Study the ability of using basic oxygen furnace slag as a flux for removing impurities from liquid iron in a pre-treatment process

Abstract

In this study, a flux, mixture of basic oxygen furnace (BOF) slag and CaO powder, was investigated the ability of the slag recycling in a pre-treatment process. The first step of the experimental procedure was to melt iron using a high-frequency induction furnace, then 3 kg of flux was embedded into the metal. There were two kinds of experimental conditions including with and without Argon gas protection of the furnace. After ten minutes from the moment of adding the flux, the metal and slag samples were taken out for chemical composition analysis. The results showed that Sulphur (S) content of the iron significantly decreased by 38% and 19% with and without the Argon gas protection, respectively. Meanwhile, the Phosphorus (P) content of the iron was concluded to be independent of the conditional experiments. Besides, the Fe content of the slag decreased in both cases of experiments.