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The influence of the CaO/SiO2 ratio on flux viscosity at 1300°C, break temperature and crystallization was investigated.
The thermo-chemical software FactSage was used for the calculation of the viscosity, the equilibrium phase content and the liquidus temperature. Based on these results, two sample series with 8.8 wt% TiO2, 5 wt% B2O3 and CaO/SiO2 ratios from 0.8–1.2 were manufactured. Series M1 contained Li2O which was replaced by a higher content of Na2O for F-free mixtures in series M2. The viscosity and break temperature were determined through rotational viscometry, the crystallization temperature and crystalline fraction by a so called Furnace Crystallization Test, a macro style differential thermal analysis which enables a mineralogical investigation of the samples afterwards.
The experiments exhibited that the break temperature, the liquidus temperature and the crystalline fraction rose with increasing C/S ratio while the viscosity decreased for both sequences.
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Marschall, I., Yang, X., Harmuth, H. (2016). Fundamental investigations for the design of fluorine free mold powder compositions. In: Reddy, R.G., Chaubal, P., Pistorius, P.C., Pal, U. (eds) Advances in Molten Slags, Fluxes, and Salts: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48769-4_32
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