A MoSi 2 -resistor furnace with an alumina tube was used for the equilibrium experiments. The master slag was prepared by melting mixtures of reagent grade CaO, SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , and MgO in a MgO crucible using an induction furnace in open air and the master alloy, carbon-saturated iron, was melted in a graphite crucible under a carbon monoxide ISIJ International, Vol. 41 (2001), No. 12, pp. 1447No. 12, pp. -1453No. 12, pp. 1447 © 2001 ISIJ
Thermodynamics of Titanium Oxide in Ladle SlagsSung-Mo JUNG and R. J. It is necessary to have information on the thermodynamic behavior of titanium oxide in ladle type slags in order to control the titanium content in several grades of steel. In the present study, the thermodynamics was determined from the equilibrium between Fe-C sat -Ti and CaO-SiO 2 --30%Al 2 O 3 -MgO-TiOx slags in equilibrium with CO and from the equilibrium between Fe-C sat -(16ϳ18)%Cr-Si-Ti and CaO-SiO 2 -20%Al 2 O 3 -MgO-TiOx slags in equilibrium with CO. From the experiment with Fe-C sat -Ti alloy, the activity coefficients of TiO 1.5 and TiO 2 vary with basicity from 0.3 to 1.5 and from 0.5 to 2.3, respectively. And from the experiment with Fe-C sat -(16ϳ18)%Cr-Si-Ti alloy, the activity coefficients of TiO 1.5 and TiO 2 vary with basicity from 0.4 to 1.4 and from 0.6 to 3.5, respectively. The results obtained from the equilibrium between Fe-C sat -(16ϳ18)%Cr-Si-Ti and CaO-SiO 2 -20%Al 2 O 3 -MgO-TiOx slags were used to estimate the titanium content of silicon-added stainless steel. Experiments were also conducted using Fe-Al-Ti melts in equilibrium with CaO-SiO 2 -Al 2 O 3 -TiO x slags saturated with MgO. In this case most of the titanium in the slag is present as TiO 2 (Ti 4ϩ ). The present results were used to predict the titanium content of aluminum-killed steel in equilibrium with ladle slags containing titanium oxide and the predictions agreed with plant data.KEY WORDS: ladle slags, titanium oxide, activity, silicon-added stainless steel, aluminum-killed steel. For the equilibrium experiments between ladle type slags and Fe-C sat -Ti alloys or Fe-C sat -18%Cr-Ti, 5.0 g of slag was made by mixing the master slag and TiO 2 , and 10 g of the master alloys were equilibrated in a graphite crucible at 1 873 K for 24 hr under a CO atmosphere. And for the equilibrium experiments between ladle type slags and Fe-Al-Ti alloys, 8.0 g of slags uniformly mixed and 15-20 g of alloys were melted in a MgO crucible under a purified Ar atmosphere. Since the Fe-Al-Ti experiments were conducted in MgO crucibles, the slags were saturated with MgO and contained significantly more MgO. Preliminary experiments indicated for these experiments that 4 hr was sufficient to achieve equilibrium. The crucible containing a sample was then pulled out of the furnace and rapidly quenched in an Ar gas stream. The ground slag samples and the metals were chemically analyzed for CaO, SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , MgO, TiO 1.5 and TiO 2 and for C, Si and Ti, respectively.
Chemical AnalysisThe SiO 2 content in the slag and silicon in me...