What is Slag?
What is Slag?
There are two types of slag produced at the Blue Scope Steel Port Kembla Site; Blast Furnace Slag and Steel Making slag.
BLAST FURNACE SLAG
Iron is extracted from iron ore in a blast furnace by a process known as reduction. The raw materials - iron ore, coke and fluxes - are fed into the top of the furnace. Air, which is heated to about 1200癈, is blown into the furnace through nozzles called tuyeres (pron: twee-yers) that are spaced around the lower section of the furnace. The air causes the coke to burn, producing carbon monoxide, which creates the chemical reaction. The iron ore (iron oxide) is reduced to molten iron and slag.
Molten iron runs into torpedo ladles that are on rail tracks. Blast Furnace Slag is a co-product of the iron making process. It is removed from the blast furnace and allowed to cool. ASMS then further process and market the blast furnace slag into useful products for the construction industry such as concrete aggregates, road base products.
Generally the products produced from this type of slag are known as Air Cooled Blast Furnace Slag and their product codes commence with ABF.
Blast Furnace Slag can be processed in another manner known as Granulation. This process introduces the molten slag to water and creates a granulated product that is granular and typically minus 6mm. Typically this product is marketed to the cement industry by ASMS as a cementitious material. Granulated blast furnace slag has product codes commencing with GBF.
PRODUCTION OF BOS SLAG
The BOS (Basic Oxygen Steel Making) process is one, which utilises the molten iron from the blast furnace with the addition of scrap steel and fluxes. These fluxes (burnt lime or dolomite) are fed into a vessel and a lance that injects oxygen creates a reaction between the molten iron, fluxes and scrap to create steel and steel slag. The Steel is tapped from the vessel into a steel ladle and the steel slag is poured into a slag pot.
This slag pot is then handled by our specialised equipment and poured into pits for cooling. The steel furnace slag is then removed from the pits. ASMS processes and markets steel furnace slag into asphalt aggregates, road bases, fill materials and filter materials.
Generally the products produced from this type of slag are known as Steel Furnace Slag and their product codes commence with SFS.
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Weight : 10~85 t
Material: DIN 17182 GS-16Mn5 1.1131
Appro.Net Wt.: 86,000 lbs
Product application: slag pot in steel works
Customizable or not : Yes
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