ISIJ International
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Ironmaking
Enrichment of Phosphorus from Iron Ore to Dicalcium-silicate Phase by Partial Reduction
Nobuhiro Maruoka Hironari Kubo
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2021 Volume 61 Issue 8 Pages 2220-2226

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Due to the low quality of available iron ore, it is necessary to develop a new technology to produce high quality steel from ore containing a high concentration of phosphorous. In this study, we propose a new process for producing low-P steel by concentrating P in the dicalcium silicate phase through a partial reduction process. High-P iron ore was mixed with varying quantities of CaO and graphite and heated at 1573 K in an Ar atmosphere, and the obtained product was analyzed by electron probe microanalysis. It was found that in the reduced product mixture that was obtained under specific conditions of high basicity and a lower amount of added carbon, more than 95% of P was concentrated in the dicalcium silicate phase, and the P content in metallic iron was sufficiently low.

P distribution as a function of target FetO content. Fullsize Image
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