Estimation of viscosity for some silicate ternary slags

Abstract

A new method, combining KTH model with geometrical model (General solution model by Chou) to estimate viscosity of some ternary silicate slags, was proposed in this work. According to modified KTH model, viscous Gibbs free energy for mixing of ternary slags was estimated by employing general solution model. It was found that viscous Gibbs energy for mixing of ternary system could be calculated using solely viscous Gibbs energy for mixing of sub-binary systems. The viscosities of five ternary slags CaO-MnO-SiO2, CaO-FeO-SiO2, FeO-MnO-SiO2, CaO-MgO-SiO2 and FeO-MgO-SiO2 were estimated in the present work. A good agreement with available experimental data, with mean deviation less than 20%, was achieved. The modified KTH model has advantages with less model parameters and improved estimation ability by comparison to original KTH model.

Keywords

• slag
• viscosity
• estimation
• KTH model
• general solution model
• silicates