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Steel dissolution in quiescent and gas stirred Fe/C melts

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The dissolution rates of commercial black iron rods in iron/carbon melts under isothermal conditions were measured. The effect of melt carbon content, temperature, natural convection, and gas stirred forced convection conditions were investigated. The experimental data under natural convection conditions (no external stirring) were fitted with a dimensionless correlation for vertical cylinders: Sh = 0.13(Gr . Sc)0.34, representing mass transport control dominated by turbulent natural convection. Under bottom injection gas stirring conditions, it was found that the kinetic power input had little effect on the rod dissolution rates which were controlled by the total gas flow rate. Derived mass transport coefficients under gas stirring conditions were found to have the following dependence on the gas injection rates:k m ∝Q 0.21, wherek m = mass transport coefficient andQ = gas flow rate. A comparison of the experimental results with previously measured mass transfer coefficients under forced convection conditions gave a plume velocity flow rate dependence ofU ∝Q 0.3. A general discussion of gas stirring fluid dynamics and resulting mass transport effects is presented.

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Wright, J.K. Steel dissolution in quiescent and gas stirred Fe/C melts. Metall Trans B 20, 363–374 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02696988

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