Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1628199 Journal of Iron and Steel Research, International 2015 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

The deoxidation equilibrium of liquid steel was investigated from a new perspective. Dissolved associate MmOn was used to describe the interaction between dissolved M and dissolved oxygen instead of the interaction parameter of Wagner. The concentration of unassociated oxygen could be considered as the activity of oxygen. Or, the percentage of unassociated oxygen in the total dissolved oxygen was the activity coefficient of oxygen. When the content of deoxidizer was low, the dissolved oxygen was mainly composed of the unassociated oxygen, while more and more MxO formed with gradually increasing M content. The present model gave a good description to the aluminum deoxidation equilibrium after considering AlO and Al2O. Furthermore, the higher the content of Al was, the higher the content of Al2O relative to the content of AlO would be.

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