Abstract:For studying the carbon thermal reduction rules of titanium in hot metal and providing a theoretical basis for the blast furnace (BF) hearth protection, the distribution behavior of titanium between low-titanium slag system of CaO-SiO₂- MgO-Al₂O₃-TiO₂ and hot metal was studied using analytical reagents in a temperature range from 1350 °C to 1600 °C. Through high temperature melting, rapid quenching, chemical analysis and thermodynamic model calculating, the results showed that the increase of reaction temperature, which improved the titanium distribution L(Ti) and lowered the system activity coefficient γ_sys, leads to the rise of equilibrium constant. Combined with Wagner and congregated electron phase models, the data obtained in distribution experiments were used to fit out the Gibbs free energy formula of titanium carbothermic reduction. Finally, the relations between the contents of Si and Ti in hot metal and the titanium load to reach the minimum w(Ti) for the formation of TiC were given.

Key words: titanium; distribution behavior; activity coefficient model; hearth protection; titanium load