Abstract:
Taking the base slag system of low-reactive CaO-Al
2O
3-Li
2O-B
2O
3-CaF
2 mold fluxes as the object, and with the aid of equipment such as the single hot thermocouple technique, scanning electron microscope, and X-ray diffraction analyzer, the effects of substituting B
2O
3 for CaF
2 on the properties of the slag such as crystallization temperature, critical cooling rate, crystallization incubation time and crystalline phases were investigated, and the crystallization kinetics analysis was carried out. The results show that using B
2O
3 instead of CaF
2 can effectively reduce the crystallization tendency of the slag. When the w(B
2O
3)/w(CaF
2) ratio increases from 0.44 to 2.25, the critical cooling rate rises. When the ratio of w(B
2O
3) to w(CaF
2) is 2.25, the critical cooling rate reaches 12 ℃/s, and the crystallization performance is the weakest. With the increase of the substitution amount of B
2O
3 for CaF
2, the crystallization inoculation time shows a trend of first increasing and then shortening. During the cooling process of the slag, the initial crystalline phase formed changes from CaAl
2O
4 to CaAl
4O
7. The change law of the full crystalline phase is CaAl
2O
4+CaF
2→CaAl
4O
7+CaF
2→CaAl
4O
7+CaF
2+Ca
5B
3O
9F. Kinetic analysis indicates that when w(B
2O
3)/w(CaF
2) is less than 1.6, the crystal growth changes from three-dimensional to two-dimensional as the temperature drops, with a transition temperature of 1 100 ℃. When w(B
2O
3)/w(CaF
2) is greater than or equal to 1.6, the crystals precipitated in the slag always grow in three dimensions. Moreover, as the substitution amount of B
2O
3 for CaF
2 increases, the precipitation of Ca
5B
3O
9F promotes the three-dimensional growth of the crystal. When the ratio of w(B
2O
3) to w(CaF
2) is 0.625 to 1, the crystallization performance of the slag is relatively weak, and the types of crystalline phases are fewer, which is more conducive to the regulation of crystallization performance.