Carbothermal reduction of ilmenite concentrates and synthetic rutile in different gas atmospheres

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-117

  Dewan, M A R ^a,b   Zhang, G Q ^a   Ostrovski, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Argon; Carbothermal reduction; Helium; Hydrogen; Ilmenite; Titanium oxycarbide

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION RATES; GAS ATMOSPHERE; ILMENITE CONCENTRATE; INERT ATMOSPHERES; ISOTHERMAL EXPERIMENTS; PSEUDORUTILE; REDUCTION RATE; SYNTHETIC RUTILE; TITANIA; TITANIUM OXYCARBIDE; TUBE REACTORS;

ARGON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GASES; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; ILMENITE; IRON OXIDES; OXIDE MINERALS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION;

EID: 80051791805     PISSN: 03719553     EISSN: 17432855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743285511Y.0000000001     Document Type: Article

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