Evaluation of the Use of Complex Mineral Concentrate as a Modifier Steel

Increasing customer demands for quality of the resulting metal, and in the first place, the impurities, metallurgists dictate need to develop new and improved technologies. Thus, a significant reduction in metal losses can be achieved by developing new complex alloy steels, special purpose, improving technology of their production and developing new technology of smelting to improve the physical, mechanical, foundry and operational characteristics by influencing the structure of the steel by modifying the liquid melt, change more favorable morphology of nonmetallic inclusions. For complex-alloyed steels expensive and scarce alloying elements Ti, Nb, Zr, etc., are used, which are inaccessible to conventional structural steels. In this regard, the paper also presents the results of applying of innovative modifiers containing alloying elements (Ti, Nb, Zr, etc.) based on mineral concentrates in the Tomsk region

Research of Influence Modification of Natural Concentrate on Quality Metal

Questions of increase of mechanical, technological and service properties of metal at minimum cost to produce it are relevant for the metallurgical enterprises. Modification of complex steel alloys containing reactive elements is one of the effective ways to improve the quality of steel. At the same time the direct costs for the use of modifiers are 0.2-0.3%, which little effect on the cost of production. The paper presents the results of the application of natural concentrates as a modifier steel. The effects on the metal quality changes due to the impact of the modification concentrates demonstrate the effectiveness of their application. As a result of modification decreased the content of nonmetallic inclusions and grain size. Reduction of impurity modified metal of was the cause more high plastic properties, especially, impact strength at ordinary and low temperatures of tests. Based on the experimental data evaluated hardening mechanisms that lead to a significant improvement of physic-mechanical properties of the metal workpiece after administration modifier

Research on Operational Characteristics of Imported Rails under Conditions of East Siberian Railway

In world's manufacturing of railroad rails there are several thermal bonding methods: differentiated waterflow quenching, air-blast or spray quenching, rail head's hardening in polymer solution and bulk oil hardening; rails' service durability is strongly dependent on thermo-hardening methods. Until recently, all of rails, produced at Nizhniy Tagil and Kuznetsk Metallurgical Works, were subjected to bulk oil hardening. Only in 2010-2011, in the Russian Federation, differentiated air quenching of rails was started at the JSC "EVRAZ ZSMK"; and rail heads' hardening in polymer solution - at the JSC "Mechel". At the same time, exploitation of imported rails with differentiated hardening has been performed on Russian railways since 1995. Service durability of these rails in Siberia and the Far North is of considerable interest. In this paper we investigated the quality of P65-type rails, made in Japan, removed after use from curved track section of the East-Siberian railway

Distribution of Liquid Flow Rates in the Process of Bubbling with Gas Through Gas-Permeable Inserts

The authors studied the distribution of the vertical components of the rate in the ascending gas-liquid flow when blowing through the bottom nozzle at two levels under three modes of neutral gas supply. It was estimated that under the intensities of gas (nitrogen) of 2 and 4 L/min-t the type of rates distribution in both cross-sections does not differ from the generally accepted one and practically does not depend upon the intensity of gas supply

Oxidation Processes in Blowing Steel With Inert Gas into the Ladle

This work reports the possible development of oxidative processes in a metal when treating the melt in the ladle under intensive stirring with an inert gas. The industrial data have been received, confirming the possibility of reducing the concentration of silicon and aluminum in the metal, as well as changing the slag chemical composition with the bath blowing with the inert gas through the top submerged lance

Optimizing Technological Parameters of the Reduction Processes in Treating Steels in a Ladle Furnace

This work reports the possible development of reduction processes when treating the molten metal and slag using a ladle furnace under conditions of intensive stirring with an inert gas. The industrial data have been received, confirming the possibility of decreasing the concentration of ferrous and manganese oxides in the slag and stabilizing the contents of manganese and silicon in the metal

A Technology of Wastewater Sludge Treatment

At many communities, industrial and agricultural enterprises, treatment and recycling of wastewater sludge is an urgent task as the sludge is poured and stored in sludge banks for many years and thus worsens the ecology and living conditions of the region. The article suggests a new technology of wastewater sludge treatment using water-soluble binder and heat treatment in microwave ovens

Extraction of Chromium from Carbon Ferrochromium Residual Wastes

This work reports the problem of processing residual wastes after producing carbon ferrochrome by recycling dust using a hydrometallurgical method with the purpose of extracting the basic component - chromium. The X-ray diffraction analysis results, chemical and granulometric compositions of dust from the carbon ferrochrome production are given. The method for the production of chemical-enrichment concentrate (CEC) by processing ferrous dust is described, with obtaining a middling product - sodium mono-chromate with its further reduction to chromium hydroxide, followed by autoclave leaching, and resulting in the production of chemically enriched chrome concentrate. The plant used for autoclave leaching and filtering is schematically depicted. The smelting process of metallic chromium using the ladle aluminothermic method is described