%0 Journal Article %T OPTIMIZATION OF REDUCTION PROCESS OF EGYPTIAN ILMENITE VIA METALLOTHERMIC REACTIONS %J Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science %I Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science (Boys) %Z 1110-2535 %A Daher, A. M. %A Badawy, N. A. %A Mohrez, Waleed A. %A abbel-Hamid, Abdallh m. %A yossef, A. %A Abd El Pasir, A. %D 2018 %\ 06/01/2018 %V 29 %N Issue 1-A %P 35-41 %! OPTIMIZATION OF REDUCTION PROCESS OF EGYPTIAN ILMENITE VIA METALLOTHERMIC REACTIONS %K Aluminothermic %K Egyptian ilmenite %K flux %K ferrotitanium %K master alloy %R 10.21608/absb.2018.33748 %X It is important to develop technologies for the production of master alloys for industrial applications. Detailed research on reduction of titanium from Egyptian ilmenite by an aluminothermic process in a graphite Crucible was charged by the mixture of ilmenite, flux, aluminum was investigated. This paper study the effect of aluminum feed (10% - 35%), flux material (type, and amount), and temperature preheat from 50 oC to 400 oC and time of preheating from 0.5 hr. to 3 hrs. Then, the metallic samples formed by the reduction were analyzed using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy. The mixed fluxes were strongly and successfully reduced ilmenite to a high-purity master alloy with small amounts of detected impurities. %U https://absb.journals.ekb.eg/article_33748_d2ffff1905e6562c0221c36c90ff4f0a.pdf