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In the process of electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking, usually the lime powder is sprayed into the molten pool with air as carrier gas to reduce costs. However, because of the nitrogen content requirements in the steel, oxygen or oxygen to mix carbon dioxide was substituted as the carrier gas for the lime powder injection. Lime injection with a burner mode has been reported to promote 100 pct lime injection in the EAF and faster dissolution of lime, but few studies have been made on the effect of the carrier gas on lime powder injection. In this study, four different kinds of carrier gas were used to investigate the influence of carrier gas on lime powder injection in EAF steelmaking. In this study, a CFD model based on the discrete particle model and eddy-dissipation concept model was carried out to investigate the influence of carrier gas species on the CaO-gas mixed injection in EAF steelmaking. The interaction between carrier gas and particles was analyzed, and the influences of carrier gas on the shrouding CH4 were also analyzed. Results show that the decrease of CO2 content in the main carrier gas provides better efficiency of the shrouding combustion and more uniform particle distribution.
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Wu, X., Zhu, R., Wei, G. et al. Influence of the Carrier Gas Species on CaO-Gas Mixed Injection in the EAF Steelmaking Process. Metall Mater Trans B 50, 2389–2402 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-019-01629-6
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