Abstract:
The morphology of the reduction products of Fe-Cr-O systems by C at different temperatures and time intervals was studied in this paper. The samples include two systems of FeCr
2O
4 +C and Fe
2O
3 +2Cr
2O
3 +C. It is found that the reduction degrees of the two samples increase with increasing temperature, and the reduction degree can be above 90% when the reaction is close to balance. The reduction processes of FeCr
2O
4 and Fe
2O
3-Cr
2O
3 are similar and the final reduction products are composed of Fe-Cr-C alloys and metal carbides (mainly Cr
7C
3). A method was proposed to estimate the contents of Fe-Cr-C alloys and metal carbides in the final reduction products, and the estimated results agree with the calculated data. It is shown that the content of Fe-Cr-C alloys increases while the content of metal carbides decreases with increasing temperature, and the composition of Fe-Cr-C alloys varies with temperature.