Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP160101711

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP160101711

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Phosphorous and iron recovery from steelmaking slag for effective recycling. This project aims to understand the principles that control phosphorus (P) partitioning in steel plant slags and to optimise the treatment process to produce P- and Fe-rich streams for recycling. Changing ore grades in Australia, especially increasing P content, are placing a substantial proportion of these ore products at a competitive disadvantage. The project will use an integrated approach to demonstrate, experimentally and theoretically, how key properties of slags can be manipulated to enhance partitioning and couple this analysis with fluid dynamics to model the kinetics of the separation process. The expected outcomes of this research are to: first, provide possible solutions to address the increasing P content in Australian iron ores, which could place future ore products at a competitive disadvantage within the global iron ore market; and second, to identify treatment methods and practices which would promote higher recycling rates of steelmaking slag, significantly reducing the volume of material stockpiled or sent to landfill.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-12-2017

End Date: 03-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy | Pyrometallurgy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified | Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified | Pyrometallurgy | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy

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