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Refractories in slagging gasifers. Seventh quarterly progress report, April 1-June 30, 1982

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6458678· OSTI ID:6458678
Refractories used in coal gasifiers at high temperatures are subject to severe corrosion by coal-ash slags. Equilibrium relations are being determined for a number of oxide combination of simplified coal-ash slags, mainly in the system CaO-FeO-A1/sub 2/O/sub 3/-SiO/sub 2/, with refractory oxides (MgO, A1/sub 2/O/sub 3/,Cr/sub 2/O/sub 3/) as additional components. Special attention is directed toward chromium oxide-containing phases (mainly A1/sub 2/O/sub 3/-Cr/sub 2/O/sub 3/ solid solutions and various spinel phases involing Cr/sub 2/O/sub 3/ as a component), and toward determining the role of iron oxide in reactions involving such phases with coal-ash slags. The equilibrium relations in systems involving Fe and Cr are dependent on the oxygen potential. The present studies, therefore, are carried out under carefully controlled atmospheric conditions. Most of the runs are made under the relatively reducing conditions of CO/sub 2/-H/sub 2/ atmosphere of ratio CO/sub 2//H/sub 2/=10/1, while additional runs are being made in CO/sub 2/-H/sub 2/ atmospheres of other CO/sub 2//H/sub 2/ ratios, in pure CO/sub 2/, in O/sub 2/-N/sub 2/ atmospheres, in air, or in Ar atmosphere in the presence of metallic Cr.
Research Organization:
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park (USA). Coll. of Earth and Mineral Sciences
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
6458678
Report Number(s):
DOE/OR/21400-T44; ON: DE84017618
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English