China's Refractories

《中国耐火材料》英文版

China's Refractories ›› 2022, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 22-27.DOI: 10.19691/j.cnki.1004-4493.2022.04.005

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Influence of Graphite on Molten-alkali Corrosion Resistance for β-SiAlON-SiC Materials

CAO Huiyan*, ZHANG Xinhua, HUANG Yifei, WANG Wenwu, WU Jiguang, BU Xiangjuan, XU Haiyang   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Refractories, Sinosteel Luoyang Institute of Refractories Research Co., Ltd., Luoyang 471039, China
  • Online:2022-12-15 Published:2022-12-23
  • Contact: * e-mail: 13838428457@126.com
  • About author:Cao Huiyan, born in 1982, obtained her master’s degree in 2008. She has been working in Sinosteel Luoyang Institute of Refractories Research Co., Ltd. since 2008. She commits herself for advanced SiC series refractories research and market development for more than 10 years. As a senior engineer, she is skilled in technical services and engineering guidance for SiC products, especially Si3N4 bonded SiC applied in aluminum reduction cell sidewalls and Si3N4/SiAlON bonded SiC applied in stacks, bellies and bosh liners, and also tuyere assembly bricks or tuyere blocks of blast furnaces, CDQ (especially for inclined channel area), SiC Muffle in heat treatment furnaces, sintered SiC ceramic slurry pump and SiC products with excellent steam oxidation used in WTE incinerators. She has authored and co-authored about 40 papers.

Abstract: β-SiAlON-SiC composites were prepared using SiC particles and fines, silicon powder, AlN powder, α-Al2O3 micropowder and flake graphite as starting materials. The influence of the graphite ( particle size of ≤45 and ≤300 μm, addition of 3.0%, 5.5%, 7.5%, and 10.0%, by mass) on the molten-alkali corrosion resistance was investigated. The results show that the molten-alkali resistance for the β-SiAlON-SiC sample with 7.5% of graphite (≤300 μm) is optimal, showing the lowest mass change rate after corrosion and the highest retention ratios of cold modulus of rupture and hot modulus of rupture.

Key words: β-SiAlON-SiC, graphite, molten-alkali corrosion resistance, phase composition, microstructure