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Ferrovanadium: Gin's Ferro-Silicon Reduction of Vanadium Trioxide (Stansfield, 1914)
Ferro-vanadium for steelmaking by Gustave Gin's easier route: powdered 60 per cent ferro-silicon is mixed with vanadium trioxide, bound with a little coal-tar pitch into briquettes, and smelted in an electric furnace on a magnesite hearth; the silicon takes the oxygen and the vanadium alloys with the iron.
A magnesite hearth keeps the alloy from picking up carbon from a carbon lining.
Source: A. Stansfield, The Electric Furnace, 2nd ed. (1914), p. 267. Picture: the book's text.
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Instructions
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Mix the charge
Mix the charge
Powder 60 per cent ferro-silicon and mix it intimately with vanadium trioxide. The ratio is not given.
Materials for this step:
Ferrosilicon1 60 per cent grade, powdered
Vanadium Trioxide1 pieceTools needed:
Mortar and Pestle2
2
Briquette
Briquette
Agglomerate the mixture with 4 to 6 per cent of coal-tar pitch and press it into briquettes.
Materials for this step:
Coal Tar Pitch1 4-6 per centTools needed:
Mortar and Pestle3
3
Smelt
Smelt
Smelt the briquettes in an electric furnace with a magnesite hearth.
Tools needed:
Electric Arc Furnace
Magnesite BlocksMaterials
3- 1 60 per cent grade, powderedPlaceholder
- 1 piecePlaceholder
- 1 4-6 per centPlaceholder
Tools Required
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