Sustainable Approaches for LD Slag Waste Management in …

Reduce, reuse, and recycle are important techniques for waste management. These become significant for improving environmental and economic condition of industries. Integrated steel industries are generating huge amounts of steel slag as waste through the blast furnace and Linz–Donawitz (LD) process. Presently, …

The potential utilization of slag generated from iron- and …

Along with iron and steel production, large amount of slag is generated. Proper management on the iron- and steelmaking slag is highly demanded due to the …

An Overview on Utilization of Steel Slag as Road

Keywords Steel slag ·Road construction materials ·Pavement performance 1 Introduction Steel slag is a solid waste derived from the steelmaking process, which accounts for approximately 15% of the total crude steel output [1, 2]. The annual global production of iron and steel slag exceeds 400 million tons.

Slag-What is it Good for? | U.S. Geological Survey

Ferrous slag is currently underutilized. Although the construction industry does use some slag as an aggregate, most is simply discarded. However, slag could be used to treat acid soils or acid mine drainage. Doing so would both offset the cost of restoring abandoned mine areas, as well as decrease steel manufacturers' current waste footprint.

Waste Disposal and Recycling in Steel Industry

Steel is a versatile commodity that plays a major part in everyday life—from food cans, containers, automobiles, and office buildings. Steel makes up the largest category of metals in the municipal solid waste (MSW) and industrial waste streams. Steel since ages has been a recycled material throughout the world. Solid …

Environmental and Socioeconomic Impact of Copper Slag…

Copper slag is generated when copper and nickel ores are recovered from their parent ores using a pyrometallurgical process, and these ores usually contain other elements which include iron, cobalt, silica, and alumina. Slag is a major problem in the metallurgical industries as it is dumped into heaps which have accumulated into millions …

Harmless Disposal and Comprehensive Recovery …

The iron grade of rich iron slag was 56.27% and the iron grade of the poor iron slag was 30.7%. chemical composition of cadmium waste slag leaching toxicity results of cadmium waste slag (mg/l)

Electrocoagulation applied for textile wastewater oxidation using iron

The results obtained demonstrate the potential of using iron slag as an electrode in the electrocoagulation process in order to reuse industrial waste and reduce costs in the treatment and disposal of solid waste. Thus, the slag can be seen as an alternative material to be used in electrocoagulation processes for the treatment of …

Characteristics and environmental aspects of slag: A review

1. Introduction. Slag examined in this study is defined as the predominantly silicate and oxide by-product derived from smelting metallic ore. The two main types of slag included in this discussion are from the primary production of ferrous ores, from iron and steel manufacturing, and from non-ferrous ores, from the recovery of base metals and …

Vanadium extraction from steel slag: Generation, recycling …

Steel slag, a solid waste that has been widely discussed, ... Common chemical components of steel slag include oxides of vanadium, iron, silicon, titanium, chromium, calcium and magnesium, ... (GB 50406-2007)" to make provisions for steel slag disposal, which means that steel slag should be treated according to its physical and …

Steel slag in China: Treatment, recycling, and management

The Code for the Design of Environmental Protection of the Iron and Steel Industry (GB 50406-2007), Steel Slag Treatment Technology Standard (GB/T 29514-2013), and Standard for Pollution on the Storage and Disposal Site for General Industrial Solid Wastes (GB 18599-2001) stipulate the rules for the treatment, storage, and disposal of …

From waste to waste: iron blast furnace slag for heavy …

Blast furnace slag (BFS) is produced in huge quantities by iron and steel companies, which pose a large major disposal challenge. In 2013, global steel slag output was approximated to be between 170 and 250 million tonnes (Gomes et al. 2018). BFS is a non-metallic output of steel manufacturing.

Carbon mineralization of steel and iron-making slag: Paving …

Carbon mineralization technology has emerged as a promising method for permanently sequestering CO 2 by transforming it into a thermodynamically stable solid carbonate material. Recently, alkaline industrial waste, particularly from steel and iron-making processes, has been identified as a proper feedstock due to its high potential for …

High temperature melting of municipal solid waste …

With the development of municipal solid waste incineration technologies, the disposal of fly ash has become a difficult problem that many countries need to solve. High-temperature melting is a promising disposal technology. ... The separation of iron and slag after melting was the result of blast furnace smelting (Kim et al., 1998). Download: ...

Steel plant slag dumps: A potential source of groundwater

Abstract The metallurgical processes in production of iron and steel from ores produce slags (blast furnace slag and basic oxygen furnace slag), which is usually dumped as solid waste by various steel plants around the world. The present study assessed and estimated the impact of slag dump piling up for the last 60 years on the hydrogeological …

Eco-concrete for sustainability: utilizing aluminium …

One such a way of waste disposal can be through utilizing them in concrete pro-duction as a filler material or pozzolana. In this regard, the ... iron slag which is a by-product of iron and steel ...

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INTEGRATED STEEL …

generated from the process of a steel industry principally consist of slag, sludge, dust & fines, mill scales, refractory wastes. Iron (BF) slag and steel (BOF) slag contribute the major share (around 90%) of solid waste generation. Therefore, this standard has been revised to include latest guideline regarding chemical composition and possible ...

Waste slag benefits for correction of soil acidity

The sustainable development of 2030 AGENDA and Waste Management Legislation sustain the disposal of a large quantity of slag at landfill sites by causing environmental consequences which has drawn ...

Waste slags as sustainable construction materials: a …

Cupola slag is a cast iron (CI) manufacturing waste product that forms in cupola furnaces. Metal working produces slag as a by-product. The EAF technology is …

Red Mud: From Industrial Waste to a Flux for Manufacturing …

Red mud is an industrial waste product generated during the processing of bauxite ore to extract alumina (Al 2 O 3) by Bayer process. [18,19,20] Red mud is rich in mixture of minerals like hematite (Fe 2 O 3 in the range 5 to 60 pct), alumina (Al 2 O 3 in the range 5 to 30 pct), titania (TiO 2 in the range 0.3 to 15 pct), silica (SiO 2 in the range 3 to …

General Situation of Iron and Steel Smelting and Solid Waste …

Iron and steel metallurgy is a process in which metals are extracted from iron ore or other valuable waste resources according to the basic principles of physical chemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, transmission principle, reaction engineering and metallurgy, and then refined and then made into iron and steel materials with certain …

The potential for copper slag waste as a resource for a …

This work proposes an environmentally safe and economically feasible method of waste copper-nickel production slag utilization (Kola Mining-Metallurgical Company, Nornickel, Kola Peninsula, Russia).

The potential for copper slag waste as a resource for a …

This model of the economy has contributed immensely to depletion of natural resources and dumping of wastes (Stephan and Athanassiadis, 2018, Fořt and Černý, 2020). The disposal of slag waste lead to serious environmental and health risks (Gorai et al., 2003, Sanchez and Sudbury, 2013, Roy et al., 2015, Potysz et al.,

Waste Disposal and Recycling in Steel Industry

89.6% of solid waste generated from Steel Works is recycled or reused. 17% of the solid waste generated, amounting to approximately 6, …

Iron and Steel Slag

Recycling: Following removal of entrained metal, slag can be returned to the blast and steel furnaces as ferrous and ... Slag, dross, scalings, and other waste from …

The recycling and reuse of steelmaking slags — A review

During the blast furnace process limestone (CaCO 3) flux is added, to collect the waste products produced: silica (SiO 2), phosphorus pentoxide (P 2 O 5), calcium …

Iron and Steel Slag

Slag, dross, scalings, and other waste from manufacture of iron and steel: Ferrous scale 2619.00.3000 Free. Other 2619.00.9000 Free. U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, January 2021 . IRON AND STEEL SLAG. ... 2020, world iron slag production was estimated to be between 310 million and 380 million tons, and steel slag ...

Metallurgical Wastes as Resources for Sustainability of the …

The main objective for the disposal of waste is disposing of waste according to the requirements of the waste management legislation in order to protect human health and the environment. ... The removal of metallic iron from the slag by magnetic separation is necessary. Due to the high content of iron oxides, steelmaking slags must be …

Ferromanganese Slag: Transforming Waste material into …

Ferromanganese slag, a byproduct of the metallurgical process in the steel industry, has long been viewed as waste material. However, there has been a growing awareness of its potential as a valuable resource in recent years. This article explores the composition of ferrom anganese slag, its environmental impact, and the role it plays in …

Recycling of ironmaking and steelmaking slags in Japan and …

The mass production of steel is inevitably accompanied by large quantities of slags. The treatment of ironmaking and steelmaking slags is a great challenge in the sustainable development of the steel industry. Japan and China are two major steel producing countries that have placed a large emphasis on developing new technologies …

Sustainable Waste Disposal and Recycling Strategies

Steel production involves the extraction of iron ore, the primary raw material, and its transformation into steel through a series of energy-intensive processes, including smelting and refining. These processes generate various types of waste, such as slag, dust, and scale, along with emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

Towards the co-benefits of carbon capture, utilization and

The objective of this research is to conduct a comprehensive LCA evaluation of different steel slag disposal processes. This study employs a "cradle-to-gate" approach, focusing on steel slag disposal while omitting the post-disposal utilization and end-of-life stages of steel slag (Burchart-Korol, 2013; Olmez et al., 2016). The system ...