| abstract |
A method for recovering stainless steel from a waste stream of slags formed during the production of stainless steel under dry conditions, comprising the steps of crushing at least part of the waste stream of slags under substantially dry conditions in a primary crushing circuit to form a primary crushed fraction of waste pieces comprising stainless steel-containing scrap pieces which have been released from the slags, screening the primary crushed fraction to produce at least a primary coarse and fine subfraction, recovering stainless steel-containing scrap pieces from the primary coarse subfraction with the aid of a sensor separator, the sensor separator measuring properties of the waste pieces guided past it, in particular attenuation of inductances thereof, and the sensor separator actuating blowing nozzles as a function of the measured value in order to blow relevant stainless steel-containing scrap pieces out of the primary coarse subfraction guided past the sensor separator. Immediately after the sensor separation, slag pieces which still contain stainless steel are selected so as to be separated from slag pieces which do not contain stainless steel, by means of a neodymium magnet. The stainless steel-containing slag pieces pass through to the crushing circuit for the further release of stainless steel. The slag which does not contain stainless steel is then immediately an end product. |