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New Production Route for Vanadium Nitride Master Alloy: Experimental and Thermodynamic Analysis

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A vanadium nitride alloy can be used as an alloying source of nitrogen and vanadium elements in high-strength steel. In this study, comprehensive and systematic experiments were conducted to optimize the process conditions for producing a vanadium nitride alloy from the starting materials (V2O5 and Fe2O3). The reduction and nitridation behaviors of the starting materials were investigated using thermogravimetry-differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC) and horizontal tube furnace experiments under various gas conditions. The phase and chemical compositions of the final alloy products were analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope-electron dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), and the inert gas fusion (IGF) technique. In addition, thermodynamic calculations were performed to help in the understanding of the Nitrovan production process.

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  1. Tata Research and Development Laboratory, Jamshedpur, Jharkand, 831001, India

    Arijit Biswas

  2. Materials Science and Engineering Department, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382355, India

    Chandan Sahoo & Manas Paliwal

  3. Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu, 212013, China

    Wei-Tong Du

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea

    In-Ho Jung

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Biswas, A., Sahoo, C., Du, WT. et al. New Production Route for Vanadium Nitride Master Alloy: Experimental and Thermodynamic Analysis. Metall Mater Trans B 52, 956–967 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-021-02068-y

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