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Slag crusher for recycling industry

May 12, 2023 nflg 0 Comments

Slag

As we all know, Slag is a byproduct while metal smelting, and hundreds of tons of slags are produced on the earth each day during the processing of refining metals , nonmetals and making alloys. Like similar industrial waste or byproducts, slag actually has many uses, and rarely goes to waste.

Slag appears in concrete process, aggregate road materials processing, as ballast, and is sometimes used as part of phosphate fertilizer. Slags are also referred to as cinder, in reason for its dark and crumbly appearance.

Classification of Normal Slag:

Common components of slag include the oxides of silicon, aluminum, and magnesium, sulfur. Slag includes ash, phosphorous, calcium, remnants of flux materials such as limestone , and remainders of chemical reactions between the metal and the furnace lining.

While some other compounds found in slag refer to the type of raw mineral smelting . Non-ferrous smelting, used to refine copper, zinc, lead, bauxite, and similar metal minerals, produces very ferrous slag, while iron is an unwanted element. Ferrous smelting, such as that used to produce steel, creates non ferrous slags, when all the iron is used in the smelting processing.

Slag Application into Wealth

After slag is allowed to age, it can be sold for use in other industrial processes. One of the most common is as a constituent of concrete and cement. Slag works very well as a loose aggregate and can be ground to produce a more even grain.

Slag is also mixed with materials for making roadways, used as ballast on trains and large trucks, and is also applied as phosphate fertilizer. When used as fertilizer, the slag is ground very fine before being spread, and it slowly time releases nutrients because it takes a long time to break down.

Why slag crushing before industrial application?

Slag are produced hundreds of tons every day. Slag Crushing before industrial application is a necessary process for two main reasons.

One reason is that crushed slag can be refined useful element in the next stage.
The other is that crushed slag have better physical properties when recycling slag into cement, road base, etc.

Crushing process is energy-intensive operations, the basic principles of the process is broken, “more crushing less grinding.”
Slag Crushing Processing

Slag is produced during the smelting process in several ways.

Firstly, slag represents undesired impurities in the metals being smelted, which float to the top during the smelting process.

Secondly, metals start to oxidize as they are smelted, and slag forms a protective crust of oxides on the top of the metal being smelted, protecting the liquid metal underneath.

When the metal is smelted to satisfaction, the slag is skimmed from the top and disposed of in a slag heap to age. Aging slag is an important part of the process, as it needs to be exposed to the weather and allowed to break down slightly before it can be used.

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