Alphametals

Ferro Aluminum

A ferro aluminium is an alloy comprises iron and aluminium is Ferro Aluminium (FeAl). Ferro alloy has 40 to 60 percent of aluminium content. Low melting point alloys can be manufactured using this ferro alloy. It can also use be used in aluminothermic welding. The iron content in this ferro alloy is beneficial for maintaining strength at high temperatures, reducing casting defects and improving hardness, tensile and yield.

Ferroalloys are the integral constituents of any steelmaking process, as these are indispensible materials for refining, deoxidation, desulphurization, and alloying to achieve the desired chemical and physical properties in steel. As such they influence the steel quality and steelmaking economics to a great extent. They are vital inputs for producing all types of steel and are used as raw material in the production of alloys steel and stainless steel. Not a single grade of steel is produced without ferro-alloys. In fact, more than 85 % of ferroalloys produced globally are consumed in the steel industry.

USES OF FERRO ALUMINIUM

The uses of Ferro Aluminium include:

• Its ability to be a deoxidizing agent in the manufacturing of steels.
• The possibility to manufacture low melting point alloys
• Its ability to carry out aluminothermic welding.

APPLICATIONS

Deoxidization, hardfacing applications, reducing agent, thermite reactions, AlNiCo magnets, alloying additions to welding wires and fluxes