Abstract:Quantitative analysis of inert minerals (Metallic Fe, RO phase and Fe3O4) in steel slag and its separated products plays a crucial role in the separation process of steel slag. When steel slag was dissolved in dilute nitric acid solution to quantitate the Fe3O4 content, it was difficult to physically separate the interfering components of the amorphous phases and foreign refractory (FR) from the dissolved residue. Therefore, a new solution was proposed, which was to completely dissolve the amorphous phase in NaOH solution at 90℃ for 1 h to obtain the dissolved residue S12 without the amorphous phase. The two dissolution methods with dilute HCl solution were to dissolve Fe3O4 from S12 to remove it, and this mineral selective dissolution method was used to test Fe3O4 and FR content. Another method was to quantitate the Fe element in S12 and calculated the content of Fe3O4 according to the stoichiometric factor. When the method of EDTA-TEA (Triethanolamine) -DEA(Diethylamine) complex solution was used to test the inert mineral content in steel slag, the residual rate of C2F in the dissolved residue was high, and it was difficult to separate FR from the dissolved residue. NaOH solution was used to adjust the pH of the EDTA-TEA complex solution to 12.9, so that C2F in the dissolved residue could be completely eliminated, and the FR in the dissolved residue was the same as that obtained by the dissolution method with nitric acid.