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BARATI, M., CHEN, E., and COLEY, K. A comparison of the kinetics of the CO-CO2 reaction with steelmaking and copper making slags. VII International Conference on Molten Slags Fluxes and Salts, The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2004. A comparison of the kinetics of the CO-CO2 reaction with steelmaking and copper making slags M. BARATI, E. CHEN, and K. COLEY McMaster University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada The reaction between carbon and slags is of significant importance in direct smelting of iron ores, EAF slag foaming and copper slag cleaning processes. This reaction is known to occur via gaseous intermediates and it is important to have fundamental data to understand the relative importance of each reaction step. In this study, the rate of CO2 dissociation on different slag surfaces is measured using an isotope exchange technique. It was found that increasing iron oxide content up to 30 wt per cent does not have a significant effect on the rate constant while increasing from this limit, increases the rate constant dramatically. Activation energy of CO2 dissociation on slags of unit basicity and different iron oxide contents is in the range of 180±40 kJ/mol. It is found that rate constant dependence on oxygen potential in the slag phase is increasing with iron oxide concentration. In the case of copper making slags, the influence of copper oxide is found to increase the magnitude of apparent rate constant, while decreasing the activation energy considerably. Key words: Gas-slag reaction, CO2 dissociation, copper slag, kinetics, isotope exchange Introduction Numerous kinetics studies have been carried out on the overall reaction rate as well as individual reaction steps. The reaction of iron oxide in the liquid state with solid Inconsistencies have been observed among the results of carbon or carbon dissolved in iron has had increasing different investigations for the values of reaction rate,