Voltammetry in a sulfur and iron-containing soda-lime-silica glass melt

Abstract

With the aid of square-wave voltammetry soda-lime-silica melts with sulfate fining were investigated in order to enable a quantitative in-situ determination of sulfur and iron. In this study, glass melts with low iron and high sulfate contents, typical for technical white glasses, were examined. The current-potential curves are predominantly influenced by sulfur and not solely controlled by diffusion. This behavior is supposedly caused by deposition of a sulfur layer on the surface of the working electrode. However, a simultaneous quantitative in-situ determination of iron and sulfur in melts of white glasses is possible.