Abstract: Process and apparatus for the treatment of light metals. The present invention pertains to a process for the treatment of mixtures of at least one light metal and at least one nonmetallic phase, formed of at least one oxide of a light metal, particularly of slag and waste metals for a subsequent process for the separation of the metallic phase as well as an apparatus for carrying out the process or the preparation of the mixture for disintegration, wherein the mixture, slag or waste metals and, if necessary, additions for the formation of a charge, are loaded into a treatment container or receptacle, overheated a maximum of 380.degree. C. and the phases, via motion, are dispersed and/or held in dispersement, whereafter the homogenized charge, set up with the parameters for the subsequent process, is removed and subjected to separation.

Abstract: Method for the extraction of the metallic phase from dispersed mixtures of light metals and nonmetallic components. The invention pertains to an advantageous method for the extraction of the metallic phase from a dispersed mixture comprised of at least one light metal and at least one nonmetallic phase and, if applicable, at least the partial separation of the nonmetallic phase. The temperature of the dispersed mixture is raised to a temperature in the region above the melting temperature of the metal or alloy; the heated mixture is then inserted into an apparatus, subjected to an acceleration, and disintegrated, with the metallic phase thereafter being coalesced, collected and allowed to proceed to solidification.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for de-metallization of metal-containing residues, dross, slags and the like that accumulate during thermal processes in metallurgical and scrap metal reclamation processes which consists of that the metal/non-metal phase mixture is fed into a centrifuge mold at a temperature within the mentioned temperature range or after having been fed into it is brought to the temperature mentioned, there in a first process phase, while maintaining the temperature within the mentioned range, it is subjected to radial acceleration for a specified time until a required degree of de-metallization is achieved and that in a second phase of the process by maintaining the radial acceleration by means of rotation at least the metallic phase, separated and removed from the phase mixture and arranged on the outside periphery is brought to solidification or setting by lowering its temperature, after which the metal phase when reaching the handling temperature is removed as at least one body whose out