THERMODYNAMIC MODELING OF OXIDE MELTS OF CaO - Al2O3 - SiO2 SYSTEMS

Abstract

Oxide melts of the CaO – Al2O3 – SiO2 system are the basis of metallurgical slags. Therefore, the thermodynamic properties of this system have been repeatedly studied experimentally, and attempts have been made to describe them theoretically. Thermodynamic modeling of the state diagrams of the CaO – Al2O3, CaO – SiO2, Al2O3 – SiO2 binary systems, as well as the CaO – Al2O3 – SiO2 ternary system was performed. In the course of the work, expressions for the thermodynamic description of the activities of the components of the oxide melt of this system are derived. For the calculation, a generalized theory of regular ionic solutions was used. The energy parameters of the theory are determined, depending on the temperature and composition of the solution, using experimental data on the heat and melting point of oxides of calcium, aluminum and silicon. According to the results of the simulation, the coordinates of the points of nonvariant transformations in the phase diagrams of the binary and ternary systems under study are determined. The obtained results on thermodynamic modeling of the coordinates of the liquidus lines of the phase diagrams of the CaO – Al2O3, CaO – SiO2, Al2O3 – SiO2 binary systems were compared with the literature data for the studied systems. The calculated diagrams are in good agreement with the experimental ones, which indicates the applicability of the chosen system for the description of such oxide melts. The modeling technique used in this work allowed to estimate the Gibbs energies of formation of silicates and calcium aluminum silicates to be 3Al2O3∙2SiO2, 3CaO∙SiO2, 2CaO∙SiO2, 3CaO∙2SiO2, CaO∙SiO2, CaO∙Al2O3∙2SiO2, 2CaO∙Al2O3∙SiO2 on the base of obtained aquations for of activities of the components and calculated parameters of the theory. The calculated diagrams will allow to determine the nature of the interaction between the components of the system, the conditions of formation, the composition and properties of the compounds formed, without isolating them from the system.