The present invention discloses a method for detoxifying chromium slag by using high sulfur coal. The method includes: sieving chromium slag into coarse-grained chromium slag and fine-grained chromium slag, air-drying and crushing both the coarse-grained chromium slag and the fine-grained chromium slag; separately mixing the crushed coarse-grained chromium slag and fine-grained chromium slag with the crushed high sulfur coal uniformly; adjusting pH values of a coarse-grained slag mixture and a fine-grained slag mixture to 8.0-11.0 and moisture content thereof to 12%-18%; conducting reduction on the treated coarse-grained slag mixture and fine-grained slag mixture, where the reduction temperature of the fine-grained slag mixture is 500-700° C., the reduction time of the fine-grained slag mixture is 10-30 min, the reduction temperature of the coarse-grained slag mixture is 800-1000° C., the reduction time of the coarse-grained slag mixture is 10-30 min; after the reduction, conducting water quenching, and discharging the product.

The present invention discloses a method for detoxifying chromium slag by using high sulfur coal. The method includes: sieving chromium slag into coarse-grained chromium slag and fine-grained chromium slag, air-drying and crushing both the coarse-grained chromium slag and the fine-grained chromium slag; separately mixing the crushed coarse-grained chromium slag and fine-grained chromium slag with the crushed high sulfur coal uniformly; adjusting pH values of a coarse-grained slag mixture and a fine-grained slag mixture to 8.0-11.0 and moisture content thereof to 12%-18%; conducting reduction on the treated coarse-grained slag mixture and fine-grained slag mixture, where the reduction temperature of the fine-grained slag mixture is 500-700° C., the reduction time of the fine-grained slag mixture is 10-30 min, the reduction temperature of the coarse-grained slag mixture is 800-1000° C., the reduction time of the coarse-grained slag mixture is 10-30 min; after the reduction, conducting water quenching, and discharging the product.

The present invention concerns a slag composition having a high lithium content, suitable as additive in the manufacture of end-user products, or for the economic recovery of the contained lithium. The lithium concentration indeed compares favorably with that of spodumene, the classic mineral mined for lithium production. This slag is characterized by a composition according to: 3%<Li.sub.2O<20%; 1%<MnO<7%; 38%<Al.sub.2O.sub.3<65%; CaO<55%; and, SiO.sub.2<45%.

The present invention concerns a slag composition having a high lithium content, suitable as additive in the manufacture of end-user products, or for the economic recovery of the contained lithium. The lithium concentration indeed compares favorably with that of spodumene, the classic mineral mined for lithium production. This slag is characterized by a composition according to: 3%<Li.sub.2O<20%; 1%<MnO<7%; 38%<Al.sub.2O.sub.3<65%; CaO<55%; and, SiO.sub.2<45%.

The present invention provides an electric furnace including: a cylindrical furnace wall; a furnace cover that is provided at an upper end of the furnace wall; and a furnace bottom that is provided at a lower end of the furnace wall and includes a deep bottom portion and a shallow bottom portion as a region having a height of 150 mm to 500 mm from a deepest point of the deep bottom portion, in which a slag pouring port into which molten slag or a solidified slag lump is capable of being poured from a slag transport container directly or through a tilting trough is provided, the slag pouring port overlaps the shallow bottom portion in a plan view, and the area ratio of the shallow bottom portion to the furnace bottom in a plan view is 5% to 40%.

The present invention provides an electric furnace including: a cylindrical furnace wall; a furnace cover that is provided at an upper end of the furnace wall; and a furnace bottom that is provided at a lower end of the furnace wall and includes a deep bottom portion and a shallow bottom portion as a region having a height of 150 mm to 500 mm from a deepest point of the deep bottom portion, in which a slag pouring port into which molten slag or a solidified slag lump is capable of being poured from a slag transport container directly or through a tilting trough is provided, the slag pouring port overlaps the shallow bottom portion in a plan view, and the area ratio of the shallow bottom portion to the furnace bottom in a plan view is 5% to 40%.

A method of preparing metal hydroxides from industrial wastes or alkaline rocks is provided. The method comprise subjecting a mixture comprising a solvent and a solid substrate to a stimulus in order to leach a metal cation from the solid substrate into the solvent, thereby forming a solution comprising the metal cation in the solvent; and contacting the solution of comprising the metal cation with a cathode, thereby electrolytically precipitating the metal hydroxide from the solution. The stimulus may be chemical, mechanical, or both.

A process for recovering a metal in the form of a metal halide from a metal-containing source is described, the process comprising the steps of: —(i) forming a solid metal halide containing product by contacting the metal-containing source with a gaseous halide in an oxidising environment and at a temperature below the vaporisation temperature of the metal halide of interest; (ii) heating the metal halide containing product formed in step (i) to a temperature at or above the vaporisation temperature of the metal halide to form a gaseous metal halide containing product; and (iii) condensing the gaseous metal halide containing product of step (ii) to recover the metal halide of interest.

The present invention lies in the field of pyrometallurgy and discloses a process and a slag suitable for the recovery of Ni and Co from Li-ion batteries or their waste. The slag composition is defined according to:
10%<MnO<40%;
(CaO+1.5*Li.sub.2O)/Al.sub.2O.sub.3>0.3;
CaO+0.8*MnO+0.8*Li.sub.2O<60%;
(CaO+2*Li.sub.2O+0.4*MnO)/SiO.sub.2≥2.0;
Li.sub.2≥1%; and,
Al.sub.2O.sub.3+SiO.sub.2+CaO+Li.sub.2O+MnO+FeO+MgO>85%.
This composition is particularly adapted to limit or avoid the corrosion of furnaces lined with magnesia-bearing refractory bricks.

A system for treating tin smelting intermediate materials and method for treating the materials is disclosed. The system includes a fuming furnace, an electric settling furnace, a lean slag water quenching pool, a matte ladle, a pulverized coal injection system, a flue gas treatment system and a secondary air supply system; the fuming furnace is connected with the electric settling furnace, the pulverized coal injection system, the flue gas treatment system and the secondary air supply system respectively; the electric settling furnace is also connected with the slag-lean water quenching pool and the matte ladle respectively. The system and method disclosed by the disclosure can efficiently classify, separate and recover tin from other materials, solve the problems of difficult sales and transportation of complex tin-containing smelting intermediate materials and economic loss of discounted sales, and transform hazardous wastes into value-added valuable materials for comprehensive recovery.