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The effect of cerium oxide on the viscosity and crystallization temperature of slags of the CaO–SiO2–Ce2O3–Al2O3–MgO oxide system is studied using an electrovibrational viscometer. The structural characteristics of hardened slag samples are studied using a Raman microscope-spectrometer. The results demonstrate that the viscosity and crystallization temperature of the slags are considerably reduced upon adding cerium oxide. An increase in content of Ce2O3 from 0% to 15% facilitates decrease in slag viscosity from 0.4 to 0.2 Pa ∙ s at 1500 °C and reduction in crystallization temperature from 1485 °C to 1397 °C. The structural analysis results reveal that the main form of polymerization of the [SiO4]-tetrahedra in the silicate regions are the structural units \({Q}_{\mathrm{Si}}^{0}\), \({Q}_{\mathrm{Si}}^{1}\), and \({Q}_{\mathrm{Si}}^{2}\) for the slags with 0%, 5%, and 10% Ce2O3, respectively, except for the slag with 15% Ce2O3, for which we noted only 2 units \({Q}_{\mathrm{Si}}^{0}\) and \({Q}_{\mathrm{Si}}^{1}\), which shows structural simplification. A second characteristic peak appears with increase in content of cerium oxide, corresponding to the [AlO6]-octahedral unit, which also indicates structure simplification. The degree of melt polymerization decreases from 0.83 to 0.52 with increase in content of cerium oxide, which explains the decrease in viscosity and crystallization temperature. Cerium oxide is used as a structure modifier to reduce the slag viscosity.
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This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 22-29-00975, https://rscf.ru/project/22-29-00975/.
The study was performed using equipment from the Shared Access Center “Composition of Compounds” of the Institute of High Temperature Electrochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Translated from Metallurg, No. 11, pp. 22–26, November, 2023. Russian DOI: https://doi.org/10.52351/00260827_2023_11_22
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Upolovnikova, A.G., Shartdinov, R.R. & Smetannikov, A.N. Structure and viscosity of slags containing cerium oxide. Metallurgist (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-024-01655-z
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