Effect of Al content on non-metallic inclusions in heat-resistant steel containing rare earth element
WANG Ye-guang1,2, LIU Cheng-jun1,2, QIU Ji-yu1,2
1. Key Laboratory for Ecological Metallurgy of Multimetallic Ores (Ministry of Education), Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, Liaoning, China; 2. School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, Liaoning, China
Abstract:As a common alloying element in high-quality steel, rare earth is widely used to improve the properties of steel. However, due to the strong affinity between rare earth and impurity elements such as oxygen and sulfur in steel, the formation of inclusions with high melting point and large size after rare earth addition are seriously harmful to casting process and product quality. In order to investigate the effect of different Al contents on the type and size distribution of non-metallic inclusions in heat resistant steel containing rare earth, high temperature experiments were designed and carried out according to calculation by optimized thermodynamic model. The results of calculation show that increase of Al content can inhibit the precipitation of Ce2O3 inclusions, but promote the precipitation of CeAlO3 and Ce2O2S inclusions in steel. The changes of Ce, Al, O and S in molten steel were calculated, and thereby obtaining the critical thermodynamic conditions of inclusion transformation. When w([Al]) was 0.025%-0.065%, and the w([Al])/w([Ce]) value was 270, Ce2O3 transformed into CeAlO3. Ce2O3 converted to Ce2O2S with Al content ranging from 0.065% to 0.17% and w([S])/w([O]) value up to 10. The experiment results show that inclusions variation trend is Ce2O3→Ce2O3+CeAlO3→CeAlO3+Ce2O2S with the increase of mass percent of Al from 0 to 0.3% under a certain Ce amount in different test steels, and the average particle size of inclusions reduces from 4.69 μm to 2.73 μm accordingly. Based on the statistical results of relationship between inclusion type and size distribution, it is found that the formation of Ce2O2S with small size is one of the main cause for decrease of inclusions size. Therefore, increase of Al contents in rare earth heat-resistant steel appropriately can effectively refine the size of inclusions in steel by modifying the inclusion types, which is expected to improve the nozzle clogging problem and the product quality.
王野光, 刘承军, 邱吉雨. 铝对稀土耐热钢中非金属夹杂物的影响[J]. 钢铁, 2022, 57(4): 52-57.
WANG Ye-guang, LIU Cheng-jun, QIU Ji-yu. Effect of Al content on non-metallic inclusions in heat-resistant steel containing rare earth element[J]. Iron and Steel, 2022, 57(4): 52-57.
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