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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2013
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
At the beginning of a dezincification plant used in a dezincification step in a hydrometallurgical method for nickel, a decrease throughout the dezincification plant is controlled to prevent a decrease in production volume and a cake layer is formed on a filter cloth provided to a filter device inside the dezincification plant. At the beginning of dezincification plant, a slurry containing a formed zinc sulfide is supplied to a filter for filtration and separation, an adjustment is performed in which the flow rate of the slurry is increased to reach a target flow rate in a time Twhich satisfies the following relational expression 3×T≦T≦5×T, where Trepresents the time between starting a slurry supply and attaining the target flow rate in the case of transferring the slurry at the maximum liquid transfer capacity of a pump configured to transfer the slurry.