A Study of the Possibility of Producing Annealed and Metallized Pellets from Titanomagnetite Concentrate

Andrey N. Dmitriev; Galina Y. Vitkina; Victor G. Zlobin; Elena A. Vyaznikova; Larisa A. Marshuk; Yulia E. Burova; Roman V. Alektorov; Vladimir V. Kataev

doi:10.3390/ma17215338

Materials (Oct 2024)

A Study of the Possibility of Producing Annealed and Metallized Pellets from Titanomagnetite Concentrate

Andrey N. Dmitriev,
Galina Y. Vitkina,
Victor G. Zlobin,
Elena A. Vyaznikova,
Larisa A. Marshuk,
Yulia E. Burova,
Roman V. Alektorov,
Vladimir V. Kataev

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Andrey N. Dmitriev: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Galina Y. Vitkina: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Victor G. Zlobin: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Elena A. Vyaznikova: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Larisa A. Marshuk: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Yulia E. Burova: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Roman V. Alektorov: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Vladimir V. Kataev: Laboratory of Pyrometallurgy of Reduction Processes, Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101 Amundsen St., 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17215338
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 21
p. 5338

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The current intensive development of steelmaking is being impeded by a scarcity of pure scrap. The potential to replace pure scrap with metallized raw materials that are naturally alloyed with vanadium and titanium, such as annealed unfluxed titanomagnetite pellets, could facilitate the achievement of key objectives in metallurgical development, particularly in the smelting of electric steel. The objective of this research was to produce annealed and metallized pellets from titanomagnetite concentrate under laboratory conditions, with the intention of further processing them as a commercial product in a blast furnace or as an intermediate product for the production of hot briquetted iron (HBI). The results demonstrate that pellets derived from titanomagnetite concentrate exhibit sufficient compressive strength (up to 300 kg/pellet) and a degree of metallization exceeding 90%, which aligns with the requirements for electric steelmaking. The suitability of pellets derived from titanomagnetite concentrate for use in both blast furnaces and metallization processes has been corroborated.

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ISSN: 1996-1944 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering; Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); Science: Natural history (General): Microscopy; Science: Physics: Descriptive and experimental mechanics
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