Revolution and control of Fe-Al-Ti-O complex oxide inclusions in ultralow-carbon steel during refining process
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摘要: 超低碳鋼是一種重要的汽車用鋼材料, 鋼中通常添加鈦元素, 使其形成析出物, 提高鋼材的深沖性.然而鈦元素作為一種脫氧能力較強的元素, 進入鋼液中通常首先形成氧化物.為了減少含鈦氧化物夾雜的生成, 基于"轉爐-RH-連鑄"的超低碳鋼生產流程, 對RH精煉過程進行系統取樣, 分析了鋁脫氧劑加入后及合金化元素鈦加入后的氧、氮氣體含量變化及夾雜物特征變化, 并使用FactSage熱力學計算軟件對Fe-Al-Ti-O夾雜物穩定相圖進行計算.研究結果顯示, 含鈦類氧化物夾雜通常以Al2O3類夾雜物作為形核質點, 對其形成包裹狀夾雜物.若避免含Ti夾雜物的生成, 當鋼中Ti質量分數為0.1%時, 鋼中溶解Al質量分數應在0.01%以上.對含鈦氧化物的生成及長大流程進行研究, 通過對Al2O3夾雜物及Ti2O3夾雜物粗化率的計算及附著功的比較可知, Ti2O3夾雜物在1600℃時的熟化生長速率較Al2O3較大且Ti2O3夾雜物與Al2O3夾雜物相比不容易相互碰撞融合并從鋼液中去除.若提高精煉過程中的氧化物夾雜物去除率, 應嚴格控制含鈦氧化物類夾雜物的生成.Abstract: Ultralow-carbon steel is an important material for automobile production. Titanium is usually added in this steel grade to form a precipitant and improve the deep drawing property of the steel. However, due to the deoxidation capacity of Ti, Ti addition will directly generate Ti-bearing oxide inclusions instead of the precipitant. To reduce the amount of Ti-bearing oxide inclusions, samples were collected during the RH refining based on the basic oxygen furnace-Ruhrstahl-Heraeus reactor-continuous casting (BOF-RH-CC) ultralow-carbon steel production process, and the oxygen content and inclusion characterization after Al addition and Ti addition were analyzed. The thermodynamics calculation software FactSage was adopted to calculate the Fe-Al-Ti-O inclusion stability phase diagram. The results show that the Al2O3 inclusion usually acts as the nucleation point of the Ti-bearing oxide inclusion, which wraps the Al2O3 inclusion to form the Al-Ti-O complex inclusion. To avoid the generation of the Ti-bearing oxide inclusions, the mass fraction of dissolved Al in the molten steel should be greater than 0.01% when the Ti mass fraction is 0.1%. Furthermore, the generation and growth behavior of the Ti-bearing oxide inclusion were also studied. Based on the calculation of the growth rate and the comparison of the adhesion work of the Al2O3 inclusion and the Ti2O3 inclusion, it is concluded that the growth rate of Ti2O3 inclusion is greater than that of Al2O3 inclusion, and it is more difficult for Ti2O3 inclusions to collide with each other and to be removed at 1600℃. Therefore, the generation of Ti-bearing oxide inclusions should be strictly controlled to improve the removal rate of oxide inclusions in ultralow-carbon steels.
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Key words:
- ultralow-carbon steel /
- RH refining /
- Al2O3 inclusion /
- Ti2O3 inclusion
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表 1 目標超低碳鋼主要成分(質量分數)
Table 1. Main composition of the target steel ?
% C Si Mn S P Al Ti Nb 0. 002 0. 010 0. 100 0. 007 0. 015 0. 020 0. 020 0. 004 表 2 Al2O3及Ti2O3夾雜物的相關表面性質參數及V0
Table 2. Relative surface parameters and V0of Al2O3and Ti2O3inclu-sions
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