Kinetic study of droplet swelling in BOF steelmaking

Previous work in the authors' laboratory has shown that an understanding of droplet swelling is essential in predicting droplet residence times in basic oxygen steelmaking. Several workers have observed swelling of high carbon droplets when exposed to oxidising slags. In the present work, the authors present data on swelling rates measured by X-ray fluoroscopy and compare this with the total volume of gas evolved during the reaction. It is …