Blast-Furnace Slag Wetting

Improves Blast Furnace Permeability

Systematically tuning slag composition and its interaction with carbon materials optimizes slag wetting in the blast furnace, enhancing burden permeability and stable operation.

Jiang, Chunhe · Bo, Liu · Liang, Wang · Jiaqi, Li · Cheng, Xue · Zhang, Jianliang · Yang, Jianhong · Li, Kejiang

Steel Research International 2025

Advantages

Slag without FeOx shows poor wettability on graphite due to absence of strong chemical reactions

FeOx reduction enriches Fe at interface, enhancing slag-graphite wetting

Coke exhibits better wettability than graphite

Coke has more pores allowing slag to penetrate surface gaps within certain surface tension range