Viscosities and activities in lead-smelting slags

Autor: Thomas P. Battle, John P. Hager
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Metallurgical Transactions B. 21:501-510
ISSN: 2379-0229
0360-2141
DOI: 10.1007/bf02667862
Popis: Viscosity measurements at high temperature were made using a concentric cylinder viscometer. These measurements were conducted on a typical lead blast furnace slag, and this master slag doped with various amounts of SiO2, A12O3, CaO, MgO, and/or ZnO. It was found that additions of A12O2 and/or SiO2 increased the viscosity of the master slag over the entire temperature range of interest (1150 °C to 1350 °C). Additions of the basic oxides CaO, MgO, and/or ZnO decreased the viscosity at high temperatures but raised the slag liquidus temperature. The majority of the measured viscosities are accurate within ± 10 pct. The viscosity data of this study, along with that of several similar studies from the literature, were correlated with the weight parameter (WP), a composition-dependent function similar to a basicity ratio. Analytical expressions were developed relating viscosity and the WP at several temperatures between 1150 °C and 1350 °C. Viscosities calculated using these expressions have estimated accuracies of ±1 poise (within certain temperature and composition limits). PbO and ZnO activity coefficient data from the literature were collected and correlated with composition-dependent functions. The calculated activity coefficients are considered accurate within ±0.3 for γpbo and ±0.5 for γzn within certain composition and temperature limits.
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