EVRAZ Stratcor's New Facility Begins Processing Roasted Slag
02/11/2014 - Vanadium-bearing roasted steelmaking slag is starting to be processed at EVRAZ Stratcor’s Hot Springs, Ark., operations following completion of a US$7 million expansion at the plant.
The expansion improved the plant’s leaching and reagent systems so it can process roasted slag in addition to various other vanadium feedstocks. The Hot Springs plant produces high-purity vanadium pentoxide and specialty-vanadium products used by the chemical, titanium and steel industries.
The new facilities will the Hot Springs plant to produce 9 million lbs. of vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) per year with further production increases possible at a later date. At full production, steelmaking slag will be the primary feedstock used at the plant.
Roasted vanadium-bearing steelmaking slag is an abundant source of vanadium that comes from EVRAZ’s steel o perations that process vanadium-bearing iron ore in Russia. The slag produced by EVRAZ’s Nizhny Tagil (NTMK) steel works in Russia contains about 50 million lbs. of V2O5 per year — or about one quarter of the V2O5 available in slag globally. After roasting, this slag will be shipped to the EVRAZ Stratcor plant in Hot Springs for use in the production of specialty-vanadium products.
“Regular shipments of roasted steelmaking slag from EVRAZ’s steelmakingh operations give us an important new feedstock that allows us to expand our production of high-quality specialty-vanadium products at Hot Springs,” said Brandon Davis, president of EVRAZ Stratcor. “It will also allow EVRAZ’s worldwide vanadium operations to become more vertically integrated from raw materials to finished product, allowing EVRAZ to better serve the vanadium needs of our specialty customers.”
The new facilities will the Hot Springs plant to produce 9 million lbs. of vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) per year with further production increases possible at a later date. At full production, steelmaking slag will be the primary feedstock used at the plant.
Roasted vanadium-bearing steelmaking slag is an abundant source of vanadium that comes from EVRAZ’s steel o perations that process vanadium-bearing iron ore in Russia. The slag produced by EVRAZ’s Nizhny Tagil (NTMK) steel works in Russia contains about 50 million lbs. of V2O5 per year — or about one quarter of the V2O5 available in slag globally. After roasting, this slag will be shipped to the EVRAZ Stratcor plant in Hot Springs for use in the production of specialty-vanadium products.
“Regular shipments of roasted steelmaking slag from EVRAZ’s steelmakingh operations give us an important new feedstock that allows us to expand our production of high-quality specialty-vanadium products at Hot Springs,” said Brandon Davis, president of EVRAZ Stratcor. “It will also allow EVRAZ’s worldwide vanadium operations to become more vertically integrated from raw materials to finished product, allowing EVRAZ to better serve the vanadium needs of our specialty customers.”
