There are various technologies for the extraction of magnesium depending on the source, and these are the electrolytic process, the Pidgeon process, and the …
ادامه مطلبThermochemical equilibrium calculations indicate the possibility of considerable fuel savings and CO2 emission avoidance in the three steps of the Pidgeon process: (a) calcination of dolomite; (b) production of ferrosilicon from quartz sand, coal, and iron oxide; (c) silicothermic reduction of calcined dolomite by ferrosilicon to …
ادامه مطلبThe dolomite resources are mostly found in Henan, Shandong, and Ningxia provinces. ... In the next 30 years, Fushun Aluminum Plant was the main source of primary magnesium in China. The enterprises producing magnesium products were Luoyang Copper Processing Plant and Shenyang Nonferrous Metals Plant. ... the Pidgeon …
ادامه مطلبVacuum silicothermic production process, called the Pidgeon Process after its inventor L. M. Pidgeon, is the dominant primary production method among all …
ادامه مطلبThermochemical equilibrium calculations indicate the possibility of considerable fuel savings and CO2 emission avoidance in the three steps of the Pidgeon process: (a) calcination of dolomite; (b) production of ferrosilicon from quartz sand, coal, and iron oxide; (c) silicothermic reduction of calcined dolomite by ferrosilicon to magnesium. All three …
ادامه مطلبreductant, reduction time on the magnesium reducing procedure from Thanhhoa dolomite by using Pidgeon process. 2. Material and Methods 2. 1. Materials Thanhhoa is a province in Vietnam with the rich source of dolomite in Thanhhoa district approximately a million tones. The collected dolomite patterns in this experiment are investigated
ادامه مطلبDolomite, which is abundant in Vietnam, is the source for magnesum production. However, there is no research on the production of magnesium from the dolomite source in Vietnam so far. This paper studies the production process of Magnesium from the dolomite source in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam using the Pidgeon method with ferrosilicon as the reducing ...
ادامه مطلبPidgeon, working with one technical graduate, achieved commercial development of a process to produce magnesium by reducing calcined dolomite with fcrrosilicon, i.e. the silicothermic process.
ادامه مطلبThe ideal recovering efficiency of magnesium from Thanhhoa dolomite applying the Pidgeon is 84.6 %. In comparison with results of the magnesium recovering by other dolomites from Iran, Turkey with …
ادامه مطلبDolomite is used as an ornamental stone, a concrete aggregate, and a source of magnesium oxide, as well as in the Pidgeon process for the production of magnesium. It is an important petroleum reservoir rock, and serves as the host rock for large strata-bound Mississippi Valley-Type (MVT) ore deposits of base metals such as lead, zinc, and copper.
ادامه مطلبThe Pidgeon process is currently the most widely used process for the production of magnesium. ... and the option of using solar energy as a source of energy for this energy-intensive process ...
ادامه مطلبGenerally, commercial-purity pure magnesium crowns are manufactured by the Pidgeon process through the thermal reduction of dolomite ore [18]. The purity of these pure magnesium crowns is between ...
ادامه مطلبThe Pidgeon process is a thermal reduction process that extracts magnesium from calcined dolomite ... can be converted into electromagnetic radiation, such as microwaves, which in turn can be used as a thermal energy source. The amount of energy absorbed from the electromagnetic field and the amount converted into heat are …
ادامه مطلبVacuum silicothermic production process, called the Pidgeon Process after its inventor L. M. Pidgeon, is the dominant primary production method among all processes. It is based on the reduction of Mg in calcined dolomite ore by using ferrosilicon as a reductant in air-sealed retorts under vacuum atmosphere at temperatures between 1200°C and ...
ادامه مطلبUnder the policy of low carbon energy saving, higher requirements are put forward for magnesium smelting. As the mainstream magnesium smelting process, the Pidgeon process has the disadvantages of a long production cycle, high energy consumption and high carbon emission, which makes it difficult to meet the …
ادامه مطلبCurrently, metallic Mg is mainly produced through the silicothermic reduction process (Pidgeon process) in industry. The electrolytic process is mainly used for the realization of the entire "Mg ...
ادامه مطلبContext in source publication. Context 1 ... yields raw material at a quality similar to that used in the classical dolomite-based Pidgeon silicothermic reduction technique. The filtrate of the ...
ادامه مطلب81 energy source and resources, this also emits a large amount of waste gas, ... 141 The Pidgeon process uses dolomite as the main raw material, ferrosilicon as a 142 reducing agent, and fluorite ...
ادامه مطلبThermochemical equilibrium calculations indicate the possibility of considerable fuel savings and CO2 emission avoidance in the three steps of the Pidgeon process: (a) calcination …
ادامه مطلبthe Pidgeon process. Figure 1(a) shows the flow of the Pidgeon process, which comprises three stages: calcina-tion of dolomite (CaCO 3ÆMgCO 3), preparation of bri-quettes and silicothermic reduction of dolime (CaOÆMgO). In the calcination stage, dolomite was thermally decomposed in a rotary kiln to dolime and carbon dioxide as …
ادامه مطلبIn steel industry, ferrosilicon is used as a source of silicon to deoxidize steel and other ferrous alloys. This prevents the loss of carbon from the molten steel, ferromanganese, spiegeleisen and silicides of calcium.
ادامه مطلبFigure 1(a) shows the flow of the Pidgeon process, which comprises three stages: calcination of dolomite (CaCO 3 ·MgCO 3), preparation of briquettes and silicothermic reduction of dolime (CaO·MgO). In the calcination stage, dolomite was thermally decomposed in a rotary kiln to dolime and carbon dioxide as reaction . Carbon …
ادامه مطلبsuggested an antenna structure consisting of dolomite as the Mg source and a ferrosilicon antenna as the reducing agent. This microwave Pidgeon process with an antenna configuration made it possible to produce Mg with an energy consumption of 58.6 GJ/t, corresponding to a 68.6 pct reduction when compared to the conventional method.
ادامه مطلبCurrently, 85% of the world's Mg metal is produced in China using the Pidgeon process, which was originally invented in Canada in the 1940s as a more …
ادامه مطلبThe materials used in experiment were in accordance with the Pidgeon process, including calcined dolomite, ferrosilicon and fluorite, and the chemical compositions were listed in Table 1, ... In Pidgeon process, heat transfer occurring from layer by layer for the only source of heat was the outer wall of the reduction pot. And …
ادامه مطلبDolomite can be used as a source of magnesium oxide. ... Dolomite is used in the Pidgeon process for the production of magnesium. Manufacturing factories can use it in the production of floating glass. The Dolomite contains minor quantities of radioactive materials; hence it can be used to insulate they from extraterrestrial rays. ...
ادامه مطلب[63,64] Dolomite is used as raw material in the present industrial Pidgeon process. Several literatures evaluated dolomite obtained from some specific regions, such as Zefreh in Iran, [65] Turkish ...
ادامه مطلبCalcined dolomite is the most remarkable raw material to use as magnesium source in the Pidgeon process and, it theoretically contains 58.2 mass% CaO and 41.8 mass% MgO, …
ادامه مطلبContext in source publication Context 1 M. Pidgeon was born in 1903 in Ontario, Canada (Fig. 1 work on "anti-knock compounds" under the supervision of Sir Alfred Egerton (1929)(1930)(1931).
ادامه مطلبIn the Pidgeon method, ferrosilicon is an extremely crucial substance in the process to re- duce magnesium from ore like dolomite, the ferrosilicon producing money accounts for …
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