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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The treatment of laterites has been a research hotspot in extractive metallurgy over the past decades. Industrially, the pyrometallurgical treatment of laterites is mostly accomplished with a well-established method, namely, the rotary kiln–electric arc furnace (RKEF) process, which includes three main operations—calcination, prereduction, and smelting—followed by …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Primary world nickel production in 2020 was 2430.7 kt Ni; 69% (1677.7 kt) of them came from oxidized nickel ores (laterites) and 31% from sulfides. Production-wise, 87.7% of the 1677.7 kt came from pyrometallurgical and …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073leaching (HPAL), Caron process, and direct nickel process (DNi) are the most common processes to treat lateritic ore [4]. HL process can be processed at ambient temperature, but it is a kinetically slow process, and the yield is low compared to AL and HPAL [5]. AL requires 1 bar pressure and tem-perature in the range of approximately (50–90 °C).
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The processing of nickel laterites by high pressure acid leaching (HPAL) typically uses feeds with an average nickel content not less than 1.1%–1.2% (cut-off grade 1.0%) [] though recently several nickel laterite projects have been revalued with lower nickel cut-off grades based upon the cobalt content of the ore.It may also be possible to revalue a low-grade …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The conventional nickel smelting and refining is the dominant strategy for nickel production from the sulfide nickel ores. The main disadvantages are the significant amount of SO 2 emissions during smelting and complex refining processes. In this paper, the authors investigated a solid-state nickel extraction method that recovered nickel values into …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Pressure acid leaching has been applied to the Caron process to reduce high-energy consuming phases in direct ore leaching. Direct leaching eliminates the need for drying and reduction steps, which then leads to energy savings (Buyukakinci, 2008).The acceptable nickel content in this method is 1–5% (Dalvi et al., 2004).Also, the crushed ore is dissolved directly with sulfuric …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The refining process varies, but common methods include electrolytic refining, where an electrical current is used to precipitate nickel from a solution, and the Mond …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Unlike sulphide nickel ore processing, laterite nickel ore processing requires higherprocessing energy through smelting.Therefore, a novel method to process laterite nickel ore using lower energy is needed. The novel method is done via direct reduction and magnetic separation. In laterite nickel processing by direct
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073In this paper, the one-step processing method of laser scanning line following the abrasive belt grinding path is used to treat the surface of the nickel-base superalloy, as shown in Fig. 2. Abrasive belt grinding is used to ensure the consistency of the workpiece surface and replace the usual complicated polishing pretreatment steps.
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