Die Verzunderung von Eisen zwischen 700 und 900 °C in CO/CO2-Gemischen mit kleinen Zusätzen von COS,SO2 und H2S

Scaling of iron between 700 and 900°C in CO/CO₂mixtures with minor additions of COS, SO₂ and H₂S Scaling of iron in CO/CO, mixtures containing less than 1.6% COS, H₂S or SO₂follows initially a linear kinetic law. The transition from the linear to the parabolic law is displaced toward shorter periods with increasing sulfur contents in the gas and with decreasing temperature. At 800 and 900°C the rate of the reaction between iron and the sul-fur compound in the gas is controlled by the mass transfer in the gas phase. In this conditions the reaction rates with COS and H₂S are practically identical, while the reaction with SO₂yields al-most double the weight increase because in this case not only sulfur, but also part of the oxygen of SO₂ react with iron. At 700°C there is a transition of the control mechanism in CO/CO₂C/S mixtures with increasing COS contents, namely from control by mass transfer in the gas phase to control by the phase boundary reaction. Some consequences concerning the heating of steel in technical furnaces are discussed.