Thermal Shock analysis of MgO-MgAl2O4 Refractories Produced from Local MgAl2O4

THERMAL SHOCK OF REFRACTORIES

Being brittle and having low thermal conductivity, refractories suffer damage and sometimes fail in service as a result of thermal shock. While the approach of those making fine-grained technical ceramics is to make their products sufficiently strong to withstand thermal stresses the refractory technologist is more cunning. He uses, often little known, devices to provide resistance to thermal s...

Ternary System Al2O3–MgO–CaO: I, Primary Phase Field of Crystallization of Spinel in the Subsystem MgAl2O4–CaAl4O7–CaO–MgO

Using a novel experimental procedure in the field of ceramics/materials science that is based on the precise microanalysis (scanning electron microscopy, coupled with wavelength-dispersive spectroscopy) of the phases that are present in equilibrated specimens, the solid-state compatibility relations in the subsystem MgAl2O4–CaAl4O7–CaO– MgO and the melting relationships in the subsystems MgAl2O...

Structural relaxation around substitutional Cr3+ in MgAl2O4

RECYCLING PRACTICES OF SPENT MgO-C REFRACTORIES

The recycling options of spent MgO-C refractories from an electrical arc furnace (EAF) have been evaluated. The economic, quality of spent refractories and products made from it, the ease of implementation of a recycling practice and the interest of steel melt shops were considered. It was decided that the best option of most EAF shops would be to recycle spent MgO-C refractory as a foaming sla...

Spectroscopic studies of Ti3+ ions speciation inside MgAl2O4 spinels

An electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) investigation on Ti-doped MgAl2O4 spinels has been made in order to study the Ti sites. The study we present here concerns the angular dependencies of the Ti EPR lines and the variations of the EPR spectra due to a modification of the TiO2 content or of the chemical composition from MgAl2O4 to MgAl4O7 and MgAl6O10. In all the studied samples except one, ...