Improvement in vanadium-containing titanomagnetite processing technology

Abstract

The article describes the modern technology of iron smelting from vanadium-containing titanomagnetite. The complex of research presented by the NTMK team and the leading research teams of the Ural Institute of metals, the metallurgical Institute of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Ural Federal University is the basis for achieving high productivity of the blast furnaces EVRAZ NTMK. The presented research and development works are the basis for the technology of metallurgical processing of vanadium-containing titanomagnetite. The developed technology makes it possible to achieve high rates of melting intensity and total consumption of carbon contained in the fuel. Such indicators are achieved by reconstruction, namely by changing the line of the working space of the blast furnace. Modern loading devices were used, energy-efficient technology of coal-dust fuel intake was introduced, and the oxygen content in the air was increased. Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of the domain process and problems of domain melting of titanomagnetite. Particular attention is paid to the implementation of measures to reduce the content of titanium in cast iron. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.