Preparation of iron tailings glass-ceramics by sol-gel method

Abstract

For the preparation of glass-ceramics by iron tailings, the sintering and melting methods have been used in the past, but the two methods are short of high energy consumption. In this test, the sol-gel method has been adopted. Because the sol-gel method requires high purity to prepare raw materials, and there are many impurities in iron tailings, which is inconsistent with the preparation requirements of sol-gel method. Therefore, in this experiment, useful elements in iron tailings were extracted. Iron tailings were obtained by thermal-alkali reaction, and Fe was obtained by acid reaction, so as to prepare Ca-Mg-Al-Si system glass-ceramics. After the preparation of sol-gel, the basic glass was obtained, and after nucleation and crystallization, the microcrystalline glass whose main phase was diopside was obtained.