Carbothermic reduction kinetics of ilmenite concentrates catalyzed by sodium chloride and microwaveabsorbing characteristics of reductive products

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 108-116

  Li, Wei ^a   Peng, Jinhui ^a   Guo, Shenghui ^a   Zhang, Libo ^a   Chen, Guo ^a   Xia, Hongying ^a   Liu, Bingguo ^a  

^a KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbothermic reduction; Ilmenite concentrates; Kinetics; Microwave absorbing Characteristics; Sodium chloride

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; ENZYME KINETICS; ILMENITE; IRON COMPOUNDS; KINETICS; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVES; RATE CONSTANTS; SILICATES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ILMENITE CONCENTRATE; MICROWAVE ABSORBING; MICROWAVE CAVITY PERTURBATIONS; REDUCTION DEGREE; REDUCTION PROCESS; REDUCTION RATE; SODIUM SILICATE; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

IRON;

EID: 84880351968     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03402413     Document Type: Article

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