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Carbochlorination of Fly Ash in a Fused Salt Slurry Reactor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

M. S. Dobbins  and
G. Burnet
M. S. Dobbins
Affiliation:
Chemical Engineering, Corning Glass Works, Corning, NY 14831.
G. Burnet
Affiliation:
Ames Laboratory, U.S.D.O.E. and Department of Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.
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Abstract

Carbochlorination of the metal oxides in fly ash by suspending the solid reactants in a NaCl-AlCl3 melt at 530–850°C and then sparging chlorine into the melt has been investigated. A mechanically agitated, semi-batch reactor was used to test the effects of temperature, oxide and carbon loading, salt composition and gas flow on the reaction rate. The process was modeled using the carbochlorination of pure alumina, the rate of which was found to be chemical reaction controlled at temperatures below about 650°C and gas-liquid mass transfer controlled at higher temperature. The carbochlorination rate of the mixed oxides in coal fly ash was also mass transfer controlled at higher temperatures when aluminum recoveries were less than about 50%. At higher aluminum recoveries, the overall rate was limited by the rate of ash dissolution into the melt.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 86: Symposium N – Fly Ash and Coal Conversion By-Products III , 1986 , 381
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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