USE OF CUTTINGS IN SOVIET PIG-IRON PRODUCTION

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY,
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL G0%VJ0fVMM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Economic - Iron and steel production
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED Mar 1946
LANGUAGE Russian
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SO
U. S. C.. SI AND SE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY WARNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO.
NIGITCO DY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
Stal', No 3, 1946
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1944-46
DATE DIST. //VOI/1950
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USE OF CUTTINGS IN SOVIET PIG-IRON PRODUCTION
In 1944-45, nearly 80 percent of steel cuttings in the USSR were consumed
by blast-furnace shops. Data from "Glavvtorchermet" (Main Administration,of"'
Secondary Ferrous Metals) on the cuttings delivered to it indicate an even
higher percentage.
During the war, the majority of metalworking plants of the USSR organized
procurement of steel cuttings in accordance with requirements set up by govern-
mental agencies. In 1944, the entire mass of newly formed cuttings underwent
crushing. In that year, Soviet blast-furnace operators obtained crushed and
fine cuttings exclusively, whereas in previous years, they had received spiral-
shaped (v'yunoobraznaya) cuttings along with the cuttings, making charging
difficult. Beginning in 1944, therefore, all blast-furnace shops began to
order the maximum amount of cuttings.
The addition of cuttings to the charge during the war and postwar period
usually resulted in a pig iron with 'considerable admixtures of chromium and
nickel, and sometimes copper. Since in many cases -- as in smelting wrought
iron -- these admixtures are harmful, the consumption of cuttings is limited
in those blast-furnace shops which must produce a pig iron without a chromium
content. The sorting of cuttings of alloy steels (chrome-nickel, chrome-nickel-
molybdenum, high-chrome, etc.) enables them to be used for smelting alloy grades
of pig iron steel production and foundry pig iron as well as ferroalloys. This
practice is widely used in the USSR.
The addition of cuttings to the charge almost always helps to decrease the
phosphorus content in the pig iron, a most important factor, for the USSR, pri-
marily in the smelting of foundry pig iron from ores of the Central Region;
secondly, in smelting Bessemer pig iron; and thirdly, in smelting high-quality
pig iron for steel' production in the Urals and South. In the latter, of course,
only cuttings of high-quality steel smelted in basic furnaces can be used.
In 1945, regional distribution of the procurement of cuttings and their
use was as follows:
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Distribution of the Procurement and Utilization of Cuttings
Quantity of Cuttings (~i)
(Entire USSR = 100 %)
Region
Accumulation
USSR=100`j,)
Procured
and Used
In Given
Region
Exported
beyond
Given
Region
Imported
from
Other
Regions
Total
Used in
Given
Region
Central Region
30
10
20
-
10
North and Central
Urals
26
20
6
9
29
Southern Urals
17
11
6
4
15
Magnitogorsk
2
2
-
10
12
Kuznetsk
16
14
2
-
l4+
Ukraine
9
9
-
11
20
Total
100
66
34
34
100
As shown by the above table, 66 percent of procured cuttings are now con-
sumed in plants near the procurement area and 34+ percent are shipped to plants
further away. The Magnitogorsk and Ukraine plants have the maximum quantity
of cuttings shipped from other regions.
With this distribution, the E~Limated average distance of transport of cut-
tings for major blast-furnace plants is as follows (in kilometers):
Plants of Central Region
250
Plants of Tagil'skiy Region
310
Plants of Chelyabinsk
500
Plants of Ukraine
1.350
Plants of. Magnitogorsk
930
Average for the above regions
635
Those plants which have operated for a long time on cuttings and expect to
continue to do so in the future should be given additional equipment and should
improve the process of charging cuttings into blast furnaces. This applies in
particular to the plants in the Central Region.
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