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Manganese Capacity and Optical Basicity of Metallurgical Slag

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In practice, the concept of slag capacity is used to assess the distribution of elements between condensed phases. In particular, researchers determine the sulfide, phosphate, chromate, and nitride capacity of slags. In the present work, a mathematical model of the manganese capacity is derived. To that end, two equivalent forms of the manganese capacity are derived from the equilibrium constants of the redox reaction of manganese [Mn] + (1/2)O2 = (MnO). These indices reflect the manganese distribution between the metal and the slag and do not depend on the composition of the metal and the gas phase. One version takes the form CMn = KMn/γ(MnO). If we take logarithms and use the known equilibrium constant KMn of the redox reaction, we may write logCMn = 21122/T–logγ(MnO)–4.5509. To find the activity coefficient of manganese oxide, equilibrium between hot metal, cast iron, ferrosilicon, ferromanganese, and the corresponding slags is studied experimentally at various temperatures, on circulatory apparatus permitting the study of heterogeneous equilibria involving the gas phase. Using the apparatus, the change in gas volume in the reactions is monitored and automatically recorded and constant pressure is automatically maintained in the system. The attainment of equilibrium is also judged from the constancy of chemical composition of the condensed phases over time. If numerical values of γ(MnO) are available, they may be used to calculate the manganese capacity of all the slags from the equation already given. For the sake of practical convenience, the manganese capacity is written in terms of the temperature and the optical basicity λed calculated from the electron density known for elements in the periodic table: logCMn =–1.866λed + 21049/T–3.131 (R2 = 0.997). According to this equation, the manganese capacity depends only on λed and the temperature and may be used for metals and slags of practically any composition.

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  1. Abishev Chemical and Metallurgical Institute, Karaganda, 100009, Republic of Kazakhstan

    A. A. Akberdin & U. K. Konurov

  2. Karaganda State Technical University, Karaganda, 100027, Republic of Kazakhstan

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Akberdin, U.K. Konurov, R.B. Sultangaziyev, 2018, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Chernaya Metallurgiya, 2018, No. 1, pp. 40–45.

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Akberdin, A.A., Konurov, U.K. & Sultangaziyev, R.B. Manganese Capacity and Optical Basicity of Metallurgical Slag. Steel Transl. 48, 7–10 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0967091218010023

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