TY - GEN
T1 - Mathematical simulation of the copper drossing in lead bath with sulphur injection
AU - Gutiérrez Pérez, Victor Hugo
AU - Cruz Ramírez, Alejandro
AU - Vargas Ramírez, Marissa
AU - Gonzalez Nava, Marlenne
AU - Sánchez Martínez, Angélica
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Lead is an engineering material used mainly in the manufacturing of lead-acid batteries for the automotive industry. Lead recovery from exhausted batteries is carried out by the pyrometallurgical route by injecting sulfur the powder reagent through a lance into the lead bath. In this work a mathematical simulation was carried out on the copper drossing process with the software COMSOL 3.4. A kinetic study of the injection process of the lance-kettle system was carried out. The copper concentration profiles were obtained according with the injection rate of the particles. The best conditions for the copper drossing process were an injection rate of 3.31 m/s at 380°C. The modeling results were validated with experimental results obtaining good agreement.
AB - Lead is an engineering material used mainly in the manufacturing of lead-acid batteries for the automotive industry. Lead recovery from exhausted batteries is carried out by the pyrometallurgical route by injecting sulfur the powder reagent through a lance into the lead bath. In this work a mathematical simulation was carried out on the copper drossing process with the software COMSOL 3.4. A kinetic study of the injection process of the lance-kettle system was carried out. The copper concentration profiles were obtained according with the injection rate of the particles. The best conditions for the copper drossing process were an injection rate of 3.31 m/s at 380°C. The modeling results were validated with experimental results obtaining good agreement.
KW - Copper drossing
KW - Injection
KW - Lead
KW - Simulation
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U2 - 10.1S57/opl.2012.404
DO - 10.1S57/opl.2012.404
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84879244670
SN - 9781627482035
T3 - Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
SP - 56
EP - 65
BT - Materials Research for Mining and Mineral Processing
T2 - 20th International Materials Research Congress, IMRC 2011
Y2 - 14 August 2011 through 19 August 2011
ER -