1. Pangang Group Research Institute Co., Ltd., State Key Laboratory of Vanadium and Titanium Resources Comprehensive Utilization, Panzhihua 617000, Sichuan, China;
2. School of Materials and Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, Liaoning, China
By X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM),the process mineralogy of modified and unmodified extracted vanadium tailings,especially the influences of mineralogical characteristics of iron (Fe) and vanadium (V) on the reduction,were studied in this paper. The effects of carbon content,reaction temperature and time on the reduction were systematically investigated.Resultsshow that the metallization rate of Fe reaches to 91.86% under the optimum conditions of 25% carbon content,reaction temperature of 1 150 ℃ and reaction time of 2 h,which lays the foundation for the following smelting separation by arc furnace.