Abstract:
In accordance with the coexistence theory of slag structure and the phase diagram, mass action concentration calculating models corresponding to various temperature ranges for CaO-SiO
2 slag system are formulated. Calculated results at steelmaking temperatures show that both calculating models, considering two silicates (CaSiO
3 and Ca
2SiO
4) and considering three silicates (CaSiO
3,Ca
2SiO
4 and Ca
3SiO
6), are applicable for mass action concentration calculation. Comparison of different calculating variants has proved that using thermodynamic data obtained by the regression analysis in this paper gives better agreement between calculated
NCaO and measured
aCaO than using the data from references does, so the later should be investigated in detail in the future. The correspondence of maximum mass action concentrations of silicates with their congruent melting points in phase diagram tells us that silicates play very important roles in the melting temperature of the givem system. The appearance of minimum Σn in the course of its variation with basicity can be explained by the fact that several structural units can combine to form one silicate molecule.