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An X-ray Diffraction Method for the Determination of Temperatures in Coke Reactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Jack L. Johnson  and
Seymour Katz
Jack L. Johnson
Affiliation:
Analytical Chemistry and Metallurgy Departments General Motors Research Laboratories GM Technical Center Warren, MI 48090
Seymour Katz
Affiliation:
Analytical Chemistry and Metallurgy Departments General Motors Research Laboratories GM Technical Center Warren, MI 48090
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Information about the conditions and reactions in a foundry cupola is essential to understand the thermochemistry of a cupola and thus improve its efficiency. A potential source of such information is coke taken from inside an operating cupola. In the region of the cupola that extends from the melt zone to the taphole, coke is directly involved in important chemical processes such as combustion, gasification, slag formation, iron sulfurization, carbon pickup, and oxide reduction. Coke is also suspected of being involved in the transport of silicon to the liquid iron. Each of these processes produces characteristic physical and/or chemical changes in the coke, making it possible to extract information about the processes from an examination of coke pieces taken from within an operating cupola. A program to study such coke samples is in progress. To effectively interpret these data it is necessary to know the temperature history of the coke being examined, especially the maximum temperature attained by the coke piece in the cupola.

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X. XRD Applications
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 28: Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1984 , 1984 , pp. 383 - 388
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1984

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