Eight
fractions of ferrospheres in a range of sizes from 0.4 to
0.02 mm recovered from high-calcium fly ash have been studied. The
major component composition of obtained fractions can be described
by two linear regression equations, [CaO] = 54.50 – 0.54[FeO]
and [SiO2] = 27.71 – 0.29[FeO] with the correlation
coefficients of −0.96 and −0.88, respectively. On the
basis of SEM-EDS study of the structure of 540 ferrospheres, it was
found that the fraction −0.04 + 0.032 mm contains the individual
globules with block-like, plate-like, and dendritic structures in
concentrations of 60, 10–13, and 13–15%, respectively.
The block-like globules containing 94–95 wt % FeO mainly consist
of intergrown blocks (“single-block type”) of the ferrospinel
which is subjected to partial martitization in regions with CaO content
more than 0.9 wt %. The composition of the local sites of the plate-like
globules containing 79–90 wt % FeO and 3.5–14.0 wt %
CaO are characterized by the general dependence [CaO] = 87.4 –
0.93[FeO] with the correlation coefficient −0.96. These globules
consist of the fragments of the “core–shell”
type with the size ranging from 3 to 6 μm. The composition of
the core with the block-like structure corresponds to a region of
ferrospinel crystallization on the phase diagram Fe
x
O
y
–CaO system. The composition
of the shell with a plate-like structure corresponds to a region of
the crystallization of the Fe2O3, CaFe2O4, and CaFe4O7 phases. The composition
of the local sites of the dendritic individual globules containing
∼90 wt % FeO and 4.8–5.5 wt % SiO2 are characterized
by the general dependence [SiO2] = 61.3 – 0.63[FeO]
with the correlation coefficient −0.94. It was shown that the
structure of ferrospinel aggregates depends on the concentrations
of Al2O3 and MgO.
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