Electrorefining of High Carbon Ferromanganese in Molten Salts to Produce Pure Ferromanganese
High carbon ferromanganese is used as a starting material to prepare pure ferromanganese by electrorefining in molten salts. High carbon ferromanganese was applied as the anode, molybdenum was the cathode and Ag/AgCl was the reference electrode. The anodic dissolution was investigated by linear pola...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-09-01
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| Series: | Archives of Metallurgy and Materials |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/amm.2017.62.issue-3/amm-2017-0233/amm-2017-0233.xml?format=INT |
| Summary: | High carbon ferromanganese is used as a starting material to prepare pure ferromanganese by electrorefining in molten salts. High carbon ferromanganese was applied as the anode, molybdenum was the cathode and Ag/AgCl was the reference electrode. The anodic dissolution was investigated by linear polarization in molten NaCl-KCl system. Then potentiostatic electrolysis was carried out to produce pure ferromanganese from high carbon ferromanganese. The cathodic product was determined to be a mixture of manganese and iron by x-ray diffraction (XRD). The content of carbon in the product was analyzed by carbon and sulfur analyzer. The post-electrolysis anode was characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM). The mechanism of the anode dissolution and the distribution of the main impurity of carbon and silicon after electrolysis were discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-1909 |