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Two-way Valorization of Blast Furnace Slag: Synthesis of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate and Zeolitic Heavy Metal Adsorbent
Published on: February 21, 2017
Effects of Basicity, MgO, and Al2O3 on Thermodynamic and Physicochemical Properties of CaO-SiO2-MgO-Al2O3 Slag System
Zicheng Xin1, Jiangshan Zhang1, Qing Liu1
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
Ladle furnace (LF) refining is one of the most widely used secondary refining processes for producing clean steel and constitutes a key process in the steelmaking-continuous casting section. The properties of slag play a decisive role in determining molten steel quality and refining efficiency. In this study, based on the composition of refining slag from a steelmaking plant in China, the properties of a CaO-SiO2-MgO-Al2O3 slag system were investigated with respect to five aspects, the liquid phase region, sulphide capacity, melting properties, slag viscosity, and mineralogical phase precipitation, at varying temperatures, basicity, w(MgO) and w(Al2O3) using FactSage and the KTH model. Analysis of the slag properties indicates that the CaO-SiO2-MgO-Al2O3 slag system performs better when basicity ranges from 3 to 4, w(MgO) is between 6% and 8%, and w(Al2O3) is 15%-25%. These findings provide theoretical support and guidance for optimizing the refining slag system in plant trials.
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