EP2634270A1 - Annealing separation agent for producing grain-oriented silicon steel with smooth surface and good magnetic property - Google Patents

Annealing separation agent for producing grain-oriented silicon steel with smooth surface and good magnetic property Download PDF

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EP2634270A1
EP2634270A1 EP11835488.5A EP11835488A EP2634270A1 EP 2634270 A1 EP2634270 A1 EP 2634270A1 EP 11835488 A EP11835488 A EP 11835488A EP 2634270 A1 EP2634270 A1 EP 2634270A1
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  • the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steels, especially to an annealing separator for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steels with mirror-like surface having excellent magnetic performance.
  • Grain-oriented silicon steel shall be subjected to decarburization annealing protected in a H 2 -N 2 atmosphere, after being subjected to processes of hot-rolling, normalizing and cold rolling, and accordingly the rolling stress is relieved and preliminary recrystallization is formed, and meanwhile, wet gas is introduced into a furnace for controlling a carbon content in the steel belt below 30ppm to prevent the final product from magnetic aging.
  • the steel belt will be oxidized when subjected to the decarburization annealing to form an oxide layer mainly consisting of SiO 2 and Fe 2 SiO 4 , which will negatively affect the following decarburization.
  • the oxide layer undergoes chemical reaction with the annealing separator coated on surfaces of the steel belt, and produces a glass-film undercoating mainly consisting of Mg 2 SiO 4 .
  • the glass-film undercoating has the function of preventing the steel belt from bonding and purifying the steel during the high-temperature annealing.
  • the Mg 2 SiO 4 glass-film undercoating on the surface of the grain-oriented silicon steel has relative high hardness, which results in a relative poor punching performance of the steel sheet, which is generally thousands of times; and, an embedded combination between the glass-film undercoating and a body of the steel sheet hinders magnetic domain wall movement, and increases magnetic hysteresis loss.
  • Japanese patent JP49096920 discloses a method that removes glass-film undercoating on the surface of the grain-oriented silicon steel by means of acid pickling.
  • the steel in order to completely wash out the glass-film undercoating with a thickness of 10 ⁇ m (including the oxide embedded into the steel sheet), the steel shall be immersed in strong acid for a long period, which results in the problems of high cost, environmental pollution of the agent and the like.
  • Japanese patent JP05156362A discloses that Al 2 O 3 is applied as a high-temperature annealing separator. Al 2 O 3 does not react with the oxide layer or the body of steel sheet, so that the grain-oriented silicon steel without the glass film undercoating can be obtained directly. However, the method cannot remove the oxide layer or embedded oxide formed during decarburizing annealing, which is disadvantage in term of improving the magnetic performance.
  • Japanese patent JP2003247024 relates to a method in which the ratio of PH 2 O/PH 2 is controlled to form an atmosphere having a low degree of oxidizability, thus no Fe based oxide is formed, a separator mainly of Al 2 O 3 then is coated to obtain grain-oriented steel with smooth surface.
  • a separator mainly of Al 2 O 3 then is coated to obtain grain-oriented steel with smooth surface.
  • the degree of oxidizablility is too low during decarburizing, it will result in the difficulty of decarburization.
  • Japanese patent JP05156364A after the decarburization annealing is completed, an oxide layer on the surface of the steel sheet is removed by means of acid pickling, and then a separator mainly of Al 2 O 3 is coated.
  • MgO+SiO 2 is used as an annealing separator, which forms loose magnesium silicate on surfaces of a steel sheet during a secondary recrystallization annealing step, then the loose magnesium silicate is removed by brushing and washing, so that a product without glass-film undercoating is obtained.
  • magnesia and alumina added with chloride are used as an annealing separator, the formed glass film undercoating is removed by means of interfacial reaction of (2/3)MC1 3 + Fe + (3/2)O 2 ⁇ M 2 O 3 + FeCl 2 ⁇ , so that a product without any glass-film undercoating is obtained.
  • JFE a Japanese company, uses Al 2 O 3 and the like, which does not react with the surface of the steel sheet, as a high-temperature annealing separator to directly obtain a grain-oriented silicon steel without any glass-film undercoating.
  • the dew point for decarburizing shall be so strictly controlled that no Fe based oxide is formed on the surface of the steel sheet.
  • this will inevitably cause the problem of decarburization and nitridation.
  • Armco company now AK company
  • AK company uses magnesia, which is added with SiO 2 , as an annealing separator, wherein the loose magnesium silicate formed on the steel sheet during a secondary recrystallizaion annealing step will benefit in introducing annealing protection gas into interlayer portion of the steel sheet for purifying the steel.
  • magnesia which is added with SiO 2
  • annealing separator wherein the loose magnesium silicate formed on the steel sheet during a secondary recrystallizaion annealing step will benefit in introducing annealing protection gas into interlayer portion of the steel sheet for purifying the steel.
  • a method cannot completely wash out the magnesium silicate on the surface, and cannot completely remove the embedded oxide at the near surface of the iron sheet, either, which restricts the effect of lowering iron core loss.
  • NSC which is a Japanese company
  • magnesia which is added with chloride, as an annealing separator.
  • adding large amount of chloride will result in certain corrosion to the surface of the steel sheet during a secondary recrystallization annealing, which will affect surface inhibitor, the secondary recrystallization will be unstable.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide an annealing separator for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance, which can prevent the glass-film undercoating from forming on the steel sheet, meanwhile the embedded oxide at the near-surface of sheet can be removed by means of corrosion reaction with the chloride, so that a product with smooth surface and stable magnetic performance can be obtained.
  • An annealing separator for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance consists of a composition as follows: 77 ⁇ 98% by weight of Al 2 O 3 powder, 1 ⁇ 8% by weight of alkaline earth metal oxide powder, 1 ⁇ 15% by weight of alkali metal chloride and/or alkaline earth metal chloride.
  • the alkaline earth metal oxide comprises BeO, MgO, CaO, SrO, or BaO.
  • the alkali metal chloride comprises LiCl, NaCl, KCl, or RbCl.
  • alkaline earth metal chloride comprises BeCl 2 , MgCl 2 , CaCl 2 , SrCl 2 , BaCl 2 or ZnCl 2 .
  • the annealing separator for the grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface of the invention forms a coating liquid having a certain concentration, then coating on the surface of the decarburized sheet is carried out. After the completion of coating, the product is baked under a temperature not higher than 300°C for more than 30s, so as to expel free moisture in the separator. At this time, the separator forms a substance having micropores, and the main composition of the substance is a mixture of Al 2 O 3 , Ca(OH) 2 and one or more kinds of chloride, which has good permeability.
  • Ca(OH) 2 is subjected to a decomposition reaction and again produces CaO and releases moisture when the temperature is higher than 580°C.
  • the presence of the moisture at one hand provides some solution, and at the other hand reacts with the chlorine ion to form an acid substance of HCl, which has a certain corrosion function.
  • HCl in gas phase penetrates through the separator, reacts with the oxide layer of the sheet, and promote the reaction designated by the chemical equilibrium 3 rightward, so that the reaction occurs continuously.
  • the oxide layer corrupted by HCl degrades to a loose and porous substance, the binding force of which with the sheet is reduced substantially.
  • the grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface and smooth surface can be finally obtained after hot stretching and flattening process.
  • the glass film undercoating formed during the conventional high-temperature annealing for grain-oriented silicon steel presents a relative high hardness, which will degrade the punching performance of the silicon steel sheet, molds will be damaged in some extents during the manufacturing. Meanwhile, a pinned structure of the oxide in the body of sheet hinders the magnetic domain wall movement, which will negatively affect the magnetic performance.
  • the grain-oriented silicon steel without undercoating can substantially improves the processability of the silicon steel, and the processability thereof can be further improved due to the absence of the pinned structure, so that a product with extra low iron core loss can be obtained.
  • patents for obtaining grain-oriented surface silicon steel mainly relate to MgO and chloride or Al 2 O 3 .
  • the former will result in instability of the magnetic performance, and the latter cannot remove the embedded oxide formed during decarburizing annealing process.
  • Some one utilizes the Al 2 O 3 separator added with chloride, however, the chloride itself needs the assistance of certain moisture for reacting with the embedded oxide to remove the same.
  • the invention inventively introduces the alkaline earth metal oxide, based on the water solubility of the alkaline earth metal oxide, the moisture introduced during the high-temperature annealing can be controlled easily. Such a method is easy, and can stably obtain excellent grain-oriented silicon steel products.
  • the apparatus concerned is conventional apparatus for producing grain-oriented steel, which has excellent practicability and spreadability, which features good expectation of popularizing.
  • a 500Kg-vacuum furnace is used for steel-smelting, the chemical composition of a steel blank is (in Wt%): 0.045% by weight of C, 3.25% by weight of Si, 0.006% by weight of S, 0.027% by weight of Als, 0.006% by weight of N, 0.15% by weight of Cu, 0.012 % by weight of Mn and a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities.
  • the blank After being heated under 1150°C, the blank is hot rolled to form a hot rolled sheet with a thickness of 2.6mm.
  • the hot rolled sheet is normalized and annealed for 1 minutes, and then is pickled and cold rolled to form the sheet with a final thickness of 0.285mm.
  • the cold rolled sheet undergoes decarburizing annealing treatment under 835 °C for 120s, so there are two levels of the oxygen content on the surface: 0.8 and 1.6g/m 2 ; after the process of nitriding, the nitrogen content of the steel sheet is 250ppm.
  • the decarburized and annealed sheet is coated by the annealing separator (the material proportion is shown in Table 2), after being wound, the sheet undergoes high-temperature annealing at 1200°C, which temperature is held for 20 hours, in the protective atmosphere of dry nitrogen and hydrogen, then the sheet is coated with an insulation coating, stretched and flattened, and annealed after unwound.
  • the high-temperature annealing separator of the present invention effectively purifies the steel and prevents coils of the steel from binding, and on the other hand, the present invention provides a corrosive atmosphere during the annealing with high temperature to remove the oxide layer at near-surface, so that grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance can be produced.

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An annealing separator for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance consists of the composition of which is 77-98 by wt% of Al2O3 powder, 1-8 by wt% of alkaline earth powder, 1∼15 by wt% of alkali metal chloride and/or alkaline earth metal chloride. The annealing separator of the invention can avoid forming a glass-film undercoating on the surface of the steel sheet during high-temperature annealing, and at the same time, the oxide embedded at near-surface of the sheet is removed by means of corrosive reaction of the chloride, so that a produce with smooth surface and stable magnetic performance is obtained.

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    Field of the Invention
  • The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steels, especially to an annealing separator for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steels with mirror-like surface having excellent magnetic performance.
    • Description of the Prior Art
  • Grain-oriented silicon steel shall be subjected to decarburization annealing protected in a H2-N2 atmosphere, after being subjected to processes of hot-rolling, normalizing and cold rolling, and accordingly the rolling stress is relieved and preliminary recrystallization is formed, and meanwhile, wet gas is introduced into a furnace for controlling a carbon content in the steel belt below 30ppm to prevent the final product from magnetic aging. The steel belt will be oxidized when subjected to the decarburization annealing to form an oxide layer mainly consisting of SiO2 and Fe2SiO4, which will negatively affect the following decarburization. In the following high-temperature annealing process, the oxide layer undergoes chemical reaction with the annealing separator coated on surfaces of the steel belt, and produces a glass-film undercoating mainly consisting of Mg2SiO4. The glass-film undercoating has the function of preventing the steel belt from bonding and purifying the steel during the high-temperature annealing.
  • The Mg2SiO4 glass-film undercoating on the surface of the grain-oriented silicon steel has relative high hardness, which results in a relative poor punching performance of the steel sheet, which is generally thousands of times; and, an embedded combination between the glass-film undercoating and a body of the steel sheet hinders magnetic domain wall movement, and increases magnetic hysteresis loss.
  • In order to improve the punching performance of the grain-oriented silicon steel and further improve the magnetic performance, Japanese develop a grain-oriented silicon steel without the glass-film undercoating. Japanese patent JP49096920 discloses a method that removes glass-film undercoating on the surface of the grain-oriented silicon steel by means of acid pickling. However, in order to completely wash out the glass-film undercoating with a thickness of 10µm (including the oxide embedded into the steel sheet), the steel shall be immersed in strong acid for a long period, which results in the problems of high cost, environmental pollution of the agent and the like.
  • Japanese patent JP05156362A discloses that Al2O3 is applied as a high-temperature annealing separator. Al2O3 does not react with the oxide layer or the body of steel sheet, so that the grain-oriented silicon steel without the glass film undercoating can be obtained directly. However, the method cannot remove the oxide layer or embedded oxide formed during decarburizing annealing, which is disadvantage in term of improving the magnetic performance.
  • To solve this problem, Japanese patent JP2003247024 relates to a method in which the ratio of PH2O/PH2 is controlled to form an atmosphere having a low degree of oxidizability, thus no Fe based oxide is formed, a separator mainly of Al2O3 then is coated to obtain grain-oriented steel with smooth surface. However, if the degree of oxidizablility is too low during decarburizing, it will result in the difficulty of decarburization. In Japanese patent JP05156364A , after the decarburization annealing is completed, an oxide layer on the surface of the steel sheet is removed by means of acid pickling, and then a separator mainly of Al2O3 is coated.
  • In US patent US554719 , MgO+SiO2 is used as an annealing separator, which forms loose magnesium silicate on surfaces of a steel sheet during a secondary recrystallization annealing step, then the loose magnesium silicate is removed by brushing and washing, so that a product without glass-film undercoating is obtained.
  • In Japanese patent JP2000038615 , magnesia and alumina added with chloride are used as an annealing separator, the formed glass film undercoating is removed by means of interfacial reaction of (2/3)MC13 + Fe + (3/2)O2→M2O3+ FeCl2↑, so that a product without any glass-film undercoating is obtained.
  • JFE, a Japanese company, uses Al2O3 and the like, which does not react with the surface of the steel sheet, as a high-temperature annealing separator to directly obtain a grain-oriented silicon steel without any glass-film undercoating. In such a method, in order to completely eliminate near-surface oxide impurity of the steel sheet, the dew point for decarburizing shall be so strictly controlled that no Fe based oxide is formed on the surface of the steel sheet. However, this will inevitably cause the problem of decarburization and nitridation.
  • Armco company (now AK company), a US company, uses magnesia, which is added with SiO2, as an annealing separator, wherein the loose magnesium silicate formed on the steel sheet during a secondary recrystallizaion annealing step will benefit in introducing annealing protection gas into interlayer portion of the steel sheet for purifying the steel. However, generally, such a method cannot completely wash out the magnesium silicate on the surface, and cannot completely remove the embedded oxide at the near surface of the iron sheet, either, which restricts the effect of lowering iron core loss.
  • NSC, which is a Japanese company, uses magnesia, which is added with chloride, as an annealing separator. However, adding large amount of chloride will result in certain corrosion to the surface of the steel sheet during a secondary recrystallization annealing, which will affect surface inhibitor, the secondary recrystallization will be unstable. Table 1
    Main composition of the separator fundamental
    US3785882 100% by weight of Gross Al2O3 No undercoating reaction occurs
    US554719 (35-85% by weight)MgO+(15-65% by weight) SiO2 Loose undercoating, which can be easily removed, is formed on the steel sheet surface
    JP08269560 A MgO+Cl- An amount of Cl added is controlled at 0.05-0.5% by weight The undercoating is removed by interfacial reaction of (CaCl2+Fe (1/2)O2→CaO+FeCl2↑)
    • Summary of the Invention
  • The object of the present invention is to provide an annealing separator for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance, which can prevent the glass-film undercoating from forming on the steel sheet, meanwhile the embedded oxide at the near-surface of sheet can be removed by means of corrosion reaction with the chloride, so that a product with smooth surface and stable magnetic performance can be obtained.
  • In order to obtain the above-described object, the technical solution of the present invention is that:
  • An annealing separator for manufacturing grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance consists of a composition as follows: 77∼98% by weight of Al2O3 powder, 1∼8% by weight of alkaline earth metal oxide powder, 1∼15% by weight of alkali metal chloride and/or alkaline earth metal chloride.
  • Further, the alkaline earth metal oxide comprises BeO, MgO, CaO, SrO, or BaO.
  • In addition, the alkali metal chloride comprises LiCl, NaCl, KCl, or RbCl.
  • alkaline earth metal chloride comprises BeCl2, MgCl2, CaCl2, SrCl2, BaCl2 or ZnCl2.
  • It is found by experiment that it will be effective for removing the oxide layer at the near-surface of sheet by applying a substance that does not react with the oxide layer of the sheet as the annealing separator during high-temperature annealing, the substance is added with a few amount of alkaline earth metal oxide for introducing moisture not higher than 2.5wt%, and a certain amount of chloride is also added, so that the moisture reacts with the chloride ion contained in the chloride additive to form corrosive solution with acidity, which is good advantageous for removing oxide layer at the near-surface of sheet.
  • By adding and stirring water, the annealing separator for the grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface of the invention forms a coating liquid having a certain concentration, then coating on the surface of the decarburized sheet is carried out. After the completion of coating, the product is baked under a temperature not higher than 300°C for more than 30s, so as to expel free moisture in the separator. At this time, the separator forms a substance having micropores, and the main composition of the substance is a mixture of Al2O3, Ca(OH)2 and one or more kinds of chloride, which has good permeability. The primary chemical reaction during the hydrolysis is

            CaO+H2O=Ca(OH)2     ①

  • In a preliminary phase of the high-temperature annealing, Ca(OH)2 is subjected to a decomposition reaction and again produces CaO and releases moisture when the temperature is higher than 580°C. The presence of the moisture at one hand provides some solution, and at the other hand reacts with the chlorine ion to form an acid substance of HCl, which has a certain corrosion function. Chemical reactions occurred in subsequence during the high annealing are as follows:

            Ca(OH)2=CaO+H2O     ②

            H2O+Cl-↔HCl ↑+OH-     ③

  • HCl in gas phase penetrates through the separator, reacts with the oxide layer of the sheet, and promote the reaction designated by the chemical equilibrium ③ rightward, so that the reaction occurs continuously. The reaction between HCl and oxide layer is as follows:

            2HCl+FeO=FeCl2+H2O↑     ④

            4HCl+Fe2SiO4=2FeCl2+SiO2+2H2O ↑     ⑤

  • The oxide layer corrupted by HCl degrades to a loose and porous substance, the binding force of which with the sheet is reduced substantially. By slightly being pickled and brushed after high-temperature annealing, such oxide layer can be easily removed. Thus, the grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface and smooth surface can be finally obtained after hot stretching and flattening process.
  • The glass film undercoating formed during the conventional high-temperature annealing for grain-oriented silicon steel presents a relative high hardness, which will degrade the punching performance of the silicon steel sheet, molds will be damaged in some extents during the manufacturing. Meanwhile, a pinned structure of the oxide in the body of sheet hinders the magnetic domain wall movement, which will negatively affect the magnetic performance. The grain-oriented silicon steel without undercoating can substantially improves the processability of the silicon steel, and the processability thereof can be further improved due to the absence of the pinned structure, so that a product with extra low iron core loss can be obtained.
  • Prior to the present invention, patents for obtaining grain-oriented surface silicon steel mainly relate to MgO and chloride or Al2O3. The former will result in instability of the magnetic performance, and the latter cannot remove the embedded oxide formed during decarburizing annealing process. Some one utilizes the Al2O3 separator added with chloride, however, the chloride itself needs the assistance of certain moisture for reacting with the embedded oxide to remove the same.
  • The invention inventively introduces the alkaline earth metal oxide, based on the water solubility of the alkaline earth metal oxide, the moisture introduced during the high-temperature annealing can be controlled easily. Such a method is easy, and can stably obtain excellent grain-oriented silicon steel products. The apparatus concerned is conventional apparatus for producing grain-oriented steel, which has excellent practicability and spreadability, which features good expectation of popularizing.
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    • Fig.1 is a sectional optical photograph of a steel sheet of comparative example 1 (separator: MgO 65Wt% plus SiO2 35 Wt%).
    • Fig.2 is a sectional optical photograph of a steel sheet of comparative example 2 (separator: MgO 90Wt% plus CaCl2 Wt%).
    • Fig.3 is a sectional optical photograph of a steel sheet of comparative example 3 (separator: Al2O3100 Wt%).
    • Fig.4 is a sectional optical photograph of a steel sheet of an embodiment of the invention (the separator: Al2O3 86 Wt% plus CaO 4Wt% plus MgCl2 10 Wt%).
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  • Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in connection with embodiments.
  • A 500Kg-vacuum furnace is used for steel-smelting, the chemical composition of a steel blank is (in Wt%): 0.045% by weight of C, 3.25% by weight of Si, 0.006% by weight of S, 0.027% by weight of Als, 0.006% by weight of N, 0.15% by weight of Cu, 0.012 % by weight of Mn and a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities. After being heated under 1150°C, the blank is hot rolled to form a hot rolled sheet with a thickness of 2.6mm. The hot rolled sheet is normalized and annealed for 1 minutes, and then is pickled and cold rolled to form the sheet with a final thickness of 0.285mm. The cold rolled sheet undergoes decarburizing annealing treatment under 835 °C for 120s, so there are two levels of the oxygen content on the surface: 0.8 and 1.6g/m2; after the process of nitriding, the nitrogen content of the steel sheet is 250ppm. The decarburized and annealed sheet is coated by the annealing separator (the material proportion is shown in Table 2), after being wound, the sheet undergoes high-temperature annealing at 1200°C, which temperature is held for 20 hours, in the protective atmosphere of dry nitrogen and hydrogen, then the sheet is coated with an insulation coating, stretched and flattened, and annealed after unwound. Table 2 (% by weight)
    description Al2O3 alkaline earth metal oxide alkali metal chloride/alkaline earth chloride
    Embodiment 1 98 CaO 1 MgCl2 1
    Embodiment 2 86 CaO 4 MgCl2 10
    Embodiment 3 77 CaO 8 MgCl2 15
    Embodiment 4 86 BeO 4 LiCl 10
    Embodiment 5 86 MgO 4 NaCl 10
    Embodiment 6 86 SrO 4 KCl 10
    Embodiment 7 86 BaO 4 RbCl 10
    Embodiment 8 86 MgO 4 BeCl2 10
    Embodiment 9 86 SrO 4 CaCl2 10
    Embodiment 10 86 BaO 4 SrCl2 10
    Embodiment 11 86 CaO 4 BaCl2 10
    Embodiment 12 86 CaO 4 ZnCl2 10
    comparative example 1 65 parts of MgO 35 parts of SiO2
    comparative example 2 90 parts of MgO + 10 parts of CaCl2
    comparative example 3 Al2O3 100 parts
  • The average values of the electromagnetic performance of the resulted products and the surface qualities thereof are shown in table 3. Table 3
    Separator Surface oxygen content Electromagnetic performance Surface appearance
    B8, T P17/50, W/kg
    Embodiment 1 0.8 g/m2 1.897 0.753 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.905 0.745 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 2 0.8 g/m2 1.891 0.783 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.897 0.774 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 3 0.8 g/m2 1.899 0.735 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.903 0.734 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 4 0.8 g/m2 1.888 0.779 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.897 0.748 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 5 0.8 g/m2 1.889 0.776 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.895 0.773 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 6 0.8 g/m2 1.900 0.769 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.900 0.743 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 7 0.8 g/m2 1.890 0.782 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.903 0.775 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 8 0.8 g/m2 1.895 0.768 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.893 0.760 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 9 0.8 g/m2 1.899 0.772 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.903 0.769 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 10 0.8 g/m2 1.887 0.766 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.890 0.760 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 11 0.8 g/m2 1.897 0.771 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.910 0.743 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    Embodiment 12 0.8 g/m2 1.887 0.775 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.899 0.762 Smooth surface, no undercoating
    comparative example 1 0.8 g/m2 1.927 0.705 The surface includes partial undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.921 0.720 The surface includes complete undercoating
    comparative example 2 0.8 g/m2 1.825 0.997 The surface includes partial undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.857 0.897 The surface includes partial undercoating
    comparative example 3 0.8 g/m2 1.865 0.903 The surface includes partial undercoating
    1.6 g/m2 1.847 0.937 The surface includes partial undercoating
  • It can be seen from Figs.1-4 and Table 3 that there is few oxide residual existing on the surface of the silicon steel sheet coated with the separator of the invention, and the magnetic performance of the steel sheet are good. Thus, it can be seen that the grain-oriented steel sheet with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance can be manufactured by the effective finish process on the surface of the grain-oriented silicon steel in the present invention.
  • On one hand, the high-temperature annealing separator of the present invention effectively purifies the steel and prevents coils of the steel from binding, and on the other hand, the present invention provides a corrosive atmosphere during the annealing with high temperature to remove the oxide layer at near-surface, so that grain-oriented silicon steel with mirror-like surface having good magnetic performance can be produced.

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  1. An annealing separator for manufacturing a grain-oriented silicon steel with good magnetic performance, which consists of a composition as follows:
    77∼98% by weight of Al2O3 powder;
    1∼8% by weight of alkaline earth metal oxide powder;
    1∼15% by weight of alkali metal chloride and/or alkaline earth metal chloride.
  2. The annealing separator for manufacturing a grain-oriented silicon steel with good magnetic performance according to Claim 1, wherein the alkaline earth metal oxide comprises BeO, MgO, CaO ,SrO or BaO.
  3. The annealing separator for manufacturing a grain-oriented silicon steel with good magnetic performance according to Claim 1, wherein the alkali metal chloride comprises LiCl, NaCl, KCl or RbCl.
  4. The annealing separator for manufacturing a grain-oriented silicon steel with good magnetic performance according to Claim 1, wherein the alkaline earth metal chloride comprises BeCl2, MgCl2, CaCl2, SrCl2, BaCl2 or ZnCl2.
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