Unit 3 - Slag Fluxing and Ladle Life

Do you see two slags?

If you see two slags in your ladle – one thick or solid and one thin or runny – then we need to talk about slag fluxing and ladle life. Even if you hardly ever see two slags, we still need to talk because it only takes one rogue heat on a ladle refractory campaign to be The Destroyer of your slag line brick. This issue discusses how process variables such as slag carryover, melt oxygen level, and the dreaded FeO effect slag chemistry, slag fluxing, and ladle life.