Kinetic experiment of dissolving coke in molten iron

The liquid iron carburization in the blast furnace process can almost come to a saturation state, while, that in flash ironmaking process is unexpected, since there is no solid charge that will press the hot metal and no carburization reaction that occurs between the bottom deadman. In order to study the kinetics of coke dissolution into the molten iron in flash iron- making process, a series of experiments were carried out. Reduced iron powder and chemically pure graphite were used as raw materials, and the tubular resistance furnace was employed to heat the samples up to 1855K and melt them, and the high- purity N2 was injected as the protective gas throughout the experiments. The experimental results show that without regard to the factor kt of dissolution rate, the values of kt under natural convection condition are 4. 20??m/s in group 1, 5. 28??m/s in group 2 and 6. 50??m/s in group 3. On the contrary, when taking this factor into account, kt decreases with time increase and only can be controlled by the mass transfer. Besides, when there is sulfur in the iron- carbon melts, it shows that kt also decreases with the increase of sulfur content.