1. SiO 2 Promoted CaO Diffusion to C Phase at 1500 and 1700 °C.
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Ni, Lijuan, Wang, Renxing, Liu, Qingya, Wu, Junfei, Pan, Yue, Liu, Zhenyu, and Hjertager, Bjørn
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DIFFUSION ,KIRKENDALL effect ,MASS transfer ,GRAPHITE ,CALCIUM carbide - Abstract
To better understand the mass transfer behaviors in CaC
2 production from CaO and coke, this paper studies the diffusion behaviors of CaO and graphite, with or without ash, at 1500 and 1700 °C. CaO and graphite are pressed into tablets and heated alone or in close contact. Physical and chemical changes in these tablets are analyzed by XRD and SEM+EDX. In some experiments, thin Mo wires are placed between the closely contacted CaO and graphite tablets to identify the diffusion direction. It is found that the diffusion between CaO and low-ash graphite is very limited. SiO2 in a high-ash graphite diffuses into CaO tablet and reacts with CaO to form Ca2 SiO4 , which then diffuses into the graphite tablet easily and leads to CaC2 formation at 1700 °C. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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