The Effects of Oxidative Pretreatment of Zinc-containing Dust on Contents of Iron and Manganese in Ammoniacal Leaching Solution and Product ion of Zinc Oxide

The zinc-containing dust was oxidatively pretreated with calcium hypochlorite,subsequently leached with ammonia/ammonium bicarbonate solution to obtain the ammoniacal leaching solution,and zinc oxide was produced by ammonia distillation of the ammoniacal leaching solution and subsequent calcination. The elements of iron and manganese could not be detected in ammoniacal leaching solution,and the extraction rate of zinc was 98.2% in ammoniacal leaching process. The zinc oxide content in the product is 99.5%(ω),and the contents of iron and manganese in the product were 0.002 8‰ and 0.000 84‰(ω), respectively. The analyses of the valence states of iron and manganese in the zinc-containing dust with and without pretreatment were performed by chemical analysis and XPS,and the possible oxidation mechanism of the oxidative pretreatment of the dust was discussed. It is concluded that Fe 2+-oxide and Mn 2+-oxide in the dust were oxidized to Fe 3+-oxide and/or its hydrate and Mn 4+-oxide and/or its hydrate by calcium hypochlorite during the oxidative pretreatment process,respectively.