Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a multi-effect novel reverse flotation inhibitor for iron ore, a synthetic method and a using method thereof based on the physicochemical characteristics and the crystal chemical properties of the fine iron ore and the supermolecule hydrogen bond association performance and the hydrophilic performance of a multi-polar functional group polymer agent on the surface of the iron ore, and aims to solve the problem of efficient development and utilization of the fine iron ore.
The multi-effect novel reverse flotation inhibitor for iron ore is prepared by the cross-linking polymerization reaction of a starch chitosan mixture formed by mixing natural starch and chitosan, industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and algin. The modified starch chitosan mixture can also be obtained by modifying the starch chitosan mixture by chlorohydrin and chloroacetic acid and then carrying out polymerization reaction with industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and algin. The preparation process comprises the following steps:
step 1: preparing a starch chitosan mixture or/and a modified starch chitosan mixture:
and mixing the natural starch and the chitosan according to the mass ratio of (1-3) to 1 to obtain the starch chitosan mixture.
Adding the starch chitosan mixture into an ethanol solution with the mass concentration of more than 95% to prepare starch milk with the mass concentration of 20% -40%; continuously stirring the starch milk, adding sodium hydroxide which is 10-20% of the total mass of the starch chitosan mixture for reaction, controlling the reaction temperature to be 40-60 ℃, and reacting for 1-2 h; after reacting for 1-2h, adding chloroacetic alcohol and chloroacetic acid into starch milk according to the mass ratio of (0.5-2):1, wherein the total dosage of the chloroacetic acid and the chloroacetic alcohol is 20-30% of the total mass of the starch chitosan mixture, controlling the reaction temperature to be 50-80 ℃, reacting for 2-4h, neutralizing the starch milk with hydrochloric acid or oxalic acid and other solutions after the reaction is finished, and filtering, washing and drying to obtain the modified starch chitosan mixture.
The modification of the starch chitosan mixture is to improve the selectivity of the starch medicament and the action energy of the starch medicament and iron minerals by etherifying hydroxyl groups in starch and chitosan, improve the molecular structure and functional group characteristics of the finally formed medicament, reduce the problems of single structure and poor selectivity of the natural starch medicament by modification, and further strengthen the recovery of the prepared reverse flotation inhibitor to micro-fine particle weak magnetic iron minerals.
Taking chloroacetic acid as an example, the modified starch has the following chemical reaction formula:
(C6H11O6)n+nNaOH=(C6H10O6Na)n+nH2O
(C6H10O6Na)n+nClCH2COOH=(C6H10O6-CH2COOH)n+nNaCl
the chemical reaction formula of the modified chitosan is as follows:
(C6H11NO4)n+nNaOH=(C6H10NO4Na)n+nH2O
(C6H10NO4Na)n+nClCH2COOH=(C6H10NO4-CH2COOH)n+nNaCl
step 2: polymerization reaction:
mixing a starch chitosan mixture or/and a modified starch chitosan mixture (which refers to a starch chitosan mixture alone or a modified starch chitosan mixture alone or a mixture of the two, and the starch chitosan mixture or/and the modified starch chitosan mixture is hereinafter referred to as a "mixture") with industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and algin according to a mixture ratio: industrial carboxymethyl cellulose: the mass ratio of the algin is (1-2): 1:2, adding water to prepare an emulsion with the mass concentration of 20-40%, then adding phosphorus oxychloride and sodium chloride for reaction, wherein the adding amount of the phosphorus oxychloride and the sodium chloride is 0.2-1% and 3-5% of the total mass of the mixture, the industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin respectively, adjusting the pH value to 8-10 in the reaction process, controlling the reaction temperature to 60-80 ℃, reacting for 2-4h, neutralizing, filtering, washing and drying after the reaction, and obtaining a filtered solid product which is a multi-efficiency novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor, wherein the structural schematic diagram is shown in fig. 1. The multi-effect novel reverse flotation inhibitor for the iron ore can be prepared into an aqueous solution with the mass concentration of 1-5% for later use.
And (2) carrying out polymerization reaction on the mixture, the industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin, respectively generating phosphoric acid diester from hydroxyl in the mixture and hydroxyl in the industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin through phosphorus oxychloride, and further enabling the starch chitosan mixture, the carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin to form a cross-linked structure through free radical polymerization reaction of the phosphoric acid diester. The starch chitosan mixture or/and the modified starch chitosan mixture are polymerized with industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and algin through a cross-linking polymerization reaction, and the chain-shaped polymer is cross-linked into a net shape, so that the molecular structure of the medicament can be further improved, the molecular weight of the medicament is improved, the dosage of the medicament is greatly reduced, the use of starch medicaments of grain crops is greatly reduced, and the consumption of the grain crops in the reverse flotation operation of iron ores is reduced.
The invention also comprises a method for applying the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor to iron ore reverse flotation, which comprises the following steps:
on the basis of the process flow of 'grinding classification-low-intensity magnetic separation-high-intensity magnetic separation-mixed magnetic concentrate reverse flotation' of the conventional iron ore, a two-section dosing method is adopted, firstly, the iron ore is ground and classified, the ground and classified product is subjected to low-intensity magnetic separation and high-gradient high-intensity magnetic separation to obtain a mixed magnetic concentrate product, and the multi-efficiency novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor is added into the high-intensity magnetic separation ore (namely, low-intensity magnetic tailings) according to the 200g/t of the mass of the ore sample before the high-intensity magnetic separation is carried out; the mixed magnetic concentrate product is prepared into ore pulp with the mass fraction of 30-40%, and the iron concentrate product is obtained by reverse flotation, wherein the reverse flotation inhibitor adopted in the reverse flotation process is the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor, and the dosage is 500-800g/t of the mass of the reverse flotation ore sample.
The specific method for carrying out the bulk magnetic concentrate ore pulp reverse flotation by using the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor comprises the following steps:
firstly, adding sodium hydroxide to adjust the pH value of ore pulp to 10.5-11.5, then sequentially adding 800g/t of multi-effect novel reverse flotation inhibitor for the iron ore according to the mass of the ore sample, 800g/t of gangue mineral activating agent such as lime or calcium chloride according to the mass of 600-800g/t of the ore sample, 500g/t of sodium oleate or saponified paraffin oil according to the mass of 300-800 g/t of the ore sample as a collecting agent and 30-50g/t of second oil according to the mass of the ore sample as a foaming agent, fully mixing pulp, feeding the mixture into a flotation machine for reverse flotation operation, and sequentially carrying out primary reverse flotation roughing, primary concentration and tertiary scavenging to finally obtain the qualified iron concentrate product.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. in the preparation process of the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor, firstly, a characteristic functional group is introduced into a natural starch medicament and a chitosan molecular structure through chemical modification, and in order to solve the problems of single structure and poor selectivity of the natural starch medicament, the modified starch, industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and algin are subjected to polymerization reaction, so that the medicament dosage is greatly reduced, the consumption of grain crops in iron ore reverse flotation operation is reduced, and the recovery of micro-fine particle weak magnetic iron minerals is further enhanced by improving the molecular structure and the functional group characteristics of the medicament.
2. In the using method of the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor, the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor is firstly added into the feeding ore of the strong magnetic separation through a sectional medicine adding method, and the bridging agglomeration of the high molecular medicament is utilized to enable the micro-fine particle weak magnetic iron ore to form a firm chain and net structure, thereby improving the capture efficiency of the magnetic separator on the micro-fine particle iron ore, meanwhile, as the molecular structure of the medicament contains a large number of multi-polar iron-philic hydrophilic characteristic functional groups, the action time of the medicament and iron minerals can be fully prolonged by adding the medicament in advance, the inhibition performance of the medicament on the iron minerals is remarkably improved, and the firm chain-like and net-like structures formed by the micro-fine iron minerals under the action of the high molecular medicament further reduce the water flow and foam entrainment of the micro-fine iron minerals in the reverse flotation process, reduce the loss of the iron minerals and remarkably improve the separation index.
Detailed Description
The following examples are given to illustrate the present invention, but are not intended to limit the invention:
example 1
Taking a certain lean magnetite-hematite mixed iron ore in Hebei as a raw material, wherein the TFe grade in an ore sample is 25.64 percent, and SiO2The content is 70.32 percent, and the granularity of the ground ore product is-0.038 mu m accounting for 65.85 percent. The specific implementation steps are as follows:
(1) mixing corn starch and chitosan according to a mass ratio of 1:1 in a hydrothermal constant-temperature reaction kettle to form a starch chitosan mixture, adding the starch chitosan mixture into an ethanol solution with a mass concentration of more than 95%, wherein the using amount of the corn starch is 10kg, preparing starch milk with a mass concentration of 20%, continuously stirring, adding a sodium hydroxide solution with a mass concentration of 10% for reaction, controlling the reaction temperature to be 40 ℃, and reacting for 2 hours.
(2) After reacting for 3 hours, adding chloroethanol and chloroacetic acid into a reaction kettle according to the mass ratio of 0.5:1, wherein the total amount of the chloroethanol and the chloroacetic acid is 20% of the mass of the starch chitosan mixture, controlling the reaction temperature to be 50 ℃, and after reacting for 4 hours, adding the starch milk into an oxalic acid solution with the concentration of 10% for neutralization, filtering, washing and drying to obtain a modified starch chitosan mixture for later use;
(3) mixing a modified starch chitosan mixture, industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and algin according to a mass ratio of 1:1:2 to prepare an emulsion with the concentration of 20%, then adding the modified starch chitosan mixture, the industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin with the total mass of 0.2% of phosphorus oxychloride and 3% of sodium chloride into a reaction kettle to react, regulating the pH value of a solution to be 9.0, controlling the reaction temperature to be 60 ℃, reacting for 2 hours, adding an oxalic acid solution with the concentration of 10% after the reaction is finished to neutralize, filter, wash and dry to obtain a multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor, and preparing the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor into an aqueous solution with the concentration of 5% for later use.
(4) In the process of separating iron ore, as shown in fig. 2, a two-stage dosing method is adopted, firstly, iron ore raw materials are ground and classified, weak magnetic concentrate and weak magnetic tailings are respectively obtained by carrying out primary weak magnetic separation on ground and classified products of the iron ore, a multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor is added into the weak magnetic tailings (strong magnetic separation feeding ore) according to the mass of an ore sample of 100g/t, high gradient strong magnetic separation is carried out to obtain strong magnetic concentrate and strong magnetic tailings, the two magnetic concentrate products of the weak magnetic concentrate and the strong magnetic concentrate are mixed and pulp-mixed to obtain ore pulp with the mass concentration of 35%, and the following substances are sequentially added into the ore pulp: the method comprises the following steps of (1) carrying out reverse flotation and roughing on the slurry for 3min by using a pH value regulator sodium hydroxide (regulating the pH value of ore slurry to be 11.0), a multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor (using amount to be 400g/t), an activator lime (using amount to be 600g/t), a collector sodium oleate (using amount to be 300g/t), and a foaming agent No. two oil (using amount to be 30g/t), wherein the roughing time is 4 min; carrying out concentration twice on the roughed concentrate, wherein the using amount of an activator lime is 300g/t, the using amount of a collecting agent sodium oleate is 200g/t, the pH value of ore pulp is controlled to be 11.50, and the concentration time is 3min, so as to obtain the final concentrate of reverse flotation; and (4) carrying out scavenging on the rougher tailings twice, controlling the pH value of the ore pulp to be 11.50, and carrying out scavenging for 3min to obtain the reverse flotation final tailings.
The iron grade of the concentrate finally obtained by the method is 65.5 percent, the iron recovery rate is 94.5 percent, and the results of the primary accounting of technical and economic indexes show that compared with the original conventional iron ore dressing process, the method can increase the iron concentrate yield by 30.84 kilotons every year, reduce the tailing discharge by 18.25 kilotons and reduce the starch consumption by 680 kilotons, meanwhile, the iron grade of the concentrate is increased by 1.25 percent, the iron recovery rate is increased by 8.32 percent, and the economic benefit is increased by about 2.83 million yuan every year.
Example 2
The same as in example 1 elsewhere, except that: the preparation processes of the modified starch chitosan mixture in the steps (1) and (2) are not carried out, the corn starch and the chitosan are directly mixed according to the mass ratio of 1:1 in the step (3) to form the starch chitosan mixture, and the modified starch chitosan mixture in the step (3) is replaced and mixed with the industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin. The proper dosage of the prepared inhibitor in the ore pulp is 900g/t, the iron grade of the obtained ore concentrate is 64.5 percent, the iron recovery rate is 87.63 percent,
comparative example 3
The raw materials and the method are basically the same as example 1, except that the reverse flotation inhibitor is a mixture of corn starch and carboxymethyl cellulose in a mass ratio of (1:1), the appropriate amount of the reverse flotation inhibitor in the ore pulp is 1000g/t, and the iron concentrate finally obtained has an iron grade of 64.25% and an iron recovery rate of 84.54% through detection.
Comparative example 4
The processing raw materials and the method are basically the same as the example 1, but the difference is that the sectional dosing is not adopted, the multi-effect novel reverse flotation inhibitor for the iron ore is only added in the reverse flotation operation, the dosage is 600g/t, the iron ore concentrate finally obtained is detected to have the iron grade of 65.20 percent, and the iron recovery rate is 87.50 percent.
Example 5
The lean magnetic red mixed iron ore in the Anshan area of Liaoning is taken as a raw material, the TFe grade in an ore sample is 29.61%, the content of SiO2 is 68.32%, and the granularity of an ore grinding product is-0.038 mu m and accounts for 75.86%. The specific implementation steps are as follows:
(1) mixing corn starch and chitosan according to a mass ratio of 2:1 in a hydrothermal constant-temperature reaction kettle to form a starch chitosan mixture, adding the starch chitosan mixture into an ethanol solution with a mass concentration of more than 95%, wherein the using amount of the corn starch is 8.5kg, preparing starch milk with a mass concentration of 40%, continuously stirring, adding a sodium hydroxide solution with a mass concentration of 20% for reaction, controlling the reaction temperature to be 60 ℃, and reacting for 1 hour.
(2) After reacting for 1h, adding chloroethanol and chloroacetic acid into a reaction kettle according to the mass ratio of 1:1, wherein the total amount of the chloroethanol and the chloroacetic acid is 30% of the mass of the starch chitosan mixture, controlling the reaction temperature to be 60 ℃, and after reacting for 3h, adding starch milk into an oxalic acid solution with the concentration of 10% for neutralization, filtering, washing and drying to obtain a modified starch chitosan mixture for later use;
(3) mixing a modified starch chitosan mixture, industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and algin according to a mass ratio of 2:1:2 to prepare an emulsion with the concentration of 35%, then adding the modified starch chitosan mixture, the industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin with the total mass of 0.5% of phosphorus oxychloride and 5% of sodium chloride into a reaction kettle to react, regulating the pH value of a solution to be 10.0, controlling the reaction temperature to be 80 ℃, reacting for 4 hours, adding an oxalic acid solution with the concentration of 10% after the reaction is finished to neutralize, filter, wash and dry to obtain a multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor, and preparing the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor into an aqueous solution with the concentration of 5% for later use.
(4) In the process of separating iron ore, a two-stage dosing method is adopted, firstly, the raw material of iron ore is ground and classified, the ground and classified product of iron ore is subjected to one-time low-intensity magnetic separation to respectively obtain low-intensity magnetic concentrate and low-intensity magnetic tailing, a multi-effect novel reverse flotation inhibitor of iron ore is added into the low-intensity magnetic tailing (high-intensity magnetic separation feeding ore) according to the mass of an ore sample of 150g/t, high-gradient high-intensity magnetic separation is carried out to obtain high-intensity magnetic concentrate and high-intensity magnetic tailing, the two magnetic concentrate products of the low-intensity magnetic concentrate and the high-intensity magnetic concentrate are mixed and pulp-mixed to obtain ore pulp with the mass concentration of 30%, and the following substances are sequentially added into the ore pulp: the method comprises the following steps of (1) carrying out reverse flotation and roughing on the slurry for 3min by using a pH value regulator sodium hydroxide (regulating the pH value of ore slurry to be 11.5), a multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor (using amount is 500g/t), an activator lime (using amount is 800g/t), a collector sodium oleate (using amount is 400g/t), and a foaming agent II oil (using amount is 50g/t), wherein the reverse flotation and roughing are carried out for 5min after the slurry is mixed; carrying out concentration twice on the roughed concentrate, wherein the using amount of an activator lime is 300g/t, the using amount of a collecting agent sodium oleate is 250g/t, the pH value of ore pulp is controlled to be 11.50, and the concentration time is 3min, so as to obtain the final reverse flotation concentrate; and (4) carrying out scavenging on the rougher tailings twice, controlling the pH value of the ore pulp to be 11.50, and carrying out scavenging for 3min to obtain the reverse flotation final tailings.
The iron grade of the concentrate finally obtained by the method is 66.21%, the iron recovery rate is 88.20%, and the results of the primary calculation of technical and economic indexes show that compared with the original conventional iron ore dressing process, the method can increase the iron concentrate yield by 28.85 kilotons every year, reduce the tailing discharge by 20.35 kilotons, reduce the starch consumption by 560 kilotons, simultaneously increase the iron grade of the concentrate by 1.32 percentage points, improve the iron recovery rate by 9.01 percentage points, and increase the economic benefit by about 3.02 million yuan every year.
Example 6
The same as in example 1 elsewhere, except that: the preparation processes of the modified starch chitosan mixture in the steps (1) and (2) are not carried out, the corn starch and the chitosan are directly mixed according to the mass ratio of 2:1 in the step (3) to form the starch chitosan mixture, and the modified starch chitosan mixture in the step (3) is replaced and mixed with the industrial carboxymethyl cellulose and the algin. The prepared inhibitor is suitable for 850g/t in ore pulp, the iron grade of the finally obtained concentrate is 65.21%, and the iron recovery rate is 87.20%
Comparative example 7
The raw materials and the method are basically the same as example 1, except that the reverse flotation inhibitor is a mixture of corn starch and carboxymethyl cellulose in a mass ratio of (1:1), the proper dosage of the inhibitor in the ore pulp is 950g/t, and the finally obtained iron concentrate has an iron grade of 64.89% and an iron recovery rate of 76.19% through detection.
Comparative example 8
The processing raw materials and the method are basically the same as the example 1, but the difference is that the multi-effect novel iron ore reverse flotation inhibitor is only added in the reverse flotation operation without sectional dosing, the dosage is 750g/t, and the iron ore concentrate obtained finally has the iron grade of 65.18 percent and the iron recovery rate of 81.24 percent through detection.