Abstract
Iron and Fe–Si alloys (1, 2, 3 and 5 wt.% Si) were reacted at 680 °C with a gas mixture of 68% CO, 26% H 2 and 6% H 2O ( a C = 2.9, p O 2 = 2 × 10 −23 atm). Alloy reaction products consisted of internally precipitated SiO 2, an external scale of Fe 3C + SiO 2 and surface coke deposits containing cementite and silica particles. Coking and metal dusting rates both increased with alloy silicon level. This is proposed to be related to an increase in graphite nucleation sites at Fe 3C/SiO 2 phase boundaries, and the volume expansion accompanying graphite precipitation.
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