrous metals in dusts makes it difficult to process and use them in agglomeration or in blast furnace production, while the iron content in converter dusts (sludges) makes it possible to use them as promising metallurgical raw materials. Therefore, for a more complete processing of dusts, extraction of non-ferrous metals from them is proposed. The purpose of this work was to determine the possibility of extracting zinc and lead from sludges of the converter production by the method of chloride sublimation. We used dust containing: 86,3 % Fe2O3, 3,5 % FeO, 0,9 % Al2O3, 1,6 % CaO, 0,9 % MgO, 1,1 % MnO, 0,8 % SiO2, 4,4 % ZnO, 0,5 % PbO. The study was conducted in the temperature range 200-1600 degrees C and pressures of 0,01; 0,1 and 1 bar based on a complete thermodynamic analysis using the HSC – 5.1 software package. Finnish metallurgical company Outokumpu, based on the principle of minimum Gibbs energy. According to the results of the studies, it was found that, at normal pressure, lead chloride sublimationbegins at a temperature of 600 degrees С, and zinc - at 900 degrees С: a decrease in pressure to 0,01 bar reduces the temperature to 500 degrees С and 700 degrees С, respectively; lead chloride sublimation under equal conditions is more complete than zinc; To achieve zinc chloride distillation at the level of 90-96 %, the process must be carried out at 1145-1200 degrees С and pressure from logP = -2 to 1,2 bar, while the degree of lead chloride distillation is 99,8-100 %.

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