Specialized metallurgical processes – compositions for use therei – Processes – Producing or treating free metal
Patent
1993-03-19
1994-06-21
Rosenberg, Peter D.
Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therei
Processes
Producing or treating free metal
110346, 423 5, 588201, F23G 500, C22B 700
Patent
active
053225473
ABSTRACT:
An environmentally sound process is described for the remediation of waste materials that allows the separation, recovery and decontamination of metals. The method includes chemically reducing essentially all of a reducible toxic and potentially hazardous metal-containing component of a waste composition. The waste is directed into a molten metal bath, including a first reducing agent which, under the operating conditions of the molten metal bath, chemically reduces a metal of the metal-containing component to form a dissolved intermediate. A reagent is directed into the molten metal bath for metal-ligand exchange with the dissolved intermediate to form a metal-ligand exchange product that includes the metal of the dissolved intermediate. A second reducing agent is directed into the molten metal bath. The second reducing agent, under the operations of the molten metal bath, chemically reduces the metal of the metal-ligand exchange product. The rate at which the second reducing agent is directed into the molten metal bath, relative to the rate at which the component of the waste is directed into the molten metal bath, is sufficient to cause essentially all metal of the metal-containing intermediate formed to be reduced in the molten metal bath, thereby indirectly chemically reducing the component of the waste. This indirect reduction technology can remediate a variety of materials, including ash metal-contaminated municipal waste, vitreous slag-like materials and spent metal catalysts, while allowing the recovery of remediable metals.
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Bach Robert D.
Nagel Christopher J.
Molten Metal Technology, Inc.
Rosenberg Peter D.
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