EP0467749B1 - Procédé de revêtement d'aluminium par trempé à chaud d'une bande d'acier et bande d'acier inoxydable ferritique - Google Patents

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EP0467749B1
EP0467749B1 EP91401890A EP91401890A EP0467749B1 EP 0467749 B1 EP0467749 B1 EP 0467749B1 EP 91401890 A EP91401890 A EP 91401890A EP 91401890 A EP91401890 A EP 91401890A EP 0467749 B1 EP0467749 B1 EP 0467749B1
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Eric Buscarlet
Charles Brun
Danielle Quantin
Jean-Paul Hennechart
Marc Mantel
Patrice De Veyrac
Bernard Baroux
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
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    • C23C2/00—Hot-dipping or immersion processes for applying the coating material in the molten state without affecting the shape; Apparatus therefor
    • C23C2/04—Hot-dipping or immersion processes for applying the coating material in the molten state without affecting the shape; Apparatus therefor characterised by the coating material
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  • the present invention relates to a process for coating aluminum by hot-dipping a strip of ferritic stainless steel.
  • EP-A-0 246 418 discloses an aluminizing process by hot dipping of a strip of ferritic stainless steel in which the strip is preheated to about 677 ° C. to clean its surface and this is heated. band above 843 ° C in a reducing atmosphere.
  • the strip is cooled in an atmosphere containing at least 95% hydrogen and then, avoiding contact with ambient air, the strip is soaked in a bath of liquid aluminum and wrung out.
  • This known method has several drawbacks.
  • preheating strongly oxidizes the surface of the strip, which leads to passing it in a hydrogen atmosphere to reduce the oxides formed on its surface.
  • This process applies in particular to the coating of pure aluminum.
  • the present invention aims to remedy these drawbacks, on the one hand by avoiding the use of a gas containing at least 95% hydrogen, and on the other hand, by making it possible to produce coatings with an aluminum alloy- silicon.
  • the ferritic stainless steel strip contains at most 25% by weight of chromium.
  • the strip of ferritic stainless steel 8 penetrates the installation through the preheating furnace 1, in which the atmosphere is a first non-oxidizing atmosphere containing less than 3% of oxygen.
  • the temperature of the strip 8 is less than 500 ° C. and preferably equal to 460 ° C., the residence time of any portion of said strip in this preheating oven is less than 60 seconds and preferably less than 45 seconds.
  • the strip 8 passes through the laboratory oven 2, then is deflected by a roller 9 to penetrate into the holding oven 3 where it circulates in staggered rows around the rollers 10.
  • the atmosphere prevailing in the laboratory oven 2 and in the holding oven 3 is constituted by a second non-oxidizing atmosphere and this atmosphere is adjusted to have, at all points, a dew point below -40 ° C. and preferably lower than -50 ° C.
  • the temperature of the strip 8 is less than 950 ° C. and preferably equal to 900 ° C., the residence time of any portion of said strip in this oven is less than 120 seconds and preferably less than 90 seconds.
  • the temperature of the strip 8 is maintained at a temperature below 950 ° C. and preferably equal to 900 ° C., the residence time of any portion of said strip in this holding oven is less than 220 seconds and preferably less than 190 seconds.
  • the strip 8 enters the cooling zone 4, then is deflected by a roller 11 to pass through the chute 5 and to plunge into the bath 6 of coating metal.
  • the strip 8 is wrung out by gas blown through the nozzles 7 and discharged.
  • the non-reactive atmosphere is composed of a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen and the temperature of the strip is brought to a value close to the temperature of the bath 6 of coating metal, preferably included. between 660 ° C and 730 ° C.
  • the temperature of the strip 8 practically does not vary and the atmosphere of the said chute is either a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen, or pure nitrogen.
  • the nitrogen used to make the mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen or to constitute the atmosphere of the chute 5, contains less than 20 ppm of oxygen and has a dew point below - 60 ° C.
  • the hydrogen used to make the mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen has an oxygen content of less than 10 ppm and a dew point of less than - 60 ° C.
  • the surface of the strip is not oxidized at the entrance to the cooling zone.
  • the quantity of the oxygen element detected on the surface on different steel strips having been preheated to different temperatures T in the preheating furnace 1 increases considerably when the temperature of said test strips exceeds 500 ° C.
  • the light intensity is proportional to the quantity of oxygen contained on the surface in the steel strip, the erosion time being linked to the thickness of the layer analyzed.
  • the cooling metal bath 6 is a mixture of aluminum and silicon containing up to about 11% silicon by weight.
  • a first strip of ferritic stainless steel was coated by dipping in a bath of almost pure aluminum under the following conditions: .
  • Preheating oven 1 - room temperature 814 ° C - temperature of the strip leaving the oven 437 ° C - oxygen content in the atmosphere ⁇ 2% .
  • Laboratory oven 2 and holding oven 3 - output tape temperature 857 ° C - atmosphere nitrogen 40% hydrogen 60% - Dew point -50 ° C .
  • Cooling zone 4 and chute 5 - output tape temperature 710 ° C - atmosphere Nitrogen 100% .
  • Coating bath 6 contents in aluminum 96.92% silicon 0.18% Iron 2.9%
  • the coating layer obtained has a weight per square meter of 89 g / m2 and the following composition: Silicon 1% Iron 19% Aluminum 80%
  • the ferritic stainless steel which constitutes the strip is of the Al Si 409 type and contains by weight: VS 0.01% Cr 11.5% Yes 0.5% Ti 0.2%
  • a second strip of ferritic stainless steel of the same composition as the previous one was coated by dipping in a bath containing a mixture of aluminum and silicon and under the following conditions: .
  • Preheating oven 1 - room temperature 914 ° C - strip temperature at the outlet of the oven 462 ° C - oxygen content in the atmosphere ⁇ 2% .
  • Laboratory oven 2 and holding oven 3 - output tape temperature 845 ° C - atmosphere nitrogen 40% hydrogen 60% dew point -50 ° C .
  • Cooling zone 4 and chute 5 - Outlet belt temperature 711 ° C - atmosphere nitrogen 100% .
  • Coating bath 6 contents in Aluminum 87.6% Silicon 9.1% Iron 3.3%
  • the coating layer thus obtained has a weight per square meter of 118 g / m2 and the following composition: Aluminum 86.8% Silicon 6% Iron 7.2%
  • the process according to the invention makes it possible to avoid using pure hydrogen and also makes it possible to obtain coating layers with a high silicon content having a behavior under the adhesion test better than that obtained with coatings with very low silicon content.

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