Conference Proceedings
Iron Ore Conference Proceeding 2023
Conference Proceedings
Iron Ore Conference Proceeding 2023
Smelting of nickel and vanadium wastes to produce green steel
The increasing demand for batteries is resulting in the development of large-scale projects for the production of key battery metals such as nickel and vanadium. Several of these projects plan to extract the battery metals from the ore via chemical roasting, leaving large volumes of waste iron oxides after fuming and/or leaching of the battery metals. These iron oxide wastes can be smelted in a HIsmelt furnace using biochar as the reductant, to produce clean, green pig iron with net zero carbon emissions. This green pig iron can then be added to basic oxygen or electric arc steelmaking furnaces to produce green, net zero carbon, steel. This paper describes the flow sheets and the economics for potential projects producing green pig iron via HIsmelt using waste iron oxides from nickel and vanadium production plants.
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N Goodman, D Lalor
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- Published: 2023
- Pages: 7
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- Unique ID: P-03330-H5J1C5