Decarburization of Iron Carbon Droplets with Oxidizing Slag: An Experimental Study to Understand the Effect of Ionic and Electronic Conductivity on Decarburization Kinetics

An experimental study was performed to investigate the effect of ionic and electronic conductivity of oxidizing slags on the kinetics of decarburization of liquid metal droplets. An approach based on Wagner’s oxidation theory was developed to analyze the reaction kinetics with the variation of the slag conductivity. Despite the sufficiency of reactants, a sudden shutdown of decarburization reaction was observed for lower conductivity slag, …