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http://dx.doi.org/10.6111/JKCGCT.2017.27.2.099

Corrosion of castable refractory in H2O/N2/H2S mixed gas at 900℃  

Shin, Min (Department of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Dankook University)
Yoon, Jong-Won (Department of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Dankook University)
Kim, Chang-Sam (Center for Energy Convergence, Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Abstract
Refractories used in low-rank coal gasification reactors are usually exposed in a highly corrosive $H_2S$ gas at less than $1000^{\circ}C$, and their mechanical properties such as erosion resistance and fracture strength decline with the exposure time. However, the cause of the degradation of the mechanical properties has little reported yet. In this paper, two kinds of castable refractories with different refractoriness had been exposed in a $H_2O/N_2/H_2S$ mixed gas with high $H_2S$ content for 100 hours at $900^{\circ}C$, and the changes of microstructure, crystalline phases and erosion resistance were compared before and after the corrosion test. The weight of the refractories decreases due to the elution of silica in the specimens after the corrosion test. The capillary porosities of the samples are reduced, but the erosion resistance of the samples is fatally weakened after the corrosion test. There also are changes in constituent phases; dmitryivanovite ($CaAl_2O_4$) and amorphous silica ($SiO_2$) disappear, and gypsum ($CaSO_4{\cdot}2H_2OS$) and kaolinite ($Al_2Si_2O_5(OH)_4$) newly appear after the corrosion test. It is obvious that the phase change from dmitryivanovite that works as a binding agent in the castable refractory to gypsum is the main reason of the degradation of the erosion resistance, because the mechanical properties of gypsum are much poorer than those of dmitryivanovite.
Keywords
Coal gasification; Refractory; $H_2S$; Corrosion; Erosion resistance;
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