Manufacture of zirconium and zirconium alloys

Are you interested in the production of zirconium? Supplier Avlob offers to buy zirconium at a bargain price. The supplier guarantees the timely delivery of products to any specified address. Regular customers can take advantage of discount discounts. The price is the best in this segment.

Ore raw materials

The richest source of zirconium, of course, is the mineral zircon. Most zircons used in industry today are found in sand and gravel sediments, from which pure zircon is extracted and purified… The world’s largest zirconium mines and deposits are in Australia and South Africa. To purify the ore, chlorination is used and then sintering. The second type of raw material is badellent. It is mined in the USA, but rich deposits also exist in Brazil, China, India, Russia, Italy, Norway, Thailand, Madagascar and Canada. Like zircon, baddeleyite is extracted from sand and gravel deposits.

The need for zirconium

The development of nuclear energy required a sharp increase in the production of zirconium. The melting of a zirconium sponge, the raw material for the production of zirconium ingots, in the USA in 1970 amounted to 1170 tons per year, and in the five years (by 1976) doubled, and by 1990 it increased by another 2−3 times.

Smelting

In zirconium concentrate, in the first stage of melting, lime is introduced into the melt 5−15 minutes before its completion, in the amount of 20−30% of the zircon concentrate, then the melt is drained, and metal additives are introduced into the remaining metal. Experimental melting is carried out in a laboratory arc furnace with a capacity of 60 kW.

Delivery, price

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