Synthesis and characterization of glass-ceramics prepared from high-carbon ferrochromium slag

Abstract

Glass-ceramics have been successfully prepared from high-carbon ferrochromium slag (HCFS) and waste glass (WG), and the microstructural characterization and mechanical properties of the glass-ceramics were subsequently investigated. The development of HCFS-based glass-ceramics involves the nucleation and crystallization stages from the parent glass. With the increase in mass ratio of HCFS and WG (R(H/W)) from 0.60 to 1.67, the number of bridging oxygens of Si in the parent glass is reduced, as shown via Raman spectroscopy. Thus, their degree of polymerization decreases with it, and the temperature of nucleation and crystallization increase, which is consistent with the DSC results. The SEM images and EDS results indicate that the increasing value of R(H/W) decreases the crystal grain size and consequently increases the microhardness of the glass-ceramics. But the porosity simultaneously increases, which makes the bending strength increase at first and subsequently decrease. And the optimum properties of HCFS-based glass-ceramic samples in the present work are obtained when R(H/W) reaches 1.29, that is, a bending strength of 104 MPa and a microhardness of 9860 MPa.