TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of MgO on formation and crystallization behaviors of calcium ferrite during heating and cooling processes
AU - Yang, Nan
AU - Guo, Xing Min
AU - Saito, Noritaka
AU - Nakashima, Kunihiko
AU - Zhao, Jie Ting
N1 - Funding Information:
Science Foundation of China for providing financial supports (U1460201, 51374017 and 51774029). Department of Material and Engineering in Kyushu University are also acknowledged for their support in the software of Factsage 7.
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© 2018 ISIJ.
PY - 2018/8/15
Y1 - 2018/8/15
N2 - MgO is one of essential component in blast furnace slag for improving the fluidity and desulfurization. Generally it is added via sintering process. It has been also proved in practice that the addition of MgO affects the quality of sinter significantly. However, the effect of MgO on formation and crystallization behaviors of calcium ferrite in sintering had been scarcely discussed. In this work, the crystalline products in CaO-Fe2O3 system with different content of MgO were identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). In order to follow the reactions during heating and cooling, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was also conducted. It was found that addition of MgO restrained the formation of CaFe2O4 leading to the decrease in content of original melt during sintering process. The contents of Ca2Fe2O5 and solid solution of magnetite (magnetite s.s) were increased and the crystallization of Ca2Fe2O5 was also promoted with increasing MgO. Compared with forming Ca2Fe2O5, addition of MgO facilitated to form magnetite s.s. Content of initial liquid phase was decreased with increasing MgO, whereas new liquid phase was generated at 1 609 K when the content of MgO exceeded 7 mass%, due to the reaction between Ca2Fe2O5 and magnetite.
AB - MgO is one of essential component in blast furnace slag for improving the fluidity and desulfurization. Generally it is added via sintering process. It has been also proved in practice that the addition of MgO affects the quality of sinter significantly. However, the effect of MgO on formation and crystallization behaviors of calcium ferrite in sintering had been scarcely discussed. In this work, the crystalline products in CaO-Fe2O3 system with different content of MgO were identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). In order to follow the reactions during heating and cooling, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was also conducted. It was found that addition of MgO restrained the formation of CaFe2O4 leading to the decrease in content of original melt during sintering process. The contents of Ca2Fe2O5 and solid solution of magnetite (magnetite s.s) were increased and the crystallization of Ca2Fe2O5 was also promoted with increasing MgO. Compared with forming Ca2Fe2O5, addition of MgO facilitated to form magnetite s.s. Content of initial liquid phase was decreased with increasing MgO, whereas new liquid phase was generated at 1 609 K when the content of MgO exceeded 7 mass%, due to the reaction between Ca2Fe2O5 and magnetite.
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U2 - 10.2355/isijinternational.ISIJINT-2018-028
DO - 10.2355/isijinternational.ISIJINT-2018-028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051496133
SN - 0915-1559
VL - 58
SP - 1406
EP - 1412
JO - Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
JF - Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
IS - 8
ER -