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US3484280A
US3484280A US628356A US3484280DA US3484280A US 3484280 A US3484280 A US 3484280A US 628356 A US628356 A US 628356A US 3484280D A US3484280D A US 3484280DA US 3484280 A US3484280 A US 3484280A
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  • an elongated body such as a metal rod is typically pretreated by passing it through a straightener, a surface cleaning apparatus, and then through a vacuum entrance chamber positioned below or at the bottom of a crucible containing a bath of molten material.
  • a continuous elongated core or body is passed upwardly through the molten bath, which bath may have the same chemical composition as that of the core or a different composition.
  • the molten material in the crucible accretes or deposits upon the outer surface of the core thereby increasing its crosssectional area appreciably.
  • the resulting cast member After emerging from the crucible, the resulting cast member is cooled as by a water spray from one or more jet nozzles at least sufficiently so that the cast member can be rolled or worked. From there, the cast member may be passed through a suitable roll mechanism where it is reduced in cross-sectional area and then passed to a suitable receiving means such as a take-up reel.
  • the quality of the copper rod cast by the dip-forming process is influenced to a large extent by the gases dissolved in the molten copper, which are dependent upon the composition of the atmosphere in contact with the molten metal.
  • gas evolution results from the presence of excessive oxygen and/or hydrogen in the melt.
  • the problem of gas contamination in the dipforming process has been previously recognized, and in one aspect formed the basis of U.S. Patent No. 3,060,053 to Carreker and Parke and assigned to the assignee of this invention.
  • oxygen and hydrogen present in the atmosphere above the molten-metal can be dissolved by and/ or react with the motlen material. Oxygen may cause the formation of undesirable oxides. It is recognized that copper having an oxygen content greater than approximately 20 parts per million results in progressive deterioration in casting quality. Also, the presence of hydrogen alone, or hydrogen and oxygen concurrently, in molten metal in sufficient amounts will cause formation of gas bubbles upon solidifcation of the accreted material on the cast member.
  • oxides, gas bubbles and/ or voids not only adversely affects the quality of the product, but also deleteriously affects the uniform accretion of molten material onto the core by creating regions of relatively poor thermal conductivity within a mass of relatively good thermal conductivity.
  • oxygen and hydrogen is not confined to the oxide phases and bubbles they create,
  • Bubbles, voids, oxide phases, internal discontinuities, and irregular accretion are all undesirable in that they promote or cause the formation of cracks and fissures when stresses are imposed, as by bending, rolling, drawing or the like. A product manifesting such defects is generally not acceptable.
  • the oxygen content in the molten metal is reduced to a very low amount by utilizing graphite or comparable reducing means which will unite with the oxygen in the molten metal to form a gaseous product which escapes from the molten copper.
  • an inert atmosphere such as nitrogen is maintained above the surface of the melt to protect the melt from the air.
  • Such a furnace system will produce satisfactorily low oxygen content copper for use with dip-forming, if the furnace system is free of substantial air leaks and is allowed to come to substantial equilibrium.
  • air leaks may be expected in a large industrial furnace, particularly under charging conditions, and long residence times for equilibration are not realized.
  • Carbon monoxide is another reducing gas, but it is insoluble in molten copper and can react with the melt only at its surface. Therefore, carbon monoxide is relatively slow in reducing the oxygen content in a relatively deep melt. Further, strongly reducing atmospheres harmfully affect silicon carbide heating elements in that such atmospheres cause the formation of volatile silicon monoxide, which results in the eventual distintegration of the heating element.
  • the purpose of this invention is to provide a controlled reducing atmosphere above the molten copper which is sufficiently reducing to maintain the oxygen in the molten copper at less than approximately 20 parts per million, yet sufficiently oxidizing to avoid substantial erosion or attack of silicon carbide furnace elements employed in the system, and sufiiciently low in hydrogen to avoid evolution of hydrogen bubbles during solidification in the dip-forming process.
  • molten copper from a melting furnace is supplied to a crucible through which a continuous, elongated core rod is passed, whereby molten metal deposits or accretes to the rod.
  • a reducing atmosphere comprising 1 to 10 percent by volume hydrogen, 1 to 10 percent carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, the ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide being from about 2:1 to 1:20, and the balance being an inert diluent such as nitrogen is maintained above the molten metal.
  • FIGURE 1 is a perspective view partially in section of an apparatus for practicing the present invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a graph showing the solubility of hydrogen in copper.
  • core rod is supplied to a drawing apparatus 12 located adjacent a suitable shaving apparatus 14 which shaves a thin layer of metal from the periphery of the rod to remove the oxide coating and other surface contaminants therefrom.
  • a suitable shaving apparatus 14 which shaves a thin layer of metal from the periphery of the rod to remove the oxide coating and other surface contaminants therefrom.
  • other cleaning means such as chemical cleaning means, may be utilized for removing the oxide coating and cleaning the surface of the rod.
  • the rod is passed through a suitable drive means, including capstan 15 and drive rolls 16 contained in housing 18, and from there into tube 20.
  • Members 12, 14, 18 and 20 are sealed and interconnected to a suitable passageway, and tube 20 has connected thereto exhaust tube 22 and evacuating pump 24 to maintain a vacuum in the passageway.
  • Entry port member or nozzle 26 is mounted in the upper end of tube 20 and extends into crucible 28 which is maintained at the desired elevated temperature by suitable heating means such as electric induction heater 30.
  • Core lrod 10 is fed through nozzle 2-6 and into crucible 28 Where the rod comes into contact with the molten copper which accretes to the rod, as described hereinafter in greater detail.
  • Molten copper is supplied to crucible 28 from melting ifurnace indicated generally by the numeral 32, which is heated by a plurality of silicon carbide electric radiant heaters 34.
  • Cathode copper plates 35, or other suitable feed material of low oxygen content, is supplied to the furnace 32 by any suitable means such as a mechanical drive means (not shown).
  • the furnace is provided with a sloping or inclined section 36 and an integral horizontal section 38.
  • the cathode copper plates are charged to section 36 of the furnace through a dapper-type door (not shown) and melted gradually on the incline as they pass to the horizontal section 38 where a pool of molten metal collects.
  • the molten metal flows by displacement over a Weir 40 into a level control section 42 of the furnace.
  • a suitable liquid level sensing control indicated generally by the reference numeral 44, which is com- -monly employed in the art, controls subsurface flow through passageway 45 into dip-forming crucible 28.
  • An electric probe 46 in the crucible senses the bath level and automatically regulates the level sensing control to maintain a constant level in the crucible.
  • Copper supplied to the furnace may contain an undesirably high oxygen content, or air may leak to the furnace such as through the entranceway to the furnace through which the copper is charged. For this reason, it is necessary to maintain a controlled reducing atmosphere above the molten metal.
  • the reducing atmosphere is supplied to the furnace through line 48 from a suitable source (not shown).
  • the reducingr atmosphere lowers the oxygen content of the copper to less than 20 parts per million and maintains this low level.
  • the molten copper fed to the dip-forming crucible has this low oxygen content, and further does not contain sufficient hydrogen to cause hydrogen bubble formation during soliditication.
  • an atmosphere of an inert gas such as nitrogen is maintained above the molten metal in the crucible which may be supplied to the crucible through line 49 from source 50.
  • an inert gas such as nitrogen
  • An elongated tube 52 extends upwardly from crucible 28, and the resulting cast rod having copper accreted thereto is passed out of the crucible to the extension tube.
  • the cast rod emerging from the crucible and extension tube is at a relatively high temperature and is cooled somewhat by cooling means 54, such as a water spray nozzle, before the rod is passed through direction changing rolls 56. From there the cast rod is directed to a suitable rolling mill and coiling apparatus (not shown) and to a storage area as desired.
  • cooling means 54 such as a water spray nozzle
  • the reducing atmosphere supplied to the furnace comprises about 1 to 10 percent by volume hydrogen, 1 to 10 percent by volume carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, the ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide being from about 2:1 to 1:20, and the balance being nitrogen or another suitable inert diluent.
  • the reducing gases of the atmosphere that is, the hydrogen and carbon monoxide, react with the oxygen present in the molten metal thereby reducing the oxygen content to less than 2() parts per million.
  • the oxidizing tendency of the atmosphere at a given temperature is specified by the ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide or by the ratio of water vapor to hydrogen; specifying either one of these ratios specifies the other, at equilibrium, according to the chemical Equation 1 Coz-l-HzCO +H2O 1
  • Equation 2 The oxygen content of the molten copper, at equilibrium is governed by Equation 2.
  • Equation 6 K2[O2]1/2 (4) per million is related to the ratio of CO2 to CO in the atmosphere by Equation 6.
  • the oxygen content of the molten copper in parts per million may be said to be about ten times the ratio of per cent carbon dioxide to percent carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, at equilibrium.
  • the presence of hydrogen offers more complete assurance against oxidation.
  • Hydrogen is soluble in molten copper, and the amount dissolved is related to the hydrogen content in the atmosphere above the molten metal and to the temperature.
  • Solid copper at its melting point of 1083o C. can retain up to 1.7 parts per million of hydrgen in solid solution in equilibrium with a hydrogen pressure of 1.0 atmosphere, If the melt contains more than 1.7 parts per million hydrogen, hydrogen gas will be rejected as bubbles during cooling or solidication, thereby causing porosity in the solidified metal.
  • the hydrogen content in the furnace atmosphere above the melt is such that the molten metal can absorb no more than the solid solubility limit of 1.7 parts per million. In this manner there will be no rejection of hydrogen during solidification and therefore no hydrogen bubble formation.
  • the ambient temperature in the furnace may range from about the melting point of -copper (l083 C.) to about 1300 C., and
  • FIG- URE 2 illustrates graphically the quantitative relationship between percent hydrogen in the atmosphere and the amount which can be dissolved in liquid copper at several temperatures.
  • the dissolved hydrogen in parts per million is plotted as the abscissa and the percent hydrogen in the atmosphere as the ordinate. From the graph, it can be seen that the percent hydrogen in the atmosphere should not exceed about l percent by volume at the melting temperature of 1083 C., or about 7 percent at 1200 C., in order to avoid formation of hydrogen bubbles.
  • the hydrogen content in the atmosphere above the melt should range from about 2 to 5 percent.
  • the combination of hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere in controlled amounts offers the desired reduction in oxygen content and further avoids any adverse results where only one gas is used.
  • the carbon monoxide content will range from about 1 to l0 percent by volume, and a ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide is from about 2:1 to 1:20.
  • the carbon monoxide content is from about 4 to 8 percent 4by volume, and the ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide is from about 1:2 to 1:10.
  • carbon monoxide does not penetrate the melt and therefore reacts with the oxygen at or near the surface of the melt only.
  • hydrogen dissolves readily in the molten copper and will react with the oxygen deep in the bath.
  • carbon monoxide alone will attack the silicon carbide heating elements, and to avoid this a controlled amount of carbon dioxide is included in the atmosphere.
  • the ratio of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide is particularly important. If the ratio is too low (i.e., the carbon dioxide content is high), the atmosphere will not be sutciently reducing to deoxidize the copper. If, on the other hand, the ratio is too high, the excessive reducing atmosphere will attack the silicon carbide heating elements.
  • copper rod was formed by passing a copper core rod having a diameter of 0.38 inch through a molten bath of copper contained in a crucible.
  • the molten copper was supplied to the crucible through an integrally connected spout extending from a refractory-lined melting furnace which was heated by a plurality of silicon carbide electric radiant heaters, as described above.
  • a reducing atmosphere was maintained over the molten copper in the furnace which comprised 5 percent hydrogen, 7 percent carbon monoxide, 0.7 percent carbon dioxide and the balance nitrogen, all percentages being by volume.
  • a protective atmosphere of nitrogen was maintained above the molten copper in the crucible.
  • the resulting cast rod exhibited high quality being substantially free from irregularities and contamination, and upon analysis showed an oxygen content of about 5 parts per million.
  • the reducing atmosphere maintained above the molten copper in the furnace comprised 13 percent hydrogen, 10 percent carbon monoxide, 1 percent carbon dioxide and the balance nitrogen, all percentages being by volume.
  • the resulting cast rod from this second run had a low oxygen content of 3 parts per million, but nevertheless was a poor quality exhibiting lhigh porosity resulting from hydrogen evolution.
  • a method of accreting copper onto a core rod comprising supplying to a crucible a melt of molten copper from a melting furnace, passing said core rod through the molten copper contained in said crucible to accrete copper thereon and removing the resulting cast rod from said crucible, the improvement comprising: maintaining above said melt in the melting furnace an atmosphere comprising from about 1 to 10 percent by volume hydrogen, about 1 to 10 percent by volume carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, the ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide being from about 2:1 to 1:20, and the balance being an inert diluent, whereby the oxygen content in said melt is maintained at less than approximately 20 parts per million.
  • a method of accreting copper onto a core -rod comprising supplying to a crucible a melt of molten copper from a melting furnace, passing said core rod through the molten copper contained in said crucible to accrete copper thereon and removing the resulting larger cast rod from said crucible, the improvement comprising: maintaining above said melt in the melting furnace an atmosphere comprising from about 2 to 5 percent by volume hydrogen, about 4 to 8 percent by volume carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, the ratio of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide being from about 1:2 to 10:1, and the balance being nitrogen, whereby the oxygen content in said melt is maintained at less than approximately 20 parts per million.

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