EXTRACTION OF IRON

ELEMENT
NA0ME:IRON
ORE:- HAEMATITE (FE2O3)
VARIOUS STEPS INVOLVED IN THE EXTVACTION OF
IRON METAL ARE AS FOLLOWS:-

 1. CONCENTRATION OF ORE: IT IS DANE BY

THE METHED OF HYDREWLIC WASHING.
 2. CALCINATION: HE WASHED ORE IS then
strongly heated in the absence of air to expel water
shacking to it.
 3. Reduction: the washed and dried are (hematite) is
mixed with coke and limes tone and put into a blast
fence from the top a blast of het air is blew into the
furnace from near the bottom. this air supplies
oxygen for the burning of coke.
(1) NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE
FURNACE,COKE BURNS IN AIR
TO FORM CARBON DIOXIDE,
REALEASING HEAT

C + O2 CO2 + HEAT
(CARBON (OXYGEN (CARBON
) )

DIOXIDE)
Following reactions take place in the blast furnace
leading to the foundation of iron metal.
(2) CARBON DIOXIDE THEN REACTS WITH

COKE TO FORM CARBON MONOXIDE

AND ACTS AS REDUCING AGENT.

CO2 + C 2CO

CARBON
MONOXIDE
 (3) IN TH E U PPER PART OF THE
FURNACE, CARBON MONOXIDE
REDUCES IRON (3)OXIDE TO IRON METAL.

FE2O3 + 3CO 2FE + 3CO2

HAEMATITE CARBON MONOXIDE IRON METAL
(4) IN THE BLAST FURANCE LIME STONE
DECOMPESES TO FORM CALCIUM
OXIDE AND CARBON DIOXIDE

CACO3 HEAT CAO + CO2

5) THE SAND IS REMOVED FROM BLAST

FURANCE IN THE FORM OF LIQUID

SLAG BY ADDING LIMES TONE AS FLIX.

CAO + SCO2 CASIO3

THE MOLTEN IRON AND MOLTEN SLAG ARE
TAKEN OUT THROUGH SEPARATE OUTLETS
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BLAST FURNACE.
THE IRON METAL THUS OBTAINED IS
CALLED PIG IRON. IT IS NOT VERY USEFUL
BECAUSE IT CONTAINS SOME IMPURITIUES.
AS PIG IRON IS NOT VERY USEFUL BECAUSE
OF THE IMPURITIUES PRESENT IN IT, IT IS
FARTHEN REFINED THROUGH THE PROCESS
OF OXIDATIVE REFINING. THE IRON THUS
OBTAINED IS CALLED WROUGHT IRON
WHICH IS THE PUREST FORM OF IRON.
 Extraction of Iron

 The diagram
shows the
process to
extract Iron
 Uses of Iron
 1. Iron is used as alloys with carbon and other
elements. The two common alloys of carbon
are Cast Iron and Steel.
 2. Cast Iron is used to make bed plates of

various machines and heavy-duty parts.

 3. Iron is also used to make some house hold
utensils and factory equipments.
 4. Iron is used as catalyst in preparation of
man compounds.
 5. Steel is used as building material for
many construction purposes.
THANKS

SUBMITTED BY:
RAJESH KUMAR
VIKAS
AMARDEEP.
CLASS:-9TH C