Industrial Waste Materials--Déchets Industriels
Atlas Stainless Steels is a maker of stainless products and owns a plant in Tracy, Québec where sheets of stainless steels are rolled. This brown dust comes from the anti-pollution system of the melting department and has the following general formula:
FE2O3 58%
CR2O3 14%
NIO 5.0%
MNO 7.0%
CAO 7.0%
MGO 6.0%
SIO2 3.0%
TOTAL 100%
This waste material was 170 mesh sieved.
A theoritical substitution is as follows for each
1% of the stuff :
Red Iron Oxide 0.702
Green Chromium Oxide 0.161
Black Nickel Oxide 0.031
Manganese Dioxide 0.046
Dolomite 0.092
Silica 0.014
Totals 1.046
Slater Dust :
Slater Steels owns a steel plant in Sorel-Tracy by the name of Les Forges de Sorel, a maker of special alloyed steels often used by the nuclear industry, makers of tools and surgical instruments.
This material comes from the anti-pollution system of the steel melting department.
Slater Dust has the following general analysis :
SiO2 5.21%
Fe2O3 46.95
CaO 10.85
MgO 2.91
ZnO 30.68
PbO 3.39
Also small amounts of nickel, chromium, molybdenum, cadmium,
and manganese.
A possible substitution for 1% of this stuff is as follows :
Dolomite .135
Whiting .120
Lead bisilicate .052 (High alumina)
Zinc oxide (calc.) .310
Silica .034
Red Iron Oxide .470
Total 1.121
QIT Red Dust :
QIT stands for Quebec Iron and Titanium. QIT owns an ilmenite mine in northeastern Quebec.The ore is shipped to Tracy where it is processed to titanium dioxide slag, iron pigs, steel billetsand steel autoparts. This dust comes from the dust collecting system of the steelmelting departmentand has the following general formula:
FE2O3………………. 85%
SIO2 ………………….5.0%
CAO ………………….5.0%
MGO …………………1.0%
ZNO ………………….2.0%
CARBON ……………2.0%
TOTAL ……………100%
It was 170 mesh sieved.A theoritical substitution is as follows for each 1% of the stuff :
Red Iron Oxide ………..0.820
Silica …………………..0.050
Whiting ………………..0.060
Dolomite………………0.050
Zinc oxide …………….0.020
Total…………………..1.000