ABSTRACT
Cooling regime of stainless-steel slag has a great influence on the migration rule of chromium. Effect of cooling rate on chromium distribution in CaO–SiO2–MgO–Al2O3–FexO–Cr2O3 system has been studied by FactSage, XRD and SEM-EDS in this paper. Results showed that the main phases in stainless-steel slag are spinel, bredigite, wustite, lime and periclase. Chromium was enriched in the stable phases. With the decrease in cooling rate, the size of chromium-rich phase increased relatively while chromium content in spinel phase reduced. Rapid cooling was favourable to the chromium enrichment in spinel phase in high basicity (high than 2.0) stainless-steel slag.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on the original manuscript.
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