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Wettability and Interfacial Phenomena Between Silicon and Sulfur-Bearing Steels and Solid CaO Substrates

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The wettability between a Si–S steel with 0.2 wt pct sulfur and 0~3.5 wt pct silicon and a CaO substrate was investigated using a sessile drop method at 1550 °C. The equilibrium contact angle between the Si–S steel and the CaO substrate was 95, 136, 142 and 142 deg when the content of silicon in the steel was 0, 1.4, 2.8, and 3.5 wt pct, respectively. When there was no silicon in the steel, the steel hardly reacted with the CaO substrate. However, when the steel contained > 1 wt pct silicon, a reaction layer composed of CaS and 2CaO·SiO2 was generated at the interface between the molten steel and the substrate. Besides, the thickness of the reaction layer increased from 0 to 36 μm with the silicon content in the steel increasing from 0 to 2.8 wt pct, because the dissolved oxygen was reduced by silicon. However, when the silicon content increased to 3.5 wt pct, the thickness of the reaction layer reversely decreased, which was attributed to the prevention of the sulfur diffusion in the dense solid state reaction layer.

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The authors are grateful for support from the National Key R&D Program (No. 2023YFB3709900), the National Natural Science Foundation China (Grant No. U22A20171), the Hebei Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. E2021203062), and the High Steel Center (HSC) at Yanshan University, Hebei Innovation Center of the Development and Application of High Quality Steel Materials, Hebei International Research Center of Advanced and Intelligent Manufacturing of High Quality Steel Materials.

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    Tianhao Ma

  3. School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing, 100144, China

    Lifeng Zhang

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Huang, C., Ma, T., Ren, Q. et al. Wettability and Interfacial Phenomena Between Silicon and Sulfur-Bearing Steels and Solid CaO Substrates. Metall Mater Trans B 55, 1830–1842 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-024-03069-3

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