Recovery Technology of Zinc from Hydrometallurgical Zinc Residues

Abstract

In this work, it was aimed to select and propose a feasible as well as an applicable method, or series of methods for the extraction of zinc. After determination of the components of the residue, water leaching, acid leaching and roasting-leaching were performed to reclaim Zn. Roasting-leaching was found to be effectively for Zn extraction by controlling acid mass, roasting duration and temperature as parameters. At the optimum conditions, 0.7 times the amount of H2SO4 at 250 °C for 150 min in roasting, 82.05% of initial Zn content was extracted.