US3764298A - Method of melting cast iron - Google Patents
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- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
- C21C1/00—Refining of pig-iron; Cast iron
- C21C1/08—Manufacture of cast-iron
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
- C21C1/00—Refining of pig-iron; Cast iron
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
- C21C1/00—Refining of pig-iron; Cast iron
- C21C1/10—Making spheroidal graphite cast-iron
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- My invention is based on the discovery that small portions of silicon carbide may be added to the bath and will completely prevent the deleterious effects of high superheating temperatures.
- An object of this invention is to provide a means whereby cast iron may be heated to a high pouring temperature, without ill effect.
- a further object is to allow the production of cast iron of normal graphite structure at high superheat temperatures.
- a further object is to improve the fluidity of a cast iron melt.
- a further object is to provide an improved melt for nodular cast iron.
- a further object is to decrease the degree of temperature control necessary in the melting of cast iron.
- FIG. 1 is the structure at 100 diameters of a cast iron heated to 2600 F characterized by normal random graphite and areas of undercooled graphite;
- FIG. 2 is the structure at 100 diameters of the same cast iron heated to a temperature of 2800 F., characterized by undercooled graphite type D and, also, type E of the interdendritic variety;
- FIG. 3 is the structure at 100 diameters of a cast iron which has been heated to 2900" F., after adding onequarter percent silicon carbide. Characterized by normal flake graphite and some undercooled graphite, but no type B, interdendritic undercooled graphite;
- FIG. 4 is the structure at 100 diameters of a cast iron which has been heated to 3000 F. after adding onequarter percent silicon carbide, characterized by normal flake graphite and a very slight tendency to interdendritic graphite;
- FIG. 5 is the chill wedges test on a cast iron heated to from 2600 F. in increments of 100 F. to 3000 F.
- FIG. 6 is the chill wedge test on a cast iron heated after adding one-quarter percent silicon carbide from 2600 F. in increments of F. to 3000 F., showing practically constant chill at all temperatures of superheat.
- undercooled graphite In connection with the undercooled graphite, it appears that undercooled graphite is quite normal in an electric furnace melt, but that the interdendritic or type E graphite, which only seems to occur at or above a temperature of 2750 F., is more harmful as it does not respond completely to subsequent nucleation, which is a common practice to those skilled in the art.
- nodular cast iron In the manufacture of nodular cast iron, it has also been found that a low chill value in the initial bath is extremely desirable. Such a low chill value gives an increased nodule count with better mechanical properties and allows, also, the production of a good nodular graphite cast iron, with normal additions of nodularizing agents such as magnesium and cerium.
- cerium is used as a nodularizing agent
- a high chill bath will produce extremely stable carbides on the addition of cerium and these carbides call for excessively long annealing temperatures in the final castings made from such a bath.
- cast iron baths made in electric furnaces whether they be used for castings containing flake graphite or for castings containing nodular graphite, must be produced with a relatively low chill value for the particular composition of the bath. Allowing the development of higher chill values than those expected from a given composition will lead to inferior metal for the reasons given above.
- FIG. 6 in the specification shows the chill value of a bath of Class 40 cast iron to which one-quarter percent of silicon carbide, in granulated form, was added immediately after melting, but before superheating. Superheating this bath to temperatures as high as 3000 F. did not increase the chill value over what it was at superheating temperatures as low as 2600" F.
- FIG. shows the chill value of the same cast iron but to which no addition was made prior to superheating.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate the structure of a typical Class 40 iron, which was heated to 2600 F. in FIG. 1 and to 2800 F. in FIG. 2. Portions of the bath were cast into test bars, which were subsequently examined for microstructure.
- the structure In the casting of the 2600 F. superheating, illustrated in FIG. 1, the structure consisted of normal random flake graphite, together with some undercooled graphite, which would be typical of such an iron cast in the uninoculated condition from such a superheating temperature.
- FIG. 2 illustrates the same iron Which has been superheated to a higher temperature, namely, 2800 F.
- the structure taken from a representative test bar contains a fairly high proportion of interdendritic graphite, along with normal undercooled graphite.
- the appearance of interdendritic graphite is typical in cast iron melts heated to temperatures in the vicinity of 2800 F.
- FIGS. 3 and 4 represent a similar Class 40" cast iron superheated to temperatures of 2900 F. and 3000 F. respectively.
- an addition of one-quarter percent of granulated silicon carbide was made to the bath immediately after meltdown. Portions of the bath, taken and poured into representative test bars showed that the structure in the case shown in FIG. 3, where the heating temperature was 2900 F., consisted of normal random flake graphite, along with undercooled graphite. At a superheating temperature of 3000- F., shown in FIG. 4, the structure consisted of normal random flake graphite, with only very light traces of interdendritic undercooled graphite.
- silicon carbide is elfective in preventing the formation of interdendritic graphite, even at superheating temperatures as high as 3000 F. Where silicon carbide is not present, these undesirable structures may occur at temperatures as low as 2800 F.
- the amount of silicon carbide necessary to perform the process of my invention may be as little as one-eighth percent by weight of the bath or it can be as high as two percent, or more, by Weight of the bath.
- a method of melting cast iron in an electric furnace at high temperatures consisting essentially of the steps of melting a cast iron charge in the presence of a small but effective amount of silicon carbide and superheating the melt to any desired temperature between about 2750 F. and 3000 -F. whereby said silicon carbide acts to prevent an increase in the chill value of the bath during superheating and to decrease the amount of undercooled graphite in the structure of the cast iron cast from said melt.
- said small but etfective amount of silicon carbide is in the range of from A; of one percent to two percent based on the weight of iron.
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CN112589059A (zh) * | 2020-11-26 | 2021-04-02 | 莱州鸿源台钳制造有限公司 | 一种向浇注包内添加微量碳化硅的铸造方法 |
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Owner name: MEEHANITE WORLDWIDE CORPORATION, SOUTH CAROLINA Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:MEEHANITE METAL CORPORATION, A MO. CORP.;REEL/FRAME:004651/0769 Effective date: 19861212 Owner name: MEEHANITE WORLDWIDE CORPORATION, 112 CAROLINA COVE Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:MEEHANITE METAL CORPORATION, A MO. CORP.;REEL/FRAME:004651/0769 Effective date: 19861212 |