| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Materials Processing Fundamentals
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| Presentation Title |
Modeling of Macro-scale Reaction Effects in a Secondary Lead Reverberatory Furnace |
| Author(s) |
Nicholas J. Walla, Emily A Higley, Armin K Silaen, Alexandra Anderson, Joseph Grogan, Chenn Q Zhou |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Nicholas J. Walla |
| Abstract Scope |
A long-standing and effective way to recycle lead-acid battery materials is through processing of lead compounds into lead product within a reverberatory furnace. Exploration of process and design changes through unit modification can be costly, time consuming, and potentially harmful to operational efficiency. Modeling of process behavior, including furnace heat transfer and material reduction/decomposition, can however be difficult. To this end, a method for reflecting the production capabilities of a lead reverberatory furnace under various operational conditions has been developed. Reactions of the lead compounds have been approximated within a steady-state computational fluid dynamics simulation by adding or removing heat from the domain depending on local thermal conditions. With this, process and design changes can be explored in the simulated environment before moving onto more-advanced stages of modeling or experimentation. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Pyrometallurgy, Recycling and Secondary Recovery |