Abstract

The selective removal of valuable elements from ferroalloys has been investigated. It has been found that liquid bismuth is a suitable solvent for leaching manganese from its ferroalloy. High recoveries and rapid reaction rates were obtained for low-carbon ferromanganese, but results for the high-carbon ferromanganese and silicomanganese were less favorable due to the lower activity of manganese in these alloys and the lack of wetting by liquid bismuth. Antimony was found to be a suitable solvent for titanium from ferrotitanium but iron was also taken into solution. Manganese was successfully transferred from solution in liquid bismuth to liquid aluminum by fused salt electrorefining, using a NaCl-KCl-MnCl electrolyte, at high current efficiencies with negligible carryover of bismuth.

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