AbstractA new method is reported for preparing poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT)/glass fiber (GF)-silicon carbide (SiC) composites. GFs were coated with SiC particles firstly and then the treated GFs (GF-SiC) were mixed with PBT. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images showed that some SiC particles dispersed on the surfaces of GFs, and other particles fell off from surfaces of GFs and dispersed around GFs after processing. The thermal conductivities of composites are increased with increase of GF-SiC. At 30 wt% GF-SiC, the thermal conductivity of composites reached 0.6392 W/mK, which improved nearly 160% compared to that of neat polymer. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) results indicated that GF-SiC increased crystallinity of PBT compared with that of neat PBT and had no obvious influence on the melting temperature of PBT. The crystallization temperature (Tc) and glass transition temperature of all samples shifted to a higher temperature. The addition of GF-SiC can improve the thermal stability of PBT/GF-SiC composites obviously. Dynamic mechanical properties and dielectric properties were also discussed in this paper.
Reduction of FeO-bearing molten slag using solid-carbon, existing in primary slag of blast furnace (BF), consumes much BF energy. It is also a limit for BF efficiency. In this paper, reduction kinetics behavior of FeO-CaO-SiO 2 -MgO-Al 2 O 3 molten slag (primary slag of BF) was investigated, and the restrictive step of the reaction was identified. It has been found that the reduction process of FeO-CaO-SiO 2 -MgO-Al 2 O 3 BF slag using solid-carbon is a second-order reaction. And the reduction process is controlled by both diffusion of FeO and gasification reaction of carbon in molten slag. The apparent activation energy of reaction is 342.37 kJ/mol, the diffusion activation energy of FeO in molten slag is 355 kJ/mol, and the gasification reaction activation energy of carbon is 152.98 kJ/mol. Additionally, it is also concluded that reduction rate is influenced by temperature (T), mass fraction of FeO ( w (FeO) ), and basicity (R) of the slag. Moreover, a reduction model of this slag system was established and verified by a series of experiments.
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