They walked into the Guangtu titanium smelter together, and in the smelter, the purification of high titanium slag was underway.

"This is Master Guo Min Guo, our chief technical engineer. This open-top electric furnace was improved under his design. From the previous 1800KVA, it has been increased to the current 4300KVA. ”

The experience device of high titanium slag is mainly a high-temperature electric furnace, and the design of the electric furnace is very complex. The higher the power of the electric furnace, the higher the purity of the extracted high titanium slag.

Guo Min is in his fifties, and like Sheng Wenyan, he looks very old. Lu Zixin stood in the middle of them, like a young junior.

"Master Guo, this is Mr. Lu of Hongxin Group, who specially came to inspect our smelter. If suitable, Hongxin Group will provide us with technical support to improve our titanium smelting process technology. Sheng Wenyan introduced, and Guo Min hurriedly said hello.

He was still a little surprised, Guo Min originally thought that Lu Zixin was a small leader or government official, but who knew that he was actually the boss of Hongxin Group, and his background was not small.

"Master Guo, what are the main difficulties in the refining of our high titanium slag?" Lu Zixin asked, after all, the information inquired by Hong Xiaoxiao was officially announced, and it was not as accurate as the actual inquiry.

Guo Min summed up this for a long time I don't know how many times, and immediately replied: "There are several difficulties. The first is the quality of the ore!"

"Although our country is rich in titanium resources, most of them are ilmenite ores, with low quality and high impurity content. Such raw materials can only be refined by vulcanization, and the vulcanization method is seriously polluting to the environment, and many places have stopped using it. At present, chlorination is usually used for refining, and because of the problem of refining process, we cannot use ilmenite ore as raw materials, but titanium concentrate. ”

"The price of titanium concentrate is high, the quantity is small, and it is generally processed from ilmenite, which is the two costs. ”

"The biggest difficulty is refining the electric furnace. Our open-top electric furnace can only extract high titanium slag with a purity of more than 80% at most. The adjacent Pancheng Iron and Steel Group has the highest semi-enclosed electric furnace in China, and their high titanium slag purity can reach 90%!"

"What is the international top?" Lu Zixin asked.

"If you want to say the top in the world, it should be Canada's Quebec Iron and Titanium Company, which accounts for about 30% of the global titanium slag market. Their titanium slag smelting technology is the highest, and the fully enclosed high-power electric furnace can purify the high titanium slag with a purity of more than 92%, and has been further processed to remove the calcium and magnesium impurities, which is almost the best industrial titanium raw material on the market. ”

"In this way, can all aspects of the data of the electric furnace be easily scanned and detected now?" Lu Zixin asked.

"This ......" Guo Min looked at Sheng Wenyan, although their electric furnace is not the most advanced, but it is also a technical secret, and many ore refining companies have not reached their level!

Sheng Wenyan did not hesitate at all, and said: "Of course, Master Guo, you fully cooperate, there is nothing to hide secretly." ”

"That's good. With Sheng Wenyan speaking, Guo Min was relieved.

Lu Zixin has asked people to bring equipment to scan the electric furnace in all aspects, and its data will be stored in a quantum information database for analysis and research.

"Alright, that's all for today. Lu Zixin said to the two, "I think it won't be long before we can launch a more powerful electric furnace." The purification process of high-titanium slag will be perfected to the world's top level, and during this time, the processing plant can reduce production and stock up on more raw materials. ”

Guo Min said yes, but he didn't think so in his heart. He also thought that Hongxin Group was going to do some research and improvement, who knows, so he brought some equipment to scan the electric furnace and left!

What can be improved in this way? It is necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of the process or something, so from this point of view, the other party is probably going through the motions, and there is no need to report anything.

Sheng Wenyan had similar thoughts to him, but he didn't say it, and he was already thinking about other ways to deal with the consequences of the change in raw material prices in the international market.

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Canada, Quebec. It is the largest provincial administrative unit in Canada, a French-speaking region, and home to the world's largest titanium industrial raw material production group, the Quebec Iron and Titanium Company.

At the headquarters of the Quebec Iron and Titanium Company, a group of guests from Australia were welcomed at this time. Several senior executives of Rio Tinto are secretly negotiating important trade secrets.

"Mr. Fillian, our group has overhauled the price of iron and titanium ore. As long as you maintain a united front with us, I think the price of iron and titanium ore in the world should not fluctuate during this period. Joyce, a representative of Rio Tinto Mining, said.

The last defeat in Nigeria made him controversial in the company, but fortunately he was hard enough in the background, a big British conglomerate behind the group, so he was able to be entrusted with the important task again.

"We have also comprehensively reduced the price of ilmenite purchased from Huaxia, and in addition, we have reduced the export of a large number of high-titanium slag. Hopefully, this cooperation will be a win-win situation for both of us. Fillian, president of the Quebec Iron and Titanium Company, replied.

The reason why the two international mining giants reached a price control cooperation is because Rio Tinto Mining Company learned that Huaxia Guangtu Mining Group had obtained a large amount of iron and titanium ore in a short period of time and was in a hurry to make a move.

If they lower the price, they can buy it at a low price, and then use their titanium refining technology to process it into high-priced high-priced titanium slag or titanium sponge and titanium dioxide into industrial products and then sell it. One is low and one is high, in the price war, they have gained a lot of profits.

"We also have a concern, what if Guangtu Mining Group processes their ilmenite in-house?" asked Joyce a senior executive at Quebec's iron and titanium company.

Joyce smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry, they will certainly process some, but with their processing technology, they can only produce titanium raw materials processed by vulcanization." This process has long been phased out. ”

"And according to the market demand, they have to turn these ores into high-purity high-titanium slag, and they have no process but to sell the ore to us!"

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In the Wanjie Technology chat group, Lu Zixin was asking the group friends about the technical problems of high titanium slag refining.

Mr. L: "Does anyone know about titanium ore smelting?"

Peter Parker: "I don't understand!"

Red Queen: "(Frustrated expression: It's useless for you to tell me this, because I'm just a computer.)" ）”

Mr. L: "@红后, (Panda Man questioning expression: Really? I don't believe it!)"

Red Queen: "(Spread hands: If you want to think like this, I can't help it.) ）”

When Lu Zixin saw her talking like this, he knew that the red queen must know. He immediately said: "Hong Xiaoxiao sang me a song just now, it's good." ”

The red queen immediately became interested and asked, "(Expectant expression: where, where?) Mr. @L, show it to me!"