TY - CONF A1 - Taube, Mareike Carolin A1 - Adam, Christian A1 - Adamczyk, Burkart A1 - Beckmann, T. A1 - Reuter, M. A1 - Stelter, M. A2 - Thiel, S. A2 - Thomé-Kozmiensky, E. A2 - Pretz, T. A2 - Senk, D. G. A2 - Wotruba, H. T1 - Tantal-Rückgewinnung aus Zinnschlacken und weiteren Reststoffen T2 - Mineralische Nebenprodukte und Abfälle 6 N2 - Since the recycling of tantalum bearing post-consumer waste is practically not existent, metallurgical residues are the most important feed for the tantalum recycling. Most tin ores naturally contain significant quantities of refractory metals. During the smelting process in primary tin production these elements are enriched in the slag phase. This slag is a highly valuable raw material for tantalum production due to its considerable concentration of tantalum and its functioning as an additional slag former in further pyrometallurgical treatment. In this paper the first process stage of an existing pyrometallurgical process for tantalum recovery, mainly from low grade pyrometallurgical residues, is discussed. Smelting trials were carried out in a pilot-scale electric arc furnace to analyse the effect of feeding on the activity of carbon as a reducing agent. Therefore, blowing petroleum coke through an iron lance and the manual adding of coke into the melting bath were tested. During the pyrometallurgical treatment elements with a high affinity to carbon were reduced to their carbide form and enriched in the molten iron-based metal phase. The objective of the process was to reduce the oxidic tantalum completely and to enrich it into the metal phase. Furthermore, the transfer of unwanted elements such as titanium into the metal phase was aimed to be avoided. Spoon test specimens were taken from the liquid mineral melt to follow the evolution of the reduction process. The cooled down solidified melting bath was investigated by using the XRD and EDX method to characterise the slag system and to identify relevant mineral phases. PB - Thomé-Kozmiensky Verlag GmbH CY - Neuruppin T2 - Berliner Konferenz Mineralische Nebenprodukte und Abfälle CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 13.05.2019 KW - Zinnschlacke KW - Tantal KW - Recycling KW - Pyrometallurgie KW - Lichtbogenofen PY - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48357 AN - OPUS4-48357 SN - 978-3-944310-47-3 VL - 6 SP - 378 EP - 393 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany