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Study of smelting Egyptian black sand ilmenite by using El Magara coal

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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Mining and Metallurgical Engineering.

Abstract

Black sand is beach deposits that come from the headwaters of the Nile, which are rich in heavy minerals. The major economic mineral is ilmenite. It represents around 60 – 70 % of economic minerals quantity. To increase the adding value of the national resources carried out a serial of experiments to study smelting process for producing high Titania slag and cast iron. The main factors which affected on the process are the amounts of carbon, time of experiments and amount of flux agent. The effect of many factors such as time which were (20, 25 & 30 min), carbon content which were (15 %, 20 % & 30 %) and using a flux agent which were (1 %, 2 % & 3 %) were studied, as well as the properties of some mechanical samples such as hardness and drop number. As a result of these studies, we obtained some important results on the importance of the effect of time on iron yield, and that the content of the preferred flux agent gives good results on iron yield. The obtained iron yield is 80.5 % and the assay of titanium dioxide in Titania slag is 77.6 %.

DOI

10.21608/jesaun.2024.242120.1270

Keywords

Ilmenite smelting, Titania slag, Cast Iron, carbothermic reaction, Black Sand

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Dawood

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Affiliation

Nuclear Materials Authority, Egypt

Email

adad18919@gmail.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0003-4436-8395

First Name

Refaie

Last Name

Omar

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Affiliation

Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

dr_refaie@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0001-5145-9944

Volume

52

Article Issue

3

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46630

Issue Date

2024-05-01

Receive Date

2023-10-12

Publish Date

2024-05-01

Page Start

1

Page End

13

Print ISSN

1687-0530

Online ISSN

2356-8550

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Research Paper

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1,438

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JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/

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Study of smelting Egyptian black sand ilmenite by using El Magara coal

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26 Dec 2024