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  • Feng Li
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(2): 96-98.

    Enterprise archives are important components of scientific research achievements of enterprises as well as with such important functions as ensuring the traceability and confidentiality of scientific achievements and knowledge accumulation. With the continuous development and progress of enterprises, the management mode of enterprise archives also needs to be constantly innovated and transformed to meet the needs of technological innovation and development in the new era. In this article, it is aimed to discuss the direction and path of innovation transformation for management mode of enterprise archives in scientific research institutes, which could provide beneficial references for innovation and improvement of management mode of enterprise archives.

  • Mengchen Sun, Chenhong Ma, Min Wang, Jianhua Su, Wei Zhao, Tong Qiao
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(2): 72-76.

    The heating in smelting and rolling laboratory is with natural gas radiation as well as the CO generated by natural gas leakage and incomplete combustion can lead to such accidents as fires and explosions very easily. In the article, a wireless and low-cost detection system of flammable gas is developed, which is with the STM32F103 series single chip computer as main control system. The concentrations of methane and CO in workshop are monitored with MQ-2 and MQ-7 gas sensors, temperature and humidity in workshop are monitored with SHT30 sensor of temperature and humidity as well as the data collected by sensors is transmitted to mobile terminal with Bluetooth module. The data processing and analysis are realized with mobile terminal and Android operating system, which could meet the requirements of monitoring flammable gas used in smelting and rolling laboratory.

  • Bo Bai, Yaqiang Zhou, Cun Li
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(2): 77-79.

    With the scaling up of air separation equipment, the capacities of supporting motors for air compressor, supercharger and oxygen reciprocating compressor are also increased. The capacity of motor for air compressor is developed to over 20,000 kW and scaling up of motor has brought unprecedented challenges for control and starting of motor and power grid. The start-up process of high-capacity motor is particularly complicated. On the one hand, the influences on power grid should be considered, on the other hand, the impact on motor and starting equipment should also be considered. Various starting modes are adopted based on conditions and demands in the industry, the reduction voltage with auto transformer discussed in the paper is one of mature reduced voltage starting technologies. The impact of auto transformer on power grid is low as well as it is with simple operation and stable performances, so it is widely used in the air separation industry. If the control mode of reduced voltage starting for auto transformer is selected improperly, it will cause certain damages to motor. The start control of auto transformer is studied and analyzed through cases in the paper.

  • Hongchao Chen, Xuran He, Jianlin Deng, Junmin Dong, Jianqiang Zhao, Wen Chang, Yuchao Yang
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(2): 10-13.

    In order to change the current situations that iron grade of flotation tailings is higher and loss of ferrous metal is great in the complex process of iron separation of ore grinding, weak magnetic separation-high intensity magnetic separation-flotation, the recycling process of ore grinding-magnetic separation is adopted for flotation tailings. The contrast test for recovery of magnetic separation with single variable is carried out with different ore grinding modes (ball mill and attrition mill) and flotation tailings of different granularities. With the increase of proportion of fine minerals, the yield of magnetic concentrate is decreased from 76.73% to 48.78%, grade is increased from 38.1% to 61.15% and recovery rate is decreased from 86.20% to 78.29% after grinding flotation tailings by attrition mill. The yield of magnetic iron concentrate is decreased from 78.05% to 56.63%, grade is increased from 38.10% to 55.78% and recovery rate is decreased from 92.80% to 82.92% after grinding flotation tailings by ball mill under the same magnetic separation conditions.

  • Xiaoming Yuan, Yinan Yue
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(1): 1-3.

    In this paper, such aspects as microstructure, hardness and wear resistance of rare earth wear resistant steel plate BTNM450 of Baotou Steel and NM1# wear resistant steel plate produced by a foreign manufacturer are selected to be compared and analyzed. The study results showed that the wear extent of rare earth wear resistant steel plate BTNM450 of Baotou Steel was 0.390 0 g, which was significantly fewer than that of NM1# wear resistant steel plate. Compared with the wear resistant steel plate BTNM450-NORE without adding rare earth elements, the wear extent of rare earth wear resistant steel plate BTNM 450 of Baotou Steel after adding rare earth elements is reduced by 20.9%. The hardness distribution on section of NM1# wear resistant steel plate is not uniform and hardness of rare earth wear resistant steel plate BTNM450 of Baotou Steel does not change significantly along the direction of section thickness, which is with excellent wear resistance.

  • Xinyu Ma, Xiaoming Xu, Feng Hu, Peiyu Liu, Yongliang Wu
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(1): 88-91.

    The status survey and heat loss test of steam pipeline network system of Baotou Steel are carried out as well as its amount and rate of heat loss during heating season in the winter are calculated aiming at its existing problem of great heat loss. The energy saving transformation measures to reduce heat loss of steam pipeline network system are put forward by analyzing current influencing factors of greater heat loss for the system, which could provide the reference for transforming steam pipeline network system of Baotou Steel.

  • Changjun Fan
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(1): 72-75.

    With the increasing development and utilization of marine resources, corrosion of structural materials of marine engineering is facing severe challenges. In this article, it is summarized the research progress on corrosion status of steel in marine environment as well as deeply analyzed such influencing mechanisms as marine atmosphere, splash zone of seawater, tidal and splash zone as well as immersion zone of seawater on corrosion behavior of steel. The main current technical measures to retard corrosion of steel in marine environment are summarized as well as development direction and application prospect in future marine engineering of new corrosion-resistant steel are discussed by discussing the effects of such environmental factors as dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature, pH value and microorganism on corrosion rate of steel aiming to provide the technical support for improving corrosion resistance of structural materials of marine engineering.

  • Ying Kuang
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(1): 95-98.

    The management of receivables and payables is an important part of financial management in enterprise. If it is not in place, it will affect the capital chain of enterprise and then impact normal operations of enterprise. Therefore, the management of receivables and payables in enterprise should be strengthened as well as risk control of receivables and payables should be paid more attention to. In the article, it is expounded the necessities of management of receivables and payables as well as analyzed the management and risk control of receivables and payables with the SWOT model to reveal their internal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats they are facing by taking a research institute as an example, which could provide the reference for formulating effective management strategies and risk prevention measures.

  • Tao Li, Jinhou Qiu, Changyi Zhao
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(1): 20-23.

    In this paper, the research is carried out from such aspects as chemical composition, size composition, basic sintering characteristics and process parameters adjustment after production applications of Mongolian powder ore. The research results showed that the air permeability of sinter bed became worse, utilization coefficient was decreased by 0.001 t/ (m2·h), solid fuel consumption was increased by 0.83 kg/t, drum strength was decreased by 0.63 percentage point, average particle size was decreased by 0.05 mm, proportion of particle size of 5~10 mm in finished sinter was decreased by 0.12 percentage point and direct material cost was decreased by CNY 8.15 Yuan/ t when 7% Mongolian powder ore was used to replace the same proportion of Mac powder ore. The sintering process could maintain stable state by increasing moisture of mixture by 0.1 percentage point and fuel proportion by 0.2 percentage point.

  • Qiang Xu, Meiying Zhao, Wenyi Shi, Haonan Ge, Xiaodong Tan, Jizhong Zhang
    Rare Earth Steel. 2025, 51(1): 56-59.

    In the paper, it is introduced the Charpy pendulum impact test and drop weight tear test (DWTT) of L360M pipeline steel coil plate with the thickness specification of 11.00 mm. The test results showed that the differences of toughness at relevant positions of the same plate are smaller. It can be seen from the macroscopic morphology of fracture of samples for DWTT that the bigger the deflection of samples, the more obvious the distortion of samples for fracture after hammering to breakage, even some samples could not be hammered to breakage completely because of warping.