Alumina and Silica Produced by Chlorination of Power Plant Fly Ash Treatment

Autor: Valery Kaplan, Erzhan Zholdasbay, Galamat Daruesh, Aidar Argyn, Nurlan Dosmukhamedov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: JOM. 72:3348-3357
ISSN: 1543-1851
1047-4838
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-020-04267-5
Popis: We describe a process of chlorination of fly ash with either chlorine gas or calcium chloride, which successfully decomposes mullite and permits the extraction of a number of industrially useful, acid-soluble compounds. As a guide for determining optimal input molar ratios and temperatures, the Gibbs energies for three groups of reactions of major fly ash components between 973 K and 1473 K were calculated: (1) chlorination with chlorine gas; (2) chlorination with chlorine gas in the presence of coal; (3) chlorination with calcium chloride. Laboratory-scale measurements with fly ash from six coal combustion power plants in Kazakhstan show that chlorination with either calcium chloride or chlorine gas allows efficient extraction of alumina (α-Al2O3) and silica with both high yield and purity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE