MODELLING THE PROCESS OF OXIDISING IMPURITIES IN A METAL BATH USING COHERENT NOZZLES

Abstract

The main task of the oxygen-converter process is to produce a liquid metal semi-product with specified properties. It is directly related to the optimization of the blowing mode and devices responsible for the process and technical and economic parameters of melting. The effectiveness of the organization of the process of introducing oxygen into the melt, and, accordingly, assimilation by the metal bath basically depends on the design of the lance nozzles. In electrometallurgy, coherent nozzles are used to improve bath mixing performance and activate processes (a central nozzle for supplying oxygen and a peripheral one surrounding it for supplying gas as a fuel that forms an enveloping flame). Therefore, the authors conducted a study of the influence of coherent top nozzles on the oxidation of impurities in the metal bath under the conditions of the use for the oxygen-converter process (with oxygen supplied to both parts of the nozzle). A high-temperature simulation of the oxidation process of Si from hot metal was carried out by using a Cu-Zn melt (1%) when comparing blowing through a nozzle of a coherent type with a peripheral part of 75% and a conventional nozzle of the equivalent diameter.