Investigating a high vanadium petroleum coke ash fusibility and its modification

Petroleum coke (petcoke), especially high vanadium (V) petcoke, has been produced increasingly because of the growing consumption of petroleum oil. Petcoke ash fusibility is closely related to ash slagging, which has an important impact on the clean and efficient utilization of petcoke. This study investigates a high V petcoke ash fusibility and its modification by coal blending and flux addition at reducing atmosphere. X-ray diffraction (XRD)...