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1 Effects of Carbonaceous Material’s Ash on Iron Carburization at Initial Reaction Stage Authors Names and Affiliations Ko-ichiro Ohno, Shohei Tsurumaru, Takayuki MAEDA, Kazuya KUNITOMO, Kyushu University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan; Alexander Babich, Dieter Senk, Heinrich Willhelm Gudenau, Intzestrasse 1, Department of Ferrous Metallurgy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen D-52072, Germany Contact data Ko-ichiro Ohno, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan, Phone +81928022938, Fax +81928022990, ohno@zaiko.kyushu-u.ac.jp Summary From strong world wide’s demand to decrease carbon dioxide emission from ironmaking process, a low carbon operation at blast furnace is being spotlighted. However, there is fear that this low carbon operation makes liquid permeability severe condition due to thinning of coke layer around cohesive zone. An iron carburization reaction is one of the most important reactions at the cohesive zone, because an improvement of this reaction has a possibility to make smooth permeability of liquid. Although it is well known that ash of carbonaceous material prevents the iron carburization reaction, there is not enough knowledge about this behavior. In this study, several kinds of carbonaceous material samples were prepared. They were crashed and sieved to 45-75 µm, and soaked into acid solutions for predefined time to control ash contents of them. It was found that the acid treatment decreased not only amount of the ash in the carbon samples but also Na concentration of the ash. The decreasing of Na concentration caused increasing of initial ash’s liquid formation temperature and increasing of molten ash’s surface tension. These changes of molten ash’s physical property could decrease molten ash’s wettability against iron and carbon. The carbonaceous material samples were put on a pure iron plate,