Comprehensive Recovery of Carbon and Iron from Fly Ash

Fly ash, which is nominally solid wastes generated during the combustion of coal, contains plenty of valuable minerals. Thus, comprehensive recovery of these valuable minerals not only solves environmental pollution problems but also realizes secondary utilization and added values increase of fly ash resources. The Joint process flow of flotation and magnetic separation was adopted in the experiments to recover carbon and iron from fly ash comprehensively, and good technical indexes had been obtained. Flotation separation was conducted on a sort of fly ash whose ignition loss was about 17%. And the ignition loss of concentrates and tailings obtained are above 55% and below 5%, respectively, which can be for further use. Based on the relatively high contents of iron in flotation tailings, magnetic separation for iron enrichment was carried on subsequently. After concentration, the content of Fe2O3 in iron concentrate is above 60%.