Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.101, No.2, 634-643, 2018
Investigation of sulfide capacity of aluminosilicate slag based on ionic structure considerations
The present study investigated the relationship between sulfide capacity and the average nonbridging oxygens to tetrahedral cations (NBO/T) of CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-MgO slags. The sulfide capacity and NBO/T increase with increasing Al2O3/SiO2 ratio and X-CaO due to increasing basicity. The inflected dependence of sulfide capacity and NBO/T observed at a eutectic composition. Thermodynamic investigations revealed that the inflected dependence is caused by the effects of mixing enthalpy and entropy components in eutectic composition. Quantitative analysis of sulfide capacity and NBO/T revealed a proportional linear relationship between the two variables. Based on these experimental results, the corresponding structure-property relationships concerning sulfide capacity, viscosity, and stability are discussed in detail.