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Recycling Technologies for Secondary Zn-Pb Resources

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Steel and zinc (Zn) make a good coupling during their service life and are easily recyclable. Zn coatings lengthen the useful life of steel products and structures and keep the steel performing at its peak condition. When the Zn coated steel is scrapped and recycled, the steel and Zn have new lives. Therefore, the combination of steel and Zn is especially fortunate because it is possible to separate and recover both the original metals. This means that galvanized steel and electro-Zn coated steel sheets are recyclable materials which can be reused to make further contributions to the life of the society. The metals can be separated because Zn is naturally much more volatile than steel. When scrap Zn coated sheet is melted in the steelmaking process, the scrap steel is turned into new steel for reuse. The Zn enters dust which is recovered from the furnace. They form a secondary resource of Zn which we can use again, alongside other Zn raw materials. The recycled Zn is also used in Zn coated steel, with a new life in new products, such as cars, buildings and construction products. This cycle, in which Zn and steel are infinitely renewable, contributes to the virtuous circle of recycling for sustainability.

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Abbreviations

AZR:

American Zinc Corp.

BAT:

Best Available Technology

BOF:

Basic Oxygen Furnace

CZO:

Crude Zinc Oxide

DRI:

Direct Reduced Iron

EAF:

Electric Arc Furnace

EMPF:

Elkem multi-Purpose Furnace

EoL:

End-of-Life

ESRF:

Electric Smelting Reduction Furnace

EW:

Electrowinning

HBI:

Hot Briquetted Iron

HTMR:

High Temperature Metal Recovery

IBSP:

Iron bath Smelting Process

IF:

Induction Furnace

ILZRO:

International Lead Zinc Research Organization

IRM:

Iron Rich Material

ISP:

Imperial Smelting Process

ISRI:

Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries

IZA:

International Zinc Association

Kt:

Kilo ton

OHF:

Open-Hearth Furnace

PCDD:

Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins

PCDF:

Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans

PIZO:

Pig Iron Zinc Oxide

PVC:

Polyvinylchloride

RHF:

Rotary Hearth Furnace

ROM:

Run-of-mine

SDR:

Steel Dust Recycling

SHG:

Special High Grade

SPP:

Submerged Plasma Lance

SX:

Solvent Extraction

TBBPA:

Tetrabromobisphenol A

TBBPADGE:

Tetrabromobisphenol A diglycidyl ether

TGA:

Thermogravimetric Analysis

TMS:

Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

TSL:

Top Submerged Lance

VOC:

Volatile Organic Compounds

WIP:

Waelz Iron Product

WOX:

Waelz Oxide

WZO:

Waelz Oxide

ZCA:

Zinc Corp. of America

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Kaya, M. (2023). Galvanizing Residue and Electrical Arc Furnace (EAF) Dust. In: Kaya, M. (eds) Recycling Technologies for Secondary Zn-Pb Resources. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14685-5_4

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