A new treatment process to recover magnetite, zinc and lead from iron and steelmaking dusts and sludges

Steelmaking dusts are frequently classified as hazardous residues, due to their eco-toxicity characteristics. This derives mainly from the presence of heavy metals like zinc, lead and cadmium in their compositions, in forms that are easily leachable by water or slightly acidic or alkaline media. Following the most employed eco-toxicity standard tests, like DIN 38414-S41) from Germany, and TCLP (Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure)2) from the United States, steelmaking dusts present a high level of mobility of heavy metals, what is relevant for the evaluation of their environmental impact, when disposed in controlled landfills. In the present project (contract number ERB IC 15CT97-0704), a new process is being developed to recover valuable metals and products from steelmaking dusts and sludges. Two different process routes are being evaluated, both from the technical and from the economic points of view. A pre-treatment stage, based on water leaching of the dusts, is, in both cases, studied, to remove alkalis present in the wastes

Characterization and pre-treatment of steelmaking dusts in order to recover valuable products

Steelmaking dusts are frequently classified as hazardous residues, due to their eco-toxicity characteristics. This derives mainly from the presence of heavy metals like zinc, lead and cadmium in their compositions, in forms that are easily leachable by water or slightly acidic or alkaline media. Following the most employed eco-toxicity standard tests, like DIN 38414-S41) from Germany, and TCLP (Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure)2) from the United States, steelmaking dusts present a high level of mobility of heavy metals, what is relevant for the evaluation of their environmental impact, when disposed in controlled landfills. By this work, financed by the European Communities COPERNICUS Programme, a characterisation of the dusts generated in different steelmaking plants has been done. Also, the behaviour of the dusts when washed with cold water has been evaluated, giving some informations on the mobility of metals and on the prospects for pre- treatment of the residues to recover valuable products

Orthogonalities and functional equations

In this survey we show how various notions of orthogonality appear in the theory of functional equations. After introducing some orthogonality relations, we give examples of functional equations postulated for orthogonal vectors only. We show their solutions as well as some applications. Then we discuss the problem of stability of some of them considering various aspects of the problem. In the sequel, we mention the orthogonality equation and the problem of preserving orthogonality. Last, but not least, in addition to presenting results, we state some open problems concerning these topics. Taking into account the big amount of results concerning functional equations postulated for orthogonal vectors which have appeared in the literature during the last decades, we restrict ourselves to the most classical equations

A general class of iterative equations on the unit circle

summary:A class of functional equations with nonlinear iterates is discussed on the unit circle ${\mathbb{T}}^1$. By lifting maps on ${\mathbb{T}}^1$ and maps on the torus ${\mathbb{T}}^n$ to Euclidean spaces and extending their restrictions to a compact interval or cube, we prove existence, uniqueness and stability for their continuous solutions