Refractory materials for side walls of ordinary power electric furnaces
MgO-C refractory bricks are usually used to build the side walls of electric furnaces without water-cooling walls. The hot spots and slag lines have the most severe service conditions. They are not only severely corroded and eroded by molten steel and slag, as well as severely mechanically impacted when scrap is added, but are also subject to thermal radiation from the arc. Therefore, these parts are constructed with MgO-C bricks with excellent performance. For the side walls of electric furnaces with water-cooled walls, due to the use of water-cooling technology, the heat load is increased and the use conditions are more stringent. Therefore, MgO-C bricks with good slag resistance, thermal shock stability and high thermal conductivity should be selected. Their carbon content is 10%~20%.
Refractory materials for side walls of ultra-high power electric furnaces
The side walls of ultra-high power electric furnaces (UHP furnaces) are mostly built with MgO-C refractory bricks, and the hot spots and slag line areas are built with MgO-C bricks with excellent performance (such as full carbon matrix MgO-C bricks). Significantly improve its service life.
Although the furnace wall load has been reduced due to improvements in electric furnace operating methods, it is still difficult for refractory materials to extend the service life of hot spots when operating under UHP furnace smelting conditions. Therefore, water cooling technology has been developed and applied. For electric furnaces using EBT tapping, the water cooling area reaches 70%, thus greatly reducing the use of refractory materials. Modern water cooling technology requires MgO-C bricks with good thermal conductivity. Asphalt, resin-bonded magnesia refractory bricks and MgO-C bricks (carbon content 5%-25%) are used to build the side walls of the electric furnace. Under severe oxidation conditions, antioxidants are added.
For the hotspot areas most severely damaged by redox reactions, MgO-C bricks with large crystalline fused magnesite as raw material, carbon content greater than 20%, and full carbon matrix are used for construction.
MgO-C bricks for UHP electric furnaces are fired at high temperature and then impregnated with asphalt to produce so-called fired asphalt-impregnated MgO-C bricks. Compared with unimpregnated bricks, the residual carbon content of fired MgO-C bricks after asphalt impregnation and recarbonization increases by about 1%, the porosity decreases by 1%, and the high-temperature flexural strength and compressive strength are significantly improved. Therefore, it has high durability performance.
Magnesium refractory materials for electric furnace side walls
Electric furnace linings are divided into alkaline and acidic ones. The former uses alkaline refractory materials (such as magnesia and MgO-CaO refractory materials) as the furnace lining, while the latter uses silica refractory bricks, quartz sand, white mud, etc. to build the furnace lining.
