DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE TEMPERATURE COMPOSITION STABILITY OF REFRACTORY COMPOUNDS.
Abstract
The object of this investigation was the prediction of high temperature phase equilibria in binary systems through the analystical treatment of the temperature-composition stability of thermodynamic phase models. Interstitial compound phases were treated as special cases of the Schottky-Wagner model of defect solids in which departure from stoichiometr are accounted for by lattice vacancies. Disorder solution phases, both liquid and solid were treated by the regular solution model. The resulting analysis provides explicit equations from which equilibrium phase limits, vapor pressures and Langmuir vaporization rates can be calculated once the characteristic parameters introduced by the models are specified. Eutenctice and peritectic melting points are predictable from the crossing of calculated phase limit curves. The problem of the vaporization kinetics and the time varying composition dependence of compound and solution phases under Langmuir vaporization conditions is discussed and equations developed for calculating the instantaneous composition, weight and vaporization rate of a Langmuir specimen. The analytical properties of ternary compound and solution phases is formulated as an extension of the binary models. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0487194
Entities
People
- Harold Bernstein