@inproceedings{9f450332d6414bd49b696f2a9ddf90a6,
title = "Interfacial phenomena and thermophysical properties of molten steel and oxides",
abstract = "At present, interfacial phenomena between molten steel and oxides, usually called slag or mold flux, play an important role in steel processing for material design. Therefore, understanding interfacial tension is important for process control. From this, we propose an interfacial tension measurement technique between molten steel and oxides using a modified oscillating drop method with levitation techniques. The interfacial tension data using traditional techniques based on the sessile drop method have been obtained only at temperatures around the melting point of iron due to dissolution of containers and the substrate into molten steel and oxides in higher temperature regions. Our proposed technique to obtain the temperature dependence of interfacial tension between molten iron and oxides is to use a core-shell form droplet including an interface between two liquids using electrostatic levitation, which negates the use for containers. The experiment was performed on the International Space Station using the electrostatic levitation furnace (ELF) in the KIBO module.",
keywords = "Flux, Interfacial tension, Levitation, Microgravity, Slag",
author = "Masahito Watanabe and Kenta Onodera and Shoya Ueno and Takao Tsukada and Toshihiro Tanaka and Haruka Tamaru and Takehiko Ishikawa",
note = "Funding Information: This work is supported by JAXA. The Parabolic Flight experiment was supported by Diamond Air Service Inc. and Asoc. Prof. Shumpei Ozawa, Mr. Yu Kudo and Mr. Masaru Nishimira of Chiba Institute of Technology. We appreciate their support. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.; 10th International Conference on Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts, MOLTEN 2016 ; Conference date: 22-05-2016 Through 25-05-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-48769-4_134",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319486253",
series = "Advances in Molten Slags, Fluxes, and Salts: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts 2016",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing AG",
pages = "1245--1252",
editor = "Reddy, {Ramana G.} and Pinakin Chaubal and Pistorius, {P. Chris} and Uday Pal",
booktitle = "Advances in Molten Slags, Fluxes, and Salts",
address = "Switzerland",
}