4. Thermochemical data relevant to blast furnace operation
Chemically speaking, blast furnace operation can be described mainly in terms of the Fe-O-H-C system.
4.1 Fe-O system
The Fe-O phase diagram indicates the existence of three stable oxides: Fe 2 O 3 (hematite), Fe 3 O 4 (magnetite) and FeO 1.056 (wustite) (figure 12 ). The degree of oxidation of oxides is generally expressed by the ratio between the number of oxygen and iron atoms O/Fe: this is 1.5 for hematite, 1.33 for magnetite...
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Fact Sage Integrated Data Base: thermodynamic database of mineral species; online tools for calculating reaction quantities, complex multiphase equilibria and phase diagrams;
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