Abstract
It is widely recognized that inclusions in steel cause defects to the products. Therefore, it is important to remove inclusions from liquid steel. The attachment and removal by bubble flotation is expected as one of promising techniques for inclusion removal in liquid steel. The process of particle removal by bubbles is influenced by various factors, including the liquid flow, particle diameter, bubble size. The present work is intended to investigate experimentally the effects of some factors such as particle diameter, gas flow rate and agitation speed to particle removal rate. In this study, water model experiments on bubble flotation have been done under turbulent flow condition using a mechanically agitated vessel. It was confirmed that the change in particle concentration of suspended liquid with time shows first order kinetics until 4 minutes in the initial stage. Furthermore, it was found that the particle removal rate has increased with increasing particle diameter, gas flow rate and agitation speed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 584-590 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2006 Oct |
Keywords
- Bubble-particle collision and attachment
- Flotation
- Gas bubble
- Inclusion
- Inclusion-removal rate constant
- Liquid steel
- Water-model experiment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Metals and Alloys
- Materials Chemistry