Petrov P.Marinov M.Todorov P.Alexandrova R.Paunova R.2024-07-162024-07-162024-07-162024-07-162014-02-251314-74711314-7978SCOPUS_ID:84894065429https://rlib.uctm.edu/handle/123456789/1040The modern steel industry is characterized by continual improving the quality of the produced steel with constantly increasing range and quantity of deoxidation and alloying alloys. Among them falls SiCa with vanadium. Consider the absence in the Republic of Bulgaria of raw materials containing vanadium for example, the needs of metallurgy are provided mainly by imports of ferro-alloys. At the same time our country has an active chemical and metallurgical industries where significant polluting quantities of vanadium catalyst drop from production of sulfuric acid, which contains Si and V. Both material and heat balance models are developed for carbothermal producing of SiCa with a high content of vanadium. Vanadium waste, metallurgical lime and metallurgical coke are the raw material. The elements in the alloy after the carbothermal reduction are: V - 9.09 %, Fe - 9.06 %, Si - 66.45 %, Ca - 12.26 %, P - 0.02 %, S - 0.04 %, C - 0.21 %, Al - 2.83 % u Mn - 0.03 %. The main contributor into the alloy of V, Si and Fe is the waste vanadium catalyst. The relative consumption of electricity according to the heat balance model is 11505 kWh/ton alloy.enArticle