JP3017978B1 - Nickel brazing filler metal for EGR cooler joining, method of manufacturing EGR cooler using the same, and EGR cooler - Google Patents

Abstract

Kind Code: A1 A nickel brazing filler metal for EGR cooler joining, which can prevent cracks and crevice corrosion caused by corrosion of an embrittlement phase on the surface of a fillet portion, and has excellent corrosion resistance, high-temperature oxidation resistance, and repetitive thermal stress resistance. And a method of manufacturing an EGR cooler using the same, and an EGR cooler. Kind Code: A1 A nickel brazing material used for joining stainless steel members constituting an EGR cooler is changed to a powdery nickel brazing material by using Ni, Cr, Ni—Cr alloy, S
A metal powder selected from US is added in an amount of 4% by weight to 22% by weight.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a nickel brazing filler metal for joining an EGR cooler, a method for manufacturing an EGR cooler using the same, and an EGR cooler, and more particularly to a nickel for joining an EGR cooler capable of improving a brazing structure. Brazing material, method of manufacturing EGR cooler using the same, and EG
R cooler.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a case where a member using a stainless steel material is connected in an EGR cooler, a joint of the member may be connected by brazing using a nickel brazing material.

[0003] This nickel braze is JISZ3265-
As specified in 1986, nickel (Ni) as a main component, boron (B), silicon (Si), chromium (C
r), an alloy containing additives such as iron (Fe) and phosphorus (P). These additives adjust the melting point of the brazing material, improve the fluidity of the brazing material and the wettability with members after melting, and improve the toughness of the brazing material after curing.

[0004]

By the way, in such a nickel brazing material, during solidification, the brazing material is formed because the primary α phase of Ni, which is rich in toughness, crystallizes from the interface of the base material. The embrittlement phase composed of other intermetallic compounds such as Si, B, and P is continuously crystallized at the center of the finally solidified joint,
Crystallizes easily on the surface of the fillet.

[0005] When an embrittlement phase is formed on the surface of the fillet as described above, cracks tend to occur in the fillet as shown in FIG. In particular, when the amount of the brazing material applied is large, the fillet portion becomes excessively large, and cracks tend to occur in the fillet portion. When a crack occurs in the fillet portion, a corrosive fluid such as high-temperature exhaust gas, cooling water, or exhaust gas condensed water contacts the brazing fillet portion in the EGR cooler. Crevice corrosion occurs by invading cracks generated in the brazed portion. In addition, the embrittlement phase itself appearing on the surface of the fillet is easily corroded by the corrosive fluid, and if this embrittlement phase corrodes, crevice corrosion will progress.

Accordingly, the present invention improves the brazing structure to prevent the crystallization of a continuous embrittlement phase at the fillet portion, and to crystallize a large amount of Ni α phase on the surface of the fillet portion to thereby improve the fillet surface. It can prevent crystallization of the embrittlement phase on the surface, can prevent cracks and crevice corrosion caused by partial corrosion of the embrittlement phase on the surface, has good corrosion resistance, high-temperature oxidation resistance, repetitive heat resistance It is an object of the present invention to provide a nickel brazing filler metal for EGR cooler joining excellent in stress property, a method for manufacturing an EGR cooler using the same, and an EGR cooler.

[0007]

As a result of various experiments, the applicant of the present invention has found that a certain amount of a specific metal powder is added to a powdered nickel brazing alloy for EGR cooler joining to thereby reduce the embrittlement phase in the fillet portion. It has been found that continuous crystallization can be prevented, and that a large amount of Ni α phase can be crystallized on the surface of the fillet to reduce the crystallization of the embrittlement phase.

Thus, cracks are prevented from occurring in the embrittlement phase of the fillet portion, and corrosion from the embrittlement phase on the surface of the fillet portion is prevented, so that crevice corrosion caused by corrosive fluid penetration is effectively prevented. And toughness,
The α phase of Ni, which has excellent corrosion resistance, is dispersed in the fillet and crystallized densely, thereby improving the high-temperature oxidation resistance of the fillet at the joint of the EGR cooler, the improvement of the repetitive thermal stress resistance, and the improvement of the joint. The toughness can be improved. That is, means for solving the above problems are as follows.

The invention according to claim 1 is a nickel brazing material used for joining stainless steel members constituting an EGR cooler.
This is a nickel brazing material to which metal powder selected from Ni, Cr and Ni-Cr alloy is added in an amount of 4 to 22% by weight.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nickel brazing material used for joining stainless steel members constituting an EGR cooler.
Ni, Cr, nickel brazing material metal powder selected out of Ni-Cr alloy was added 5 wt% to 20 wt%.

In general, when the nickel brazing material is melted and solidified, the α phase of Ni grows from the interface of the base material, and the embrittlement phase is concentrated on the center and the surface of the fillet portion where the nickel solidifies last. According to the nickel brazing material according to the present invention, since the α phase of Ni grows with the powder of the added Ni or the like as a nucleus, the α phase of Ni is dispersed and crystallized densely throughout the brazing portion. Become.
As a result, it is possible to prevent the embrittlement phase from continuously crystallizing in the fillet portion, to crystallize a large amount of Ni phase on the fillet surface, and to suppress the crystallization of the embrittlement phase on the fillet surface.

Therefore, the nickel brazing material according to the present invention can prevent cracks from occurring in the fillet portion, and can prevent corrosion from the embrittlement phase on the surface of the fillet portion, thereby preventing crevice corrosion. In addition, since the α phase of Ni, which has good corrosion resistance and toughness, crystallizes at the joint, it is rich in corrosion resistance to exhaust gas and cooling water, high-temperature oxidation resistance, and repeated thermal stress resistance, and is used for joining EGR coolers. Thus, the durability of the EGR cooler can be increased.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nickel brazing material to which the powdered Ni is added in the brazing material according to the first aspect. According to the present invention, the content of powdered Ni is from 4% by weight to
The above problem can be solved by adding 22% by weight, preferably 4% to 20%.

The upper and lower limits of the addition amount of the powdered Ni and the like according to claims 1 to 3 are based on Tables 1, 2, and 3 and the experimental results shown in FIG. In other words, the more the amount of powdered Ni added, the higher the Ni content in the fillet portion.
Although the ratio of the α phase increases, the α phase of Ni hardly increases even if the addition amount exceeds 22%. When the addition amount of powdered Ni is 4% or less, a continuous embrittlement phase is generated and cracks are easily generated. Cracking can be prevented by increasing the amount of powdered Ni added, and powdered Ni is reduced by 5%.
With the above addition, the crack generation rate becomes zero. Also,
As the amount of powdered Ni increases, the generation of voids (voids) increases. However, as shown in Table 4, the applicant of the present application reported that the void occupancy (area ratio) was 2% (the amount of powdered Ni added was 22%).
%), It was confirmed that the brazed portion was sufficiently resistant to corrosion.

Further, in the present invention, by using Ni as the metal powder, there is an advantage that an α phase of Ni is easily formed at the time of nickel brazing.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the brazing material according to the first or second aspect, wherein the metal powder is powdered Cr.
It is a nickel brazing material to which is added.

Further, in the present invention, by using Cr, which is likely to be a nucleus of α phase crystallization, as the metal powder, the α phase of Ni is favorably formed during nickel brazing.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the brazing material according to the first or second aspect, wherein the metal powder is powdered Ni.
-It is a nickel brazing material to which a Cr alloy is added.

In the present invention, by using a Ni--Cr alloy which is likely to be a nucleus for phase crystallization as the metal powder, the .alpha. Phase of Ni is favorably formed during nickel brazing.

[0020]

[0021]

[0022]

[0023]

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, when joining members of an EGR cooler made of stainless steel, the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth aspect of the present invention is used.
It is a manufacturing method of the EGR cooler which uses the nickel brazing material of description.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided an EGR wherein a member made of stainless steel is joined using the nickel brazing material according to the first, second, third, fourth or fifth aspect. Cooler.

According to the sixth and seventh aspects of the present invention,
In the nickel brazing material, the α phase is dispersed not only from the interface of the base metal, which is a part of the EGR cooler made of stainless steel, but also from the powder metal as a nucleus and crystallizes throughout the brazing material phase. Does not occur continuously, and the occurrence of cracks in the fillet portion can be prevented.

Further, in the nickel brazing filler metal used in the EGR cooler according to the present invention, a large amount of Ni α phase is crystallized on the surface of the fillet and an embrittlement phase is less likely to crystallize on the surface of the fillet. In addition, the occurrence of crevice corrosion from the embrittlement phase on the surface can be effectively prevented. Furthermore, since the α phase of Ni, which is excellent in toughness and corrosion resistance, is dispersed and densely crystallized in the fillet portion, the high temperature oxidation resistance of the fillet portion at the joint portion of the EGR cooler and the improvement of the repetitive thermal stress resistance are improved. In addition, it is possible to effectively improve the toughness of the joint and to prevent crevice corrosion due to the chlorine ion of the cooling water and the condensed water of the exhaust gas, so that an EGR cooler having excellent durability can be obtained.

[0028]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of a nickel brazing material for joining an EGR cooler, a method of manufacturing an EGR cooler using the same, and an embodiment of the EGR cooler according to the present invention will be described below. This example shows a case where the present invention is applied to the case of manufacturing an EGR cooler made of stainless steel.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, an EGR system for cooling exhaust gas of an EGR system for returning exhaust gas to intake air
In addition to attaching a tube 11 for passing a cooling medium (for example, water) to a head plate 13 of a shell 10 of the cooler 9, bonding the tube 11 to the head plate 13, the head plate 13 and the shell 10, the shell 10 and the lid member 14 , Is also used for joining the shell 10 and the pipe 15. That is, the brazing material is applied to the mounting portion between the tube 11 and the end plate 13 and the other mounting portions, and the whole is heated in a vacuum furnace, so that the brazing material flows into a gap such as between the tube 11 and the end plate 13. It is to let.

According to the EGR cooler according to this embodiment, the EGR cooler
The nickel brazing material according to the present invention is used in a portion where gas, cooling water and the like come into direct contact, and a high corrosion-resistant Ni α-phase is crystallized at the joint, so that high-temperature oxidation resistance is improved.
Further, according to the EGR cooler according to the present embodiment, since the α phase of Ni having high toughness is dispersed and crystallized densely at the joint portion with nickel brazing, it can endure repeated thermal stress.

Further, according to the EGR cooler according to the present embodiment,
The fillet portion of the joint has high toughness and is hard to crack, and the surface of the fillet portion is made of Ni having high corrosion resistance.
Because a large amount of the α phase is crystallized, high corrosion resistance can be obtained even with crevice corrosion due to cooling water containing chlorine ions and highly corrosive exhaust gas condensate.

[0032]

EXAMPLES The applicant carried out brazing using a nickel brazing material in which the amount of Ni powder added was changed, and performed cross-sectional observations and tests on them.

In this embodiment, a test piece was prepared by joining a base material using a nickel brazing material prepared by changing the mixing ratio of Ni powder into a powdery nickel brazing material, and the cross section of these joints was observed under magnification. Then, the presence or absence of voids and their area, the presence or absence of cracks, and the area occupied by the α phase of Ni are measured.
The ratio of the α phase to the joint was calculated.

In this example, the powdered nickel brazing material is JI
A nickel brazing material is prepared by mixing a predetermined amount of powdered Ni having an average particle diameter of 20 μm or less as a metal powder into a powdered nickel solder of BNi-5 specified in SZ3265-1986.

In this example, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the test piece was a plate material 2 made of stainless steel (SUS304).
2 [W20, L30, T5] and plate material 21 [W10, L1
5, T5] with a 100 μm tungsten wire 25 interposed therebetween, and 5 g of the nickel brazing material 24 on the long side of the plate material 21.
A mixture kneaded with a synthetic resin binder was applied, and the test piece was prepared by heating in a vacuum furnace.

The tungsten wire 25 is interposed between the two test pieces in consideration of the maximum error in the surface processing of the material to be actually brazed. The melted nickel brazing material 24 entered the gap between the two plate members 21 and 22 by capillary action, and filled the space between the plate members. Then, the brazing filler metal that filled the space between the plate 21 and the plate 22 formed a fillet portion at a corner of the plate.

This experiment was carried out by changing the weight percent of powdered Ni mixed. Each test piece was cut, observed under a microscope, inspected for predetermined items, and evaluated for each item. The results are shown in Tables 1 to 3 and FIG. FIG. 6 shows a micrograph of the fillet portion. This photograph shows an example in which 15% by weight of powdered Ni was added, and it can be seen that a large amount of the α phase of Ni was crystallized inside and on the surface of the fillet.

[0038]

[Table 1]

[0039]

[Table 2]

[0040]

[Table 3]

[Table 4]

From these results, the following can be understood.
Increasing the amount of powdered Ni increases the amount of voids generated,
If the amount of powdered Ni exceeds 22%, the amount of voids increases sharply. No crack is generated in the fillet portion only by adding 4% of powdered Ni. When the amount of powdered Ni is increased, the α phase of Ni increases, but even when the amount of powdered Ni exceeds 20%, the area occupied by the α phase of Ni hardly increases.

As shown in Table 4, the applicant of the present application
It was confirmed that up to about 2% of the area ratio of the void had little effect on corrosion. For this reason, if the amount of powdered Ni added is 22% or less, the effect of corrosion due to voids can be ignored. When the amount of Ni added is 20
%, The effect of corrosion caused by voids can be completely ignored. In this experiment, an EGR cooler was made of nickel brazing filler metal with various amounts of metal powder added, a cooling water equivalent to poor cooling water containing chlorine ions was flowed into the EGR cooler, and one month later, each part of the EGR cooler was cut out. In addition, the presence of crevice corrosion was confirmed by conducting a microstructure inspection.

This indicates that it is effective to add 4 to 22% by weight of powdered Ni to the nickel brazing material. That is, by adding powder Ni at this ratio, it is possible to suppress the influence of corrosion due to voids, crystallize a sufficient amount of the α phase of Ni, and reduce the occurrence of cracks.

Further, in order to completely eliminate the occurrence of cracks, minimize the effects of voids, and sufficiently crystallize the α phase of Ni, the amount of powdered Ni added is 5% by weight to 20% by weight. It is understood that it is better to set the weight%.

[0045]

As described above, the E according to the present invention is described.
According to GR cooler bonding nickel brazing material, the powdered nickel brazing, Ni, Cr, a metal powder selected out of Ni-Cr alloy 4 wt% to 22 wt%, preferably from 5 wt% to 20 wt Since the nickel brazing material is added, the α-phase is dispersed not only from the interface of the base metal, which is a component of the stainless steel EGR cooler, but also dispersed and crystallized throughout the brazing material phase with the powder metal as a nucleus. The embrittlement phase is not continuously generated in the fillet, so that cracks at the fillet portion can be prevented, and crevice corrosion can be effectively prevented.

Further, since the α phase of Ni excellent in toughness and corrosion resistance is dispersed in the fillet portion and crystallized densely,
It is possible to improve the high-temperature oxidation resistance of the fillet portion at the junction of the GR cooler, to improve the repetitive thermal stress, and to improve the toughness of the junction. In addition, Ni
Crystallization of the embrittlement phase on the surface of the fillet portion is reduced, so that crevice corrosion from the embrittlement phase on the surface can be effectively prevented.
It is possible to effectively prevent crevice corrosion caused by gas, chlorine ions in cooling water and condensed water of exhaust gas. Therefore,
According to the present invention, an EGR cooler having excellent durability can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a halftone image showing a micrograph of a cross section of a brazing fret portion using a conventional nickel brazing material.

FIG. 2 is a graph showing the relationship between the amount of powder added and the brazing characteristics of the nickel brazing filler metal for EGR cooler joining according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a shell of a cooler of an EGR to which the present invention is applied, (1) is a longitudinal sectional view, (2) is a side view from the ii direction, and (3) is iii in (1). It is an enlarged view of a part.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a connection state of test pieces shown in the example of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a three-view drawing showing a connection state of test pieces shown in the example of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a halftone image showing a micrograph of a cross section of a brazing fret portion using a nickel brazing material according to an example of the present invention.

Continuation of the front page (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B23K 35/30 310 B23K 1/00 330 F28D 1/06 F28D 7/16

Claims (7)

(57) [Claims] 1. A nickel brazing material used for joining stainless steel members constituting an EGR cooler, comprising a powdered nickel brazing material, Ni, Cr, Ni-Cr.
Metal powders selected among the alloys of 4 wt% to 22 wt% addition of nickel brazing material. 2. A nickel brazing material used for joining stainless steel members constituting an EGR cooler, comprising a powdered nickel brazing material, Ni, Cr, Ni-Cr.
Adding a metal powder selected out of alloy 5 wt% to 20 wt% nickel brazing material. 3. The nickel brazing material according to claim 1, wherein powdered Ni is added as the metal powder. 4. The nickel brazing material according to claim 1, wherein powdered Cr is added as the metal powder. 5. The nickel brazing material according to claim 1, wherein a powdery Ni—Cr alloy is added as the metal powder. 6. An EGR cooler part made of stainless steel.
Claims 1, 2, and 3 when joining materials
The nickel brazing material according to claim 3, 4, or 5
Manufacturing method of the EGR cooler to be used. 7. The two members made of stainless steel are
Claim 1, Claim 2, Claim 3, Claim 4, or Claim
5. An EGR cooler joined using the nickel brazing material according to 5.
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