Fe-TiC powder synthesized from black sand ilmenite and natural rutile through mechanical activation followed by reduction.
Fe-TiC synthesized from ilmenite was obtained by milling for 50 h, followed by carbothermic reduction at 1200°C for 3 h.
No significant effect of increasing temperature up to 1300°C was observed during synthesis of Fe-TiC from black sand ilmenite
Fe-TiC was obtained from natural rutile with traces of (Ti2O3) after 60h of milling and reduction at 1300°C for 3h.
The morphology of the Fe-TiC produced from black sand ilmenite showed a homogeneous distribution of Fe and TiC the produced from natural rutile showed intense distribution of TiC phase with traces of iron and lower titanium oxide