Quasi-chemical viscosity model for fully liquid slag in the Al2O3-CaO-MgO-SiO2 system. Part II: evaluation of slag viscosities

A model is presented that enables viscosities to be predicted reliably over the whole range of compositions and temperatures in the AlO -CaO-MgO-SiO slag system above liquidus in the temperature range from 1543 K to 2643 K (1270°C to 2370°C). Experimental procedures and data from the studies reported in the literature have been collected and critically reviewed with particular attention to the viscometry methods and possible contamination of slag samples to select reliable data points for further model development. Relevant revised formalism to describe the complex viscosity trends including charge-compensation effect of the Ca and Mg cations on the formation of tetrahedrally coordinated Al was introduced. Parameters of the quasi-chemical viscosity model have been optimized to reproduce within experimental uncertainties most of the selected experimental data in the AlO -CaO-MgO-SiO system and all subsystems. This study is part of the overall development of the self-consistent viscosity model of the AlO-CaO-FeO-FeO- MgO-Na O-SiO multicomponent slag system

Review of experimental data and modeling of the viscosities of fully liquid slags in the Al2O3-CaO-'FeO'-SiO2 system

A general model based on the Urbain formalism has been developed, which enables the viscosities of liquid slags to be predicted for all compositions in the Al2O3-CaO-'FeO'-SiO2 system in equilibrium with metallic iron. Available experimental viscosity data have been analyzed and critically reviewed. The Urbain formalism has been modified to include compositional dependent model parameters. Experimental data in unaries, binaries, ternaries, and the quaternary system have been described by the model over the whole compositional and temperature ranges using one set of model parameters. This viscosity model can now be applied to various industrial slag systems

A quasi-chemical viscosity model for fully liquid slags in the Al2O3-CaO-'FeO'-SiO2 system

A structurally based viscosity model for fully liquid silicate slags has been proposed and applied to the Al2O3-CaO-'FeO'-SiO2 system at metallic iron saturation. The model links the slag viscosity to the internal structure of melts through the concentrations of various anion/cation structural units (SUs). The concentrations of structural units are equivalent to the second nearest neighbor bond concentrations calculated by the quasi-chemical thermodynamic model. This viscosity model describes experimental data over the entire temperature and composition range within the Al2O3-CaO-'FeO'-SiO2 system at metallic iron saturation and can be extended to other industrial slag systems