Background
The metal zinc and the products thereof are important strategic resources, the zinc yield in 2017 China accounts for more than 50% of the global yield, 85% of zinc is produced by adopting a zinc hydrometallurgy process, and the zinc-iron separation is one of the most critical processes of zinc hydrometallurgy. The jarosite method is a zinc-iron separation process which occupies a leading position in modern zinc hydrometallurgy, but because the jarosite slag contains 20-30% of iron, and is also rich in valuable metals such as zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like, and a large amount of harmful elements such as heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and the like, the jarosite slag can continuously dissolve out to pollute underground water and soil under the condition of natural stockpiling, and the environmental pollution is serious. Therefore, from 1/8 of 2008, jarosite slag produced by the jarosite process has been listed in the national hazardous solid waste array (waste codes 331-005-48). At present, the amount of iron vitriol slag stockpiled in China exceeds 3500 million tons, the iron vitriol slag is increased at a speed of 100 million tons every year, huge potential pollution is caused to the environment, and associated iron resources and valuable metal resources such as zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like are seriously wasted. Therefore, the clean and high-efficiency treatment of the jarosite slag becomes a great environmental protection problem in the domestic metallurgical industry.
At present, the treatment of the iron vitriol slag mainly adopts a combined process of a fire method, a wet method and a fire method and a wet method to realize the recovery of iron and valuable metals, and the methods have respective advantages and disadvantages. Patents with patent application numbers 201610068022.0, 201611063342.3 and 201710091764 respectively disclose a method for preparing micaceous iron oxide and ferroferric oxide by converting iron vitriol slag, and iron elements in the iron vitriol slag are converted into iron chemical products, so that recycling of iron resources is realized. However, the methods have the defects that valuable metals such as zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like in the jarosite slag cannot be recycled, intermediate conversion solution cannot be properly treated, and secondary pollution is easily caused.
The main method for recovering valuable metals in jarosite slag at present comprises roasting-water leaching or solvent leaching, the method can realize the recovery of various valuable metals, but has the defects that the reaction is required to be carried out at the high temperature of 400 plus-1000 ℃, the flue gas which produces a large amount of sulfur dioxide with low concentration is easy to cause low-altitude pollution, the obtained leached slag needs to be further properly treated, the resource utilization of associated iron resources in the jarosite slag is not realized, and the process flow is complex.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems and the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a method for recovering valuable metals and iron in jarosite slag. In a high-temperature aqueous solution, iron vitriol slag is decomposed and converted at high temperature, valuable metals such as zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like are dissolved and enter a conversion solution, associated iron is converted into hematite slag at high temperature, lead and silver are enriched in the hematite iron slag in a sulfate precipitation mode, and the hematite slag can be used as a secondary resource to realize resource utilization after valuable components such as lead, silver and the like are separated and enriched. The invention is realized by the following technical scheme.
A method for recovering valuable metals and iron in jarosite slag comprises the following steps:
step 1, mixing and pulping jarosite slag by adopting water or a dilute sulfuric acid solution according to a liquid-solid ratio of 2-10: 1L/kg to obtain ore pulp, wherein the concentration of the dilute sulfuric acid solution is 0.1-10 g/L;
and 2, adding hematite seed crystals with the concentration of 0-60 g/L into the ore pulp obtained in the step 1, heating to 160-250 ℃, carrying out pyrolysis and conversion reaction for 60-300 min, then carrying out liquid-solid separation to obtain conversion liquid and conversion slag, recovering valuable metals such as zinc, copper, indium and germanium from the conversion liquid, and carrying out floatation separation on lead and silver in the conversion slag to obtain hematite slag.
The jarosite slag comprises the following components in percentage by mass: 20-30% of iron, 2-8% of zinc, 0.05-0.4% of copper, 0.01-0.08% of indium, 0.007-0.07% of germanium, 1-15% of lead and 0.007-0.06% of silver.
And (3) precipitating the conversion solution in the step (2) step by adopting a known sulfide precipitation technology and recovering zinc, copper, indium and germanium in the conversion solution to obtain sulfide precipitates of copper, indium and germanium, zinc sulfide precipitates and a purifying solution respectively, and returning the purifying solution to the step (1) to be used as a size mixing solution.
And (3) separating and recovering lead and silver from the transformation slag in the step (2) by adopting a known flotation separation technology to obtain hematite slag.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the invention overcomes the limitation that the existing treatment process of the iron vitriol slag can only recover iron or valuable metals, and simultaneously realizes the high-efficiency recovery of the valuable metals such as zinc, copper, indium, germanium, lead, silver and the like in the iron vitriol slag and the resource utilization of the associated iron.
(2) In a high-temperature aqueous solution, the high-efficiency leaching of valuable metals and the conversion of iron are combined to be completed in one step, the conversion liquid is returned to the process for use, the hematite conversion slag is recycled, no waste liquid or waste solid is generated in the process, and the method has the advantages of high metal recovery rate, simple process flow, environment friendliness and the like.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described with reference to the following drawings and detailed description.
The iron vitriol slag in the embodiment of the invention is respectively taken from two domestic wet zinc smelting enterprises which adopt iron vitriol method to remove iron, the iron vitriol slag is dried and finely ground until the grain diameter is less than 0.074 mm accounts for more than 90 percent, and the main components of the raw material iron vitriol slag are analyzed by chemical components as shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1 main chemical composition of iron vitriol slag
Example 1
As shown in FIG. 1, the method for recovering valuable metals and iron from jarosite slag comprises the following steps:
step 1, mixing and pulping 0.15kg of iron vitriol slag (iron vitriol slag 1) by using a dilute sulfuric acid solution according to a liquid-solid ratio of 10:1L/kg to obtain ore pulp, wherein the concentration of the dilute sulfuric acid solution is 0.1 g/L;
and 2, adding hematite seed crystals with the concentration of 20g/L into the ore pulp obtained in the step 1, heating to 180 ℃, carrying out pyrolysis and conversion reaction for 180min, and then carrying out liquid-solid separation to obtain 1.35L of valuable metal conversion liquid rich in zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like and 0.103kg of conversion slag.
Precipitating the conversion solution in the step 2 step by adopting a known sulfide precipitation technology and recovering zinc, copper, indium and germanium in the conversion solution to respectively obtain sulfide precipitates of copper, indium and germanium, zinc sulfide precipitates and a purifying solution, and returning the purifying solution to the step 1 to be used as a size mixing solution; and (3) separating and recovering lead and silver by using a known flotation separation technology in the transformed slag in the step (2) to obtain hematite slag.
The XRD pattern of the jarosite slag 1 is shown in figure 2, and the XRD pattern of the transformation slag is shown in figure 3; FIG. 2 shows jarosite (KFe) in the jarosite slag 13(SO4)2(OH)6) And ammonioiarosite (NH)4Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6) The phase-average high-temperature decomposition is converted into hematite conversion slag, and the lead and silver in the hematite conversion slag can be separated and enriched to realize resource utilization.
Respectively taking the conversion solution and the hematite conversion slag enriched with lead and silver for chemical component analysis, wherein the conversion solution contains zinc of 7.44g/L, copper of 316mg/L, indium of 13.32mg/L and germanium of 6.4mg/L, and the conversion slag contains iron of 58.9wt%, lead of 1.7 wt% and silver of 0.013 wt%; the leaching rate of zinc, copper, indium and germanium in this example was 98.5%, 98.2%, 85.6% and 82.3%, respectively, and the enrichment ratio of lead and silver in the slag was 99.8% and 99.6%, respectively.
Example 2
As shown in FIG. 1, the method for recovering valuable metals and iron from jarosite slag comprises the following steps:
step 1, mixing and pulping 0.5kg of iron vitriol slag (iron vitriol slag 1) by using a dilute sulfuric acid solution according to a liquid-solid ratio of 6:1L/kg to obtain ore pulp, wherein the concentration of the dilute sulfuric acid solution is 5 g/L;
and 2, adding 60g/L hematite seed crystal into the ore pulp obtained in the step 1, heating to 160 ℃, carrying out pyrolysis and conversion reaction for 300min, and then carrying out liquid-solid separation to obtain 2.7L valuable metal conversion liquid rich in zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like and 0.43 kg conversion slag.
Precipitating the conversion solution in the step 2 step by adopting a known sulfide precipitation technology and recovering zinc, copper, indium and germanium in the conversion solution to respectively obtain sulfide precipitates of copper, indium and germanium, zinc sulfide precipitates and a purifying solution, and returning the purifying solution to the step 1 to be used as a size mixing solution; and (3) separating and recovering lead and silver by using a known flotation separation technology in the transformed slag in the step (2) to obtain hematite slag.
Respectively taking the conversion solution and the hematite conversion slag enriched with lead and silver for chemical component analysis, wherein the conversion solution contains 12.1g/L of zinc, 0.53g/L of copper, 22.5mg/L of indium and 10.77mg/L of germanium, and the conversion slag contains 62.2wt% of iron、1.36 wt% of lead and 0.01 wt% of silver; the leaching rate of zinc, the leaching rate of copper, the leaching rate of indium, and the leaching rate of germanium in this example were 97.8%, 98.5%, 86.8%, and 83.1%, respectively, and the enrichment ratios of lead and silver in the slag were 99.6% and 99.2%, respectively.
Example 3
As shown in FIG. 1, the method for recovering valuable metals and iron from jarosite slag comprises the following steps:
step 1, mixing and pulping 0.5kg of iron vitriol slag (iron vitriol slag 2) by using a dilute sulfuric acid solution according to a liquid-solid ratio of 2:1L/kg to obtain ore pulp, wherein the concentration of the dilute sulfuric acid solution is 10 g/L;
and 2, heating the ore pulp obtained in the step 1 to 250 ℃ without adding hematite seed crystals, carrying out pyrolysis and conversion reaction for 60min, and then carrying out liquid-solid separation to obtain 0.9L of valuable metal conversion liquid rich in zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like and 0.25kg of conversion slag.
Precipitating the conversion solution in the step 2 step by adopting a known sulfide precipitation technology and recovering zinc, copper, indium and germanium in the conversion solution to respectively obtain sulfide precipitates of copper, indium and germanium, zinc sulfide precipitates and a purifying solution, and returning the purifying solution to the step 1 to be used as a size mixing solution; and (3) separating and recovering lead and silver by using a known flotation separation technology in the transformed slag in the step (2) to obtain hematite slag.
Respectively carrying out chemical component analysis on the conversion liquid in the step (2) and the hematite conversion slag enriched with lead and silver, wherein the conversion liquid contains 12.24g/L of zinc, 1.58g/L of copper, 146.5mg/L of indium and 35.78mg/L of germanium, and the conversion slag contains 56.8wt% of iron, 3.49 wt% of lead and 0.018 wt% of silver; the leaching rate of zinc, the leaching rate of copper, the leaching rate of indium, the leaching rate of germanium and the concentration ratio of lead and silver in the slag are respectively 99.2% and 99.6% in the example, which are calculated to be 97.5%, 98.1%, 82.4% and 80.5%.
Example 4
As shown in FIG. 1, the method for recovering valuable metals and iron from jarosite slag comprises the following steps:
step 1, mixing and pulping 0.5kg of iron vitriol slag (iron vitriol slag 2) and water according to a liquid-solid ratio of 8:1L/kg to obtain ore pulp;
and 2, adding hematite seed crystals with the concentration of 40g/L into the ore pulp obtained in the step 1, heating to the temperature of 220 ℃, carrying out pyrolysis and conversion reaction for 210min, and then carrying out liquid-solid separation to obtain 3.6L of valuable metal conversion liquid rich in zinc, copper, indium, germanium and the like and 0.4kg of conversion slag.
Precipitating the conversion solution in the step 2 step by adopting a known sulfide precipitation technology and recovering zinc, copper, indium and germanium in the conversion solution to respectively obtain sulfide precipitates of copper, indium and germanium, zinc sulfide precipitates and a purifying solution, and returning the purifying solution to the step 1 to be used as a size mixing solution; and (3) separating and recovering lead and silver by using a known flotation separation technology in the transformed slag in the step (2) to obtain hematite slag.
Respectively taking the conversion liquid in the step (2) and the hematite conversion slag enriched with lead and silver for chemical component analysis, wherein the conversion liquid contains 3.08g/L of zinc, 0.4g/L of copper, 37.6mg/L of indium and 9.17mg/L of germanium, and the conversion slag contains 58.2wt% of iron, 2.29wt% of lead and 0.011 wt% of silver; the leaching rate of zinc, copper, indium and germanium in this example was 98.1%, 98.9%, 84.6% and 82.5%, respectively, and the enrichment ratios of lead and silver in the slag were 99.5% and 99.7%, respectively.
While the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, and various changes can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.