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公开(公告)号:US20220380918A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-01
申请号:US17884198
申请日:2022-08-09
Applicant: ELECTRASTEEL, INC.
Inventor: Ai Quoc PHAM , Sandeep NIJHAWAN , Adolfredo ALVAREZ , Steven FATUR
Abstract: Methods and systems for dissolving an iron-containing ore are disclosed. For example, a method of processing and dissolving an iron-containing ore comprises: thermally reducing one or more non-magnetite iron oxide materials in the iron-containing ore to form magnetite in the presence of a reductant, thereby forming thermally-reduced ore; and dissolving at least a portion of the thermally-reduced ore using an acid to form an acidic iron-salt solution; wherein the acidic iron-salt solution comprises protons electrochemically generated in an electrochemical cell.