Mechanism of Slag Composition Change During Electroslag Remelting Process Original Research Article

The mass loss rate of CaF2-CaO-Al203-Si02-MgO slag system originated from ANF-6 was studied with CaF2, CaO, A12O3, SiO2 or MgO content as variables. The method of quadratic regression orthogonal design was used for the design and analysis of the experiment. The experimental results indicated that mass loss rate of slag can be increased by 6% with CaF2 changing from 50% to 65%. Mass loss increases with SiO2, A12O3 and MgO adding and decreases with CaO content increasing. Because of the reaction between oxide and fluoride in the slag pool, apparent mass loss of CaF2-Al2O3-CaO-SiO2-MgO slag system appears at melting point. This will cause obvious composition change of electroslag. In addition, the segregation occurs in the slag skin forming process. This is another reason causing the composition change of electroslag.