A kind of pureization smelting technology of superalloy returns
Technical field
The invention belongs to the vacuum metallurgy field, be specially a kind of pureization smelting technology of superalloy returns.
Background technology
The recovery rate of superalloy precision castings is generally 20% one 30%, the part that some is complex-shaped even have only 10%, be all existing with forms such as stub bar, running channel, rising head, scrapped parts and smear metals more than 70% of superalloy product, system is referred to as the superalloy returns.
The recycling of superalloy returns will produce remarkable economic efficiency, yet with the increase of returns adding proportion, nitrogen content obviously increases in the superalloy, causes dendritic structure thick, and loose tendency is the major cause that alloy mechanical property changes obviously.With virgin material alloy phase ratio, high-temperature and durable and the creep life of returning alloy obviously descend, its major cause is that strain rate is obviously accelerated, because it is higher to return in the alloy N content, cause existing more microporosity, thereby accelerated the increase of strain rate, have shown the creep rupture life of superalloy and creep life downtrending with the returns ratio.
China is less to the research of superalloy returns, and a large amount of high temperature platform gold returns also are not fully used, and it is more serious that returns overstock situation.Chinese invention patent application (publication number CN1786228A) discloses a kind of hafnium containing nickel base casting superalloy K488 revert alloy vacuum melting technique, adopt the method purification revert alloy that adds rare earth element, through Returning smelting repeatedly, wherein N content is lower than 100ppm.Its main weak point is: this superalloy returns smelting process adopts rare earth as the final deoxygenation element, because the rare earth element deoxidizing capacity is limited, deoxidation fully, and denitrification effect and surface active element oxygen level are closely related, only could carry out denitrogenation to greatest extent after fully carrying out deoxidation.Therefore, the melting again that the returns remelting way of employing Chinese invention patent application (publication number CN1786228A) is carried out the superalloy returns can not make nitrogen be reduced to below the 10PPm, and the superalloy returns remelting way of this invention description is used after can only arranging in pairs or groups with virgin material.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of pureization smelting technology of superalloy returns, realized the super low loading of superalloy returns O, N after pureization smelting.
Technical scheme of the present invention is:
A kind of pureization smelting technology of superalloy returns is used traditional MgO crucible, carries out pureization smelting, and the O of alloy, N content are reduced to below the 10ppm; Pureization smelting concrete steps are as follows:
(1) fusing early stage: 0.01~0.015% the C that accounts for the returns weight ratio is added crucible bottom in fusing early stage, and vacuumize until vacuum tightness below 3Pa, send, require small power to send this moment, power is 10~30 kilowatts, capacity on vacuum induction furnace is decided, and makes the sufficient exhaust of returns and makes C and O fully reacts the carrying out that is beneficial to the carbon deoxidation; After returns redden fully, change melting period over to, this moment, the high-power electricity that send finished until fusing;
(2) refining period: vacuumize until vacuum tightness below 1Pa, 1530 ℃ ± 10 ℃ of temperature, refining time is 10~20 minutes, decides on the capacity of vacuum induction furnace;
(3) first pool period: enter the cold of refining later stage after finishing refining period and put, this moment, vacuum pump worked on, and stopped to send electricity, made the alloy cooling until solidifying;
(4) the final deoxygenation phase: after treating that alloy solidifies fully, send electricity to make the alloy refuse, add pure metal calcium and carry out final deoxygenation;
(5) second pool period: alloy has a power failure through behind the final deoxygenation, make alloy in the high vacuum state natural coagulation, the oxygen, nitrogen that makes the deoxidation products, nitride and the free state that are dissolved in the alloy along with decrease of temperature under the situation that solubleness reduces, separate out and drain;
(6) cast of alloy: after treating that metal solidifies fully, send electricity that alloy is melted fully, thermometric to 1380 ℃ ± 10 ℃, charged cast.
The described final deoxygenation phase is just to have changed the pure metal calcium that clear moment adding has been divided into fine particle at alloy, being divided into several times adds, and each back raising power that adds stirs, the add-on of pure metal calcium accounts for 0.05~0.2% of returns weight percent, its granularity is 5~10mm, and adding indegree is 3~6 times.
Pureization of the present invention smelting technology can simply be described as the two cold smelting technologyes of putting of two deoxidations, specifically comprises: melt early stage, melting period, refining period, casting cycle.Early stage a spot of C is added in the crucible in fusing, and vacuumize until vacuum tightness below 3Pa, send, require small power to send electricity (is that example power is generally about 30 kilowatts with 50 kilograms of stoves) after returns redden fully this moment, changes over to can high-powerly send electricity to finish until fusing this moment melting period.It is can make the sufficient exhaust of returns and make C and O fully reacts the carrying out that is beneficial to the carbon deoxidation that small power is sent the purpose of electricity.Selecting 1530 ℃ ± 10 ℃ refining period for use, consider that from metallurgical power and thermodynamics refining time is unsuitable long, is that example was advisable in 10~13 minutes with 50 kilograms of stoves.Enter the cold of refining later stage after finishing refining period and put, this moment, vacuum pump worked on, and stopped to send electricity, made the alloy cooling until solidifying.After treating that alloy solidifies fully, send electricity to make the alloy refuse, just changed the pure metal calcium that clear moment adding has been divided into fine particle at alloy, being divided into several times adds, and each back raising power that adds stirs, and after stand-by calcium metal deoxidation finishes, changes pool period next time over to.After treating that metal solidifies fully, send electricity that alloy is melted fully, thermometric to 1380 ℃ ± 10 ℃, cast.All the time send electricity in the casting process, but power is unsuitable too high.Adopt this pureization smelting technology, the O of alloy, N content are reduced to below the 10ppm.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows:
1, the present invention uses traditional MgO crucible, employing is different from the smelting process of general smelting superalloy and carries out pureization smelting, adopt pureization of the present invention smelting technology vacuum induction to smelt the superalloy returns, the O of superalloy returns, N content are reduced to below the 10ppm.
2, the present invention is applicable to that repeatedly to use back, O, N content higher, needs the needs of pureization of the nickel base superalloy smelting of reduction O, N content.
3, adopt the present invention to smelt the superalloy that obtains behind the superalloy returns, it can reach the level of virgin material fully.
4, the present invention purifies cast superalloy alloy returns by the smelting ultra-pure technology, utilize high pure, the high quality of superalloy returns such as K417 preparation, high performance superalloy mother alloy, to improve the utilization ratio, particularly strategic resource nickel and cobalt of resource.High-purity mother alloy technology of preparing that the present invention develops, the manufacturing that also can be aircraft engine provides high-quality superalloy mother alloy.
5, (publication number CN1786228A) compares with the Chinese invention patent application, characteristics of the present invention are to utilize 100% superalloy returns, after pureization smelting, O, N content reaches the virgin material level, and can be reduced to below the 10PPm, pureization smelting technology adopt twice freezing, for the first time freezing is when the concise phase finishes, purpose is denitrogenation, after the freezing remelting for the first time, adopt and take off element calcium by force as reductor, and the adding of calcium is to be divided into several times to add, and is all carrying out high-power (60~80 kilowatts) and stirred 30 seconds~1 minute after each the adding, makes the deoxidation products eliminating of fully floating, arrive the purpose of abundant deoxidation, for the second time freezing also is to utilize the consecutive solidification of alloy and get rid of the purpose that inclusion reaches degree of depth deoxidation denitrogenation.And Chinese invention patent application (publication number CN1786228A) reductor is selected for use is rare earth, and its twice freezing be for the alloying smelting of virgin material, the purpose of its returns smelting technology is and virgin material collocation remelting, is not to be that the level that reaches virgin material after 100% pureization of the superalloy returns smelting comes into operation again.
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Fig. 1 is the smelting technology curve of superalloy returns of the present invention.
Embodiment
Refractory materials as vacuum metallurgy has a variety of, the CaO of called optical imaging, spinels refractory materials have lower vapour pressure, high basicity and good thermodynamic stability, but because large-scale crucible pulverizing problem can't thoroughly solve always, therefore a large amount of now large-scale vacuum inductive crucible of using still are magnesia crucibles.Therefore, it is the experiment crucible that the present invention selects magnesia crucible for use, cooperates correct pureization smelting technology, has obtained effect preferably, and returns O, N content after pureization smelting all will hang down below the 10ppm.
Below by embodiment and accompanying drawing in detail the present invention is described in detail.
Embodiment
As shown in Figure 1, the technical process of melting superalloy returns of the present invention is: charging → fusing early stage → melting period → refining period → the first pool period → final deoxygenation phase → the second pool period → cast, concrete operations are as follows:
(1) adding of returns: earlier crucible is cleaned out, 0.015% the deposit carbon that adds the returns weight ratio in crucible bottom, then the returns blade that removes ceramic core, in the adding crucible of nature, note not wanting artificial sign indicating number material, avoid because the bridge formation harm that artificial sign indicating number strip comes.
(2) fusing of alloy is in earlier stage: reinforced finishing, vacuumize, and small power was sent electricity (is that example power is generally about 30 kilowatts with 50 kilograms of stoves) when vacuum tightness to 3 handkerchief was following, reddened fully until the returns blade, slowly increased power again and sent.It is for the degassing (gas that adsorbs in the returns blade) fully that small power is sent electricity, and is implemented in good carbon deoxidation of melting period.(time of fusing experience in early stage decides on the capacity of vacuum induction furnace, is example with 50 kilograms of vacuum induction furnaces, is generally about 15 minutes)
(3) melting period: the returns in the crucible redden fully, and when molten steel appears in crucible bottom, strengthen under the situation of not advancing to spatter and send electric power, be generally 30~50 kilowatts, keep higher vacuum state simultaneously, in 3Pa, help fully carrying out of carbon deoxidation like this.
(4) refining period of alloy: after alloy melts fully, intensification makes the temperature of alloy liquid rise to 1530 ℃ and changes refining period over to, the vacuum tightness in refining period must be below 1Pa (promptly than fusing higher vacuum tightness in early stage), refining time was generally 15 minutes less than 500 kilograms vacuum induction furnace, and greater than 500 kilograms vacuum induction furnace can be suitable the prolongation refining time.Keeping high vacuum refining period is for the carbon deoxidation creates good conditions, and can make the removal of floating fully of oxide compound, nitride inclusion in the returns.Refining time should not longly be because there is a large amount of active elements to produce the content that is mingled with in the replacement(metathesis)reaction increase molten steel as, titanium, tantalum like long-time meeting and the magnesium oxide in the crucible of contacting with crucible in returns.
(5) first pool period: alloy has a power failure through after refining period, make alloy in the high vacuum state natural coagulation, purpose be the oxygen that makes the oxide compound, nitride and the free state that are dissolved in the alloy, nitrogen along with decrease of temperature under the situation that solubleness reduces, separate out and drain, the time of first pool period was generally behind the complete conjunctiva of the alloy in the crucible freezing again 15~30 minutes.
(6) the final deoxygenation phase: after for the first time freezing, send electricity to make alloy melting, the firm fusing fully of alloy is divided in the several times adding molten steel being processed into very little calcium metal in advance immediately, and after each the adding, all to improve power and stir molten steel the deoxidation products come-up is removed, the add-on of pure metal calcium generally accounts for returns weight percent 0.05~0.2%, its granularity is 5~10mm, adds indegree and is generally 3~6 times for good.
(7) second pool period: alloy has a power failure through behind the final deoxygenation, make alloy in the high vacuum state natural coagulation, purpose be the oxygen that makes the deoxidation products, nitride and the free state that are dissolved in the alloy, nitrogen along with decrease of temperature under the situation that solubleness reduces, separate out and drain, the time of second pool period was generally behind the complete conjunctiva of the alloy in the crucible freezing again 15~30 minutes.
(8) cast of alloy: through after for the second time freezing, charged cast when sending temperature to 1380 that electricity adjusts molten steel ℃.All the time send electricity in the casting process, but power is unsuitable too high, is generally 10~20 kilowatts.
Adopt the present invention to smelt cast superalloy returns K417, blades such as DZ125, DZ17G, capacity the results are shown in Table 1 below 10 kilograms to 200 kilograms all near 10ppm of O, N content.
O, N content experimental data that table 1. adopts pureization of superalloy returns smelting technology to handle
Table 2 adopts the high temperature tensile properties experimental data of the K417 superalloy returns of pureization smelting technology processing
Illustrate: once be meant the returns mother alloy one time, it is by virgin material K417 mother alloy mo(u)lded piece, it pours into a mould remaining rising head and the scrapped parts alloy pig that forms of melting system again, the secondary returns are poured into a mould part again with returns exactly, the mother alloy that remaining rising head running channel is smelted into again, by that analogy, refine the returns mother alloy the 4th time; Pureization smelting is meant, the mother alloy that forms with the 4th superalloy returns of pureization of returns smelting technology smelting.
Embodiment result shows, pureization of the present invention smelting technology can be smelted the superalloy returns in batches, realized the target of superalloy returns super low loadings of O, N after pureization smelting, and returns high warm nature index after pureization metallurgy has also reached the virgin material level, satisfies technical requirement fully.