title: Local corrosion of magnesia-chrome refractories driven by Marangoni convection at the slag-metal interface.
abstract: The local corrosion of magnesia-chrome refractories containing MgO-Al(2)O(3) spinel has been investigated near the slag-metal interface by immersion tests. The local corrosion extent near the slag-metal interface was found to decrease with the increase of FeO, MgO, and Al(2)O(3) contents in the slag. The local corrosion depths in the diagonal direction on the cross sections of the square prism specimens were always 2 times those in the normal direction of the lateral faces, and the cross sections maintained their initial square shape during whole the corrosion duration. The local corrosion is reckoned to be driven by the Marangori convection, which accelerated the mass transfer of the components dissolved from the refractories.
authors.affiliation: Multi-Phase Reaction Laboratory, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China. yuanzhf@home.ipe.ac.cn
authors.forename: Zhang Fu
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Wen Lai
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Kusuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mukai