What is ferrosilicon?

Ferrosilicon is a ferroalloy composed of iron and silicon. Ferrosilicon is a ferrosilicon alloy made of coke, steel shavings, quartz (or silica) and smelted in an electric furnace;

Uses of ferrosilicon:

1. Ferrosilicon is an essential deoxidizer in the steelmaking industry. In steelmaking, ferrosilicon is used for precipitation deoxidation and diffusion deoxidation. Brick iron is also used as an alloying agent in steelmaking.

2. Used as inoculant and nodulizer in cast iron industry. In the production of ductile iron, 75 ferrosilicon is an important inoculant (to help precipitate graphite) and nodularizer.

3. Used as reducing agent in ferroalloy production. Not only the chemical affinity between silicon and oxygen is great, but also the carbon content of high silicon ferrosilicon is very low. Therefore, high-silicon ferrosilicon (or silicon alloy) is a reducing agent commonly used in the production of low-carbon ferroalloys in the ferroalloy industry.

What are ferrosilicon grains?

Ferrosilicon particles are formed by crushing ferrosilicon into small pieces of a certain proportion and filtering through a sieve with a certain number of meshes. The small particles screened out are currently used as inoculants for foundries in the market.

Supply granularity of ferrosilicon particles: 0.2-1mm, 1-3mm, 3-8mm, or customized according to customer requirements;

Advantages of ferrosilicon particles:

Ferrosilicon pellets can not only be used in the steelmaking industry but also a metallurgical material commonly used in the cast iron industry. This is mainly because ferrosilicon pellets can be used by cast iron manufacturers to replace inoculants and nodularizers. In the cast iron industry, the price of ferrosilicon pellets is far Lower than steel, and more easily melted, are castable ferroalloy products.