Basic oxygen steelmaking slag: formation, reaction, and energy and material recovery

Z Li, J Li, S Spooner… - steel research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) slag, a product of hot metal element (eg, Si, Mn, Fe, P)
oxidation and flux (eg lime, dolomite) dissolution, plays a critical role in the production of …

Numerical simulation of the interaction between supersonic oxygen jets and molten slag–metal bath in steelmaking BOF process

Q Li, M Li, S Kuang, Z Zou - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2015 - Springer
The impinging of multiple jets onto the molten bath in the BOF steelmaking process plays a
crucial role in reactor performance but is not clearly understood. This paper presents a …

Optimization of energy use with CO2 emission reducing in an integrated iron and steel plant

Q Zhang, Z Wei, J Ma, Z Qiu, T Du - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy consumption and Carbon emission in iron and steel industry are enormous and
need to meet an optimal strategy. Many researches have focused on iron and steel making …

Acoustic Analysis of Slag Foaming in the BOF

J Heenatimulla, GA Brooks, M Dunn, D Sly, R Snashall… - Metals, 2022 - mdpi.com
The control of slag foam that is produced during the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) process
has been the subject of significant research. The behaviour of slag foams is complex …

Effect of impact cavity shape induced by supersonic oxygen jet on the dynamic characteristics of molten bath in converter

J Sun, J Zhang, W Lin, L Cao, X Feng… - steel research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The cavity shape formed by the impinging of the supersonic oxygen jet on liquid metal
surface is of importance to the converter steelmaking process. This work adopts the volume …

Effect of bottom blowing mode on fluid flow and mixing behavior in converter

J Sun, J Zhang, W Lin, X Feng, Q Liu - Metals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bottom blowing agitation plays a crucial role in improving the reaction kinetics condition of
molten bath during the steelmaking process. Herein, the influence of bottom blowing mode …

Dynamic model of basic oxygen steelmaking process based on multi-zone reaction kinetics: Model derivation and validation

BK Rout, G Brooks, MA Rhamdhani, Z Li… - … Materials Transactions B, 2018 - Springer
A multi-zone kinetic model coupled with a dynamic slag generation model was developed
for the simulation of hot metal and slag composition during the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) …

Toward the bath flow interaction of a 250 t combined top and bottom blowing converter based on a mathematical modeling

X Zhou, Y Liu, P Ni, S Peng - steel research international, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the fluid mechanical aspects involving flow interactions between flows formed by the
top impinging jet and bottom blowing bubbles in a combined blowing converter bath are …

Determination of cavity dimensions induced by impingement of gas jets onto a liquid bath

M Li, Q Li, S Kuang, Z Zou - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2016 - Springer
This paper presents an experimental and theoretical study on the cavity profile induced by
the impingement of top-blown multiple gas jets onto a water or oil/water bath. The depth and …

Comprehensive model of oxygen steelmaking part 3: decarburization in impact zone

N Dogan, GA Brooks, MA Rhamdhani - ISIJ international, 2011 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The development of a global model for oxygen steelmaking and its validation against
industrial data has been reported in Part 1 of this paper. Part 2 of this paper explained the …