Process for refining high-carbon ferro-alloys

Details Process for refining high-carbon ferro-alloys Process for refining high-carbon ferro-alloys

1977-11-09

1978-12-19

Rosenberg, P. D.

Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therei

Processes

Electrothermic processes

75 51, 75 52, C21C 534, C21C 706

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041304179

ABSTRACT:
A hign-carbon ferro-alloy, specifically ferrochrome or ferromanganese, is carburized in a converter in which oxygen or air is blown from below into the melt together with a surrounding protective gas. With the bath preheated to a temperature somewhat higher than the melting point of the ferro-alloy, the oxygen is introduced at such a rate that its reaction with the chromium or the manganese locally superheats the bath, in a region well below the surface and spaced from the converter walls, to a temperature high enough to let the resulting oxides react endothermically with the carbon. This reaction takes place in combustion zones believed to be localized in gas bubbles formed above the injection nozzles, the oxidation of the ferrous and nonferrous constitutents occurring at the interface between the gas and the melt with formation of a very thin and highly reactive oxide skin around each bubble. Some high-melting oxides of chromium or manganese may remain after the oxygen blow but can be reduced by blowing in powdered lime, after and possibly also with the oxygen, and by the deposition of solid or liquid reducing agents on the bath surface. A minor fraction of the ferro-alloy may be added in solid form to hold down the bath temperature.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3909245 (1975-09-01), Brotzmann
patent: 3955965 (1976-05-01), Putzier

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