Abstract: A method for making an agglomerate of an ore is disclosed. The method comprises contacting the ore with an acid solution and a stucco binder. The stucco binder may include calcium sulfate hemihydrate. The ore agglomerate may include ore, acid solution, and stucco-derived gypsum.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic filter device for molten metal filtration comprising a major ceramic phase and a minor carbon phase bonded by phosphate bond, a method for producing such filter devices, and the use of such filter devices for the filtration of molten steel.

Abstract: The process for agglomerating and passivating the pulverulent used material and/or the pulverulent fines resulting from the production of organohalosilanes, comprises the mixing of this used material and/or fines with a binder chosen from aluminum silicates and the production of a solid agglomerated product by compression in a press, such as a roll type briquette machine. The invention also relates to the agglomerated product thus obtained and to its use in the recovery of certain metals, such as silicon and copper.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-resistant material for a low-melting metal casting machine, which comprises calcium silicate and a fluoride.

Abstract: The inventive method for producing refractory high-strength spherical granules consists in separately presintering kaolin and bauxite in a rotational furnace, jointly sintering said components in order to produce a charging material, granulating, drying and screening said charging material, sintering said granules in the rotational furnace and screening the sintered granules. Said sintered kaoline is produced by sintering at a temperature ranging from 1400 to 1500 DEG C so far as a water absorption of 5% is attained for kaoline containing 40-45 mass % and a free quartz in a quantity equal to or greater than 60 mass %. The Al2O3:SiO2 ratio in the charging material is equal to 1:1 at the following charging material component ratio: 36-67 mass % sintered kaolin and the rest being sintered bauxite.

Abstract: A method and composition for removing sulfur from molten ferrous material, particularly molten pig iron. The desulfurization agent includes a magnesium particle coated with a heat absorbing compound. The heat absorbing compound absorbs heat around the magnesium particle to reduce the rate the magnesium particle vaporizes in the molten iron. The particle size of the magnesium particle is at least about twice the particle size of the heat absorbing compound. A bonding agent can be used to bond the particles of the heat absorbing compound to the particle of magnesium.

Abstract: Briquettes of either technical or chemical grade molybdenum oxide and a binding material selected from the group consisting of (a) sodium hydroxide, and (b) a binding composition comprising (i) at least one of ammonium and an alkali metal hydroxide, and (ii) an inert filler that has a d.sub.80 particle size at least about the same d.sub.80 particle size of the molybdenum oxide exhibit excellent resistance to breakage and dusting.

Abstract: A method of recovering steel plant waste revert materials including blast furnace flue dust and sludges involves mixing the revert materials with water to provide a total moisture content of about 14-20% by weight, then adding Portland cement as a sole binder, mixing, and, when the water content is limited to about 18 to 20%, casting the mixture onto the ground in the form of a slab or, when the water content is limited to about 14 to 16% and an accelerator for curing the cement is used, casting the mixture onto a conveyor in the form of preformed streams, curing the cast mixture and breaking it up to provide 1/2 inch to 5 inch agglomerate particles that can be recycled to the blast furnace.

Abstract: An agent for desulfurization, dephosphorization, desiliconizing, and denitriding of ironmelt and melt containing chromium or manganese, consisting of at least one of the following mineral raw-material: alkali-containing plagioclase (feldspar), alkali-containing orthoclase, montmorillonite (perlite), bentonite, muscovite, or zeolithe, and calcium carbide and/or calcium oxide.These mixtures can be blended further with scale, Fe-ores, Cr-ores or Mn-ores and used by standard technologies. The mineralic components, in connection with calcium carbide, lime, iron-ore or scale or other related ores, cause an effective reduction of unwanted elements, such as sulfur, phosphorus, silicium, and nitrogen, in the metal melts.The slags produced are freely skimmed and contain less iron granules than standard agents. Some of these materials may be enriched with alkali oxides by sintering or melting with appropriate compounds, like soda ash.

Abstract: A process for recovery of copper from a copper residue obtained during purification of a zinc sulfate solution comprises leaching the copper residue in a concentrated sulfuric acid solution in the presence of an oxidant at a temperature of between 60.degree. and 80.degree. C. and separating the solids from the leach solution, electrowinning copper from the leach solution, returning the electrolyte solution to the initial leaching stage to initiate dissolution of the copper residue, and bleeding a portion of the electrolyte solution to reduce the concentration of impurities in the solution.