CN117551928A - Process for improving strength of heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy - Google Patents

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CN117551928A
CN117551928A CN202311351299.0A CN202311351299A CN117551928A CN 117551928 A CN117551928 A CN 117551928A CN 202311351299 A CN202311351299 A CN 202311351299A CN 117551928 A CN117551928 A CN 117551928A
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Abstract

The invention discloses a process for improving the strength of a heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy, which comprises smelting, refining, rolling and heat treatment, wherein steelmaking adopts a molten iron pretreatment-converter-LF refining-VD vacuum degassing-billet continuous casting process production line, and the steel rail comprises the following components in percentage by weight: c+si+mn:2.40-2.60%; v:0.06-0.12%; n:0.006-0.008%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The invention aims to provide a process for improving the strength of a heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy, which promotes the refinement of the lamellar spacing of pearlite so as to improve the strength and hardness of the steel rail.

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Process for improving strength of heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of metallurgical materials, in particular to a process for improving the strength of a heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy.
Background
The heat-treated steel rail in China is mainly paved on a heavy-load railway line with a curve and a large total weight of the general cargo. In recent years, the requirement of heavy haul railways on the wear resistance of pearlite heat treatment steel rails is increasingly increased, the steel rails are required to have finer pearlite lamellar spacing, the average lamellar spacing of the existing U75V heat treatment steel rail is about 200nm, the lamellar spacing of the existing U75V heat treatment steel rail is required to be invented, the tensile strength of the existing U75V heat treatment steel rail is up to more than 1250MPa, the rail top surface hardness of the existing U75V heat treatment steel rail is up to more than 360HB, and meanwhile, the cost of the existing U75V heat treatment steel rail cannot be increased compared with the existing varieties, so that the existing U75V heat treatment steel rail has higher market competitiveness. Therefore, a method for remarkably improving the tensile strength and the hardness of the steel rail to improve the wear resistance of the steel rail is required to be invented on the premise of not improving the cost.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a process for improving the strength of a heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy, which promotes the refinement of the lamellar spacing of pearlite so as to improve the strength and hardness of the steel rail.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the invention relates to a process for improving the strength of a heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy, which comprises smelting, refining, rolling and heat treatment, wherein steelmaking adopts a molten iron pretreatment-converter-LF refining-VD vacuum degassing-billet continuous casting process production line, and is characterized in that: the steel rail comprises the following components in percentage by weight: c+si+mn:2.40-2.60%; v:0.06-0.12%; n:0.006-0.008%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities;
in the tapping station of the converter, the nitrogen content in the molten steel is controlled to be 0.002 percent, and the molten steel enters refining;
adding 1-2kg/t of 10% FeV alloy in an LF furnace in place, performing component fine adjustment and heating operation, sampling after 10min, when the V content is 0.06%, obviously improving the nitrogen content in molten steel, adding 1-2kg of 10% VN alloy, controlling the V content to be 0.09% and controlling the N content to be 0.008% when refining is out of place;
vacuum degassing by VD: the vacuum degree is less than or equal to 0.10KPa, the deep vacuum time is more than 15min, the soft blowing time is more than 15min, molten steel cannot be exposed during soft blowing, the nitrogen content in the vacuum process is reduced, and the control target is 0.007%;
heating and preserving heat of the steel billet, and rapidly cooling the steel rail rolled by BD1, BD2 and CCS to 440-460 ℃ on line after cooling to 800 ℃; and (3) returning the temperature of the steel rail, maintaining the temperature to 520-580 ℃ for isothermal transformation, and naturally cooling to obtain the hundred-meter fixed-length online heat-treated steel rail.
Further, the interlayer spacing is 120nm or less.
Further, the steel rail comprises the following components in percentage by weight: c0.79%, si0.66%, mn0.96%, P0.016%, S0.003%, V0.09%, al0.002%, H1.2X10% -4 %、O10×10 -4 %、N72×10 -4 The balance of Fe and impurities.
Further, the steel rail comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.80% of C, 0.72% of Si, 1.04% of Mn, 0.019% of P, 0.002% of S, 0.09% of V, 0.002% of Al and 1.6X10% of H -4 %、O12×10 -4 %、N76×10 -4 The balance of Fe and impurities.
Further, the steel rail pearlite lamellar spacing is 110nm, the tensile strength Rm:1265MPa, tread hardness: 369HB.
Further, the steel rail pearlite lamellar spacing is 106nm, the tensile strength Rm:1285MPa, tread hardness: 372HB.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial technical effects that:
the spacing between the pearlite lamellae of the steel rail is smaller than 120nm, the tensile strength Rm is larger than 1250MPa, the tread hardness is larger than 360HB, the service life of the steel rail is greatly prolonged, and the energy consumption production cost is reduced.
Detailed Description
A process for improving the strength of a heat-treated steel rail by a vanadium-nitrogen microalloy specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) Smelting in a converter;
(2) Refining a ladle;
(3) Vacuum degassing by VD;
(4) Continuous casting;
(5) Heating a steel billet;
(6) Rolling the steel rail;
(7) Heat treatment of the steel rail;
and (3) smelting in the converter in the step (1) by adopting single slag operation, wherein the final slag alkalinity is controlled according to 2.5. During smelting, the end point control target component C is more than or equal to 0.10%, P/% -is less than or equal to 0.010%, and the temperature in the tank is more than or equal to 1550 ℃;
and (2) refining the LF ladle, wherein 10% of FeV alloy 1-2kg/t and component fine adjustment and heating operation are added in the LF furnace in place, sampling is carried out after 10min, when the V content reaches 0.06%, the nitrogen content in molten steel is obviously improved by about 0.004%, 10% of VN alloy 1-2kg is added, the V content control target is 0.09% and the N content control target is 0.008% when refining is out of place.
And (3) vacuum degassing is carried out by VD, the vacuum degree is less than or equal to 0.10KPa, the deep vacuum time is more than or equal to 15min, the soft blowing time is more than 15min, molten steel cannot be exposed during soft blowing, the nitrogen content in the vacuum process is reduced, and the control target is 0.007%.
And performing continuous casting operation according to the existing production process after VD. Heating and rolling the steel billet according to the existing production process;
the steel rail in the step (7) is subjected to heat treatment, and the control parameters of the quenching process of the production heat-treated steel rail are shown in the following table.
Table 1 heat treated rail quench process
Steel grade Inlet temperature/°c Outlet temperature/°c Wind pressure value/KPa Roller speed/m/s
800 440-460 14-18 1.0-1.3
Example 1:
the selected production process comprises the steps of air cooling the steel rail rolled by BD1, BD2 and CCS to 800 ℃, rapidly cooling to 460 ℃ on line, wherein the time of on-line heat treatment is 110s; the steel rail is subjected to temperature returning and isothermal transformation, and then natural cooling is carried out to obtain the hundred-meter fixed-length online heat-treated steel rail, and the chemical components of the finished steel rail are as follows:
TABLE 2 chemical composition of rail%
Composition of the components C Si Mn P S V Al
0.79 0.66 0.96 0.016 0.003 0.09 0.002
TABLE 3 gas content (volume fraction). Times.10 -4
The interlayer spacing of the pearlite sheets of the steel rail is 110nm, and the tensile strength Rm is as follows: 1265MPa, tread hardness: 369HB.
Example 2:
chemical composition of finished steel
TABLE 4 chemical composition of rails%
Composition of the components C Si Mn P S V Al
0.80 0.72 1.04 0.019 0.002 0.09 0.002
TABLE 5 gas content (volume fraction). Times.10 -4
The interlayer spacing of the pearlite sheets of the steel rail is 106nm, and the tensile strength Rm is as follows: 1285MPa, tread hardness: 372HB.
The above embodiments are only illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and various modifications and improvements made by those skilled in the art to the technical solutions of the present invention should fall within the protection scope defined by the claims of the present invention without departing from the design spirit of the present invention.

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1. A process for improving the strength of a heat-treated steel rail through vanadium-nitrogen microalloy comprises smelting, refining, rolling and heat treatment, and steelmaking adopts a molten iron pretreatment-converter-LF refining-VD vacuum degassing-billet continuous casting process production line, and is characterized in that: the steel rail comprises the following components in percentage by weight: c+si+mn:2.40-2.60%; v:0.06-0.12%; n:0.006-0.008%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities;
in the tapping station of the converter, the nitrogen content in the molten steel is controlled to be 0.002 percent, and the molten steel enters refining;
adding 1-2kg/t of 10% FeV alloy in an LF furnace in place, performing component fine adjustment and heating operation, sampling after 10min, when the V content is 0.06%, obviously improving the nitrogen content in molten steel, adding 1-2kg of 10% VN alloy, controlling the V content to be 0.09% and controlling the N content to be 0.008% when refining is out of place;
vacuum degassing by VD: the vacuum degree is less than or equal to 0.10KPa, the deep vacuum time is more than 15min, the soft blowing time is more than 15min, molten steel cannot be exposed during soft blowing, the nitrogen content in the vacuum process is reduced, and the control target is 0.007%;
heating and preserving heat of the steel billet, and rapidly cooling the steel rail rolled by BD1, BD2 and CCS to 440-460 ℃ on line after cooling to 800 ℃; and (3) returning the temperature of the steel rail, maintaining the temperature to 520-580 ℃ for isothermal transformation, and naturally cooling to obtain the hundred-meter fixed-length online heat-treated steel rail.
2. The process for increasing the strength of heat treated steel rails by vanadium nitrogen microalloying according to claim 1, wherein: the lamellar spacing is below 120 nm.
3. The process for increasing the strength of heat treated steel rails by vanadium nitrogen microalloying according to claim 1, wherein: the steel rail comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.79% of C, 0.66% of Si, 0.96% of Mn, 0.016% of P, 0.003% of S, 0.09% of V, 0.002% of Al and 1.2X10% of H -4 %、O 10×10 -4 %、N 72×10 -4 The balance of Fe and impurities.
4. The process for increasing the strength of heat treated steel rails by vanadium nitrogen microalloying according to claim 1, wherein: the steel rail comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.80% of C,Si 0.72%、Mn 1.04%、P 0.019%、S 0.002%、V 0.09%、Al 0.002%、H 1.6×10 -4 %、O 12×10 -4 %、N 76×10 -4 The balance of Fe and impurities.
5. A process for increasing the strength of a heat treated steel rail by a vanadium nitrogen microalloy according to claim 3, wherein: the interlayer spacing of the pearlite sheets of the steel rail is 110nm, and the tensile strength Rm is as follows: 1265MPa, tread hardness: 369HB.
6. The process for increasing the strength of heat treated steel rails by vanadium nitrogen microalloying according to claim 4, wherein: the interlayer spacing of the pearlite sheets of the steel rail is 106nm, and the tensile strength Rm is as follows: 1285MPa, tread hardness: 372HB.
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