FerMetallurgical Product Description

Ferrovanadium is a rare metal with a wide range of applications. It is understood that vanadium is mainly used in alloys to change the properties of steel. At the same time, ferrovanadium has been commercially utilized in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, and other countries. Its commercial uses are mainly used for wind power energy storage, photovoltaic energy storage, and power grid peak regulation. Ferrovanadium is widely used in traditional fields such as bleaching, painting, and papermaking, and processed titanium is used in aerospace, military, and other fields. Experts predict that with the rapid development of new energy and the improvement of performance requirements for steel, the future application prospects of these two materials will be very broad.

Product Parameters

Size: 03 – 20mm, 10 – 50mm
Color: Silver Gray/Gray
Melting point: 1800°C
Packing: Steel Drums (25Kgs, 50Kgs, 100Kgs & 250Kgs) or 1 Ton bags.

Product Advantages

Ferrovanadium is known as “modern industrial monosodium glutamate” and is widely used in the steel, chemical industry, aerospace, and other fields. 85% of it is used in the steel industry. Adding ferrovanadium to steel can improve the steel’s wear resistance, strength, hardness, ductility, and other properties. Adding 0.1% ferrovanadium can increase the strength of steel by 10%-20%, reduce the structural weight by 15%-25%, and reduce the cost by 8%-10%.

Although ferrovanadium has many advantages, it easily causes environmental pollution during the production process. A large amount of toxic and harmful waste gas and waste water are emitted during the ferrovanadium refining process. Waste gas contains hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, and sulfuric acid, which have devastating effects on vegetation and crops; wastewater contains hexavalent chromium, cadmium, arsenic, and other pollutants, which are very harmful to humans and animals and can easily form acid rain. Currently, production is shifting to underdeveloped countries and regions.

Manufacture And Use

There are two methods for extracting iron vanadium from magnetite: the fire method is to extract iron vanadium indirectly from concentrate or vanadium slag, and the wet method is to extract iron vanadium directly from concentrate. At present, my country mainly adopts the method of indirect extraction of ferrovanadium. Pyrogenic vanadium extraction process: The ore dressing product vanadium concentrate is smelted directly in a blast furnace or electric furnace, so that most of the vanadium in the ore enters the molten iron, and then the water containing vanadium is sent to the converter for oxygen-blowing to enrich the vanadium in the slag. Become vanadium slag. Vanadium peroxide is obtained from vanadium slag through roasting, leaching, and filtration. A great advantage of this method is the high recovery rate of vanadium.

Applications

Ferrovanadium is also known as a “strategic metal”. Ferrovanadium and its alloys have excellent properties such as corrosion resistance, high strength, high and low-temperature strength, non-magnetic properties, good human adaptability, shape memory, and superconductivity. Due to its light weight and high strength, it has been widely used in aerospace and other fields. In recent years, its application has gradually expanded to civilian industrial fields such as shipbuilding, petrochemical equipment, offshore platforms, power equipment, medical care, and consumer goods.