Carbothermal reduction of sillimanite in a transferred arc thermal plasma reactor
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2013
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Conversion o f sillimanite to value-added ceramic materials was investigated by transferred arc plasma processing
using nitrogen as the plasma gas. Plasma processing was carried out using sillimanite and sillimanite-cartKin
mixtures at different power levels. The products were characterized by XRD, SEM and FTIR techniques.
Thermodynamic analysis using hee energy minimization principle was used to predict the products formed and
also analyze the experimental results. The results o f these investigations showed that sillimanite can be converted
to mullite. or alumina and silicon carbide by careful choice o f the operating conditions and sillimanite-carbon ratio.