Effects of Temperature on Fe and Ti in Carbothermic Reduction of Vanadium Titanomagnetite with adding MgO
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University of Science and Technology, Beijing
 
 
Publication date: 2019-05-27
 
 
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Jue Kou   

University of Science and Technology, Beijing
 
 
Physicochem. Probl. Miner. Process. 2019;55(4):917-927
 
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Effects of temperature on Fe and Ti in carbothermic reduction of vanadium titanomagnetite (VTM) concentrate with adding MgO at 1100~1500℃ were investigated. It was found that most of Fe in the VTM concentrate existed in the form of magnetite and a small amount existed as ilmenite; Ti in the VTM concentrate was mainly present in the form of ilmenite. The temperature had significant effects on Fe and Ti: increasing temperature was beneficial to decrease the Fe content in the magnesium titanate mixture, and the Fe content could decrease to 5.47% at 1500℃. Thermodynamic analysis showed that FeTiO3 and MgO preferentially reacted to form Mg2TiO4, followed by MgTiO3 and MgTi2O5 when the temperature increased from 1100℃ to 1500℃. Results of X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy analyzes showed that an intermediate product of MgFe2O4 would formed at 1300~1400℃ in the actual experiment. This caused the Fe content in the magnesium titanate mixture to increase from 21.32% to 22.85% when the temperature increased from 1200℃ to 1400℃. In addition, the size of magnesium titanate particles could increase from a few microns to approximately 100 µm when the temperature increased from 1100℃ to 1500℃, which was conducive to realize the separation of metallic iron and magnesium titanate.
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