Study of certain parameters in laboratory-scale smelting of Sivrihisar laterite ores of Turkey

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2012

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Minerals, Metals and Materials Society

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Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
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Conventional ferronickel smelting has five main steps: Drying, calcination, prereduction, smelting and refining. In the scope of the current work, smelting experiments were conducted using Sivrihisar laterite ores (1.26% Ni) of Turkey. The ore samples previously subjected to drying, calcination and prereduction stages were smelted in alumina crucibles in a laboratory-scale horizontal tube furnace under argon atmosphere. Smelting experiments were performed at 1500, 1550 and 1600°C. The amount of excess coal used in prereduction step was another variable. Sivrihisar laterite ore is a limonitic one with low MgO composition. Therefore, MgO was added to the smelting charge as a flux. The effects of experimental variables on metal Ni content and slag composition were investigated.

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Div. Miner., Met. Mater. Soc. (TMS); Pyrometallurgy Comm. Energy Comm. Extr. Process.

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Ferronickel, Laterite, Smelting

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TMS Annual Meeting -- 3rd International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing - TMS 2012 Annual Meeting and Exhibition -- 11 March 2012 through 15 March 2012 -- Orlando, FL -- 89574

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491

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498

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https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118364987.ch59
 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/3682

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