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Thermal Analysis Study on the Carbothermic Reduction of Chromite Ore with the Addition of Mill Scale
Author(s) -
Hu Xianfeng,
Yang Qixing,
Sundqvist Ökvist Lena,
Björkman Bo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.201500131
Subject(s) - chromite , mill scale , metallurgy , chromium , materials science , coke , thermogravimetric analysis , isothermal process , mill , alloy , chemical engineering , chemistry , engineering , physics , thermodynamics
This paper presents a fundamental study on the carbothermic reduction of chromite ore with the addition of mill scale, which forms the basis for designing an alloying precursor, “chromite ore + mill scale + carbon,” for direct chromium alloying. The reduction of chromite ore by petroleum coke with or without the addition of mill scale is investigated by Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) under non‐isothermal conditions (from room temperature to 1823 K) in the argon atmosphere; the fractional reduced samples were characterized by SEM/EDS and XRD analyses. The experimental results show that the mill scale in the alloying mixture is reduced to high active iron first and disseminated around the chromite ore particles; the reduction of chromite ore is enhanced with the addition of mill scale especially at temperatures higher than 1623 K, and the enhancing effect increased with increasing mill scale addition. The enhancing effect is attributed to the presence of molten Fe–C alloy in the vicinity of chromite ore, which can decrease the thermodynamic activity of chromium by having chromium in situ dissolve into the melt.