US3907547A - Method of preparing vacuum-treated steel for making ingots for forging - Google Patents

Method of preparing vacuum-treated steel for making ingots for forging Download PDF

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US3907547A
US3907547A US454035A US45403574A US3907547A US 3907547 A US3907547 A US 3907547A US 454035 A US454035 A US 454035A US 45403574 A US45403574 A US 45403574A US 3907547 A US3907547 A US 3907547A
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21CPROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C7/00Treating molten ferrous alloys, e.g. steel, not covered by groups C21C1/00 - C21C5/00
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    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21CPROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C5/00Manufacture of carbon-steel, e.g. plain mild steel, medium carbon steel or cast steel or stainless steel
    • C21C5/28Manufacture of steel in the converter
    • C21C5/30Regulating or controlling the blowing
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    • C21CPROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
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  • ABSTRACT A process for preparing a vacuum-treated steel for making forging ingots of great weight and high purity as required for rotors, turbine shafts, inductor shafts and other, usually annealed, large steel parts, which comprises:
  • step 2 Separating said foremetal formed in step 1 from slag and directing an oxygen down-blast onto the surface of said molten metal while maintaining it molten to raise the temperature thereof to a temperature greater than l700C;
  • Field of the Invention is directed to a method of preparing vacuum-treated steel for making forging ingots of great weight and high purity as required for rotors, turbine shafts, inductor shafts, and other, usually annealed, large steel parts.
  • the present invention is directed to preparing relatively pure, vacuum-treated steel having a phosphorus content less than 0.010 weight percent, a carbon content of between 0.10 and 1 weight percent and a sulfur content less than 0.010 weight percent.
  • the present invention is directed to steels in which the sulfur and phosphorus content is kept at a minimum.
  • step 2 Separating said foremetal formed in step 1 form slag and directing an oxygen down-blast onto the surface of said molten metal while maintaining it molten to raise the temperature thereof to a temperature of greater than 1,700C;
  • the present invention has as its object obtaining relatively pure steel whose sulfur and phosphorus contents are both less than 0.010 weight percent for each component. This is done by selecting a usual pig iron stock whose composition can fall within the following range:
  • the pig iron is heated preferably in a mixer to a temperature between l and 1300C. It is subjected to blowing with oxygen in a LD-vessel or the like.
  • the oxygen contacts the surface of the molten raw iron at a lance pressure of between 9 and 12 atm. Generally between 45 and 60 normal liters gas per kilogram of metal contact the raw iron. At the end of this oxygen blowing operation the temperature of the foremetal should not exceed C.
  • a slag composition falling within Table 2 is desirably utilized, al-
  • an alloying element such as nickel and/or molybdenum. If nickel is added, it is added in an amount of between 17 and 40 grams nickel per kilogram of foremetal. If molybdenum is added, it is added in an amount between 4 and 6 grams per kilogram of foremetal.
  • the combined amount of alloying elements added at this stage is between 21 and 46 grams per kilogram of foremetal.
  • the alloying elements added at this stage are those which are inoxidizable under the prevailing conditions and include alloying elements other than nickel and molybdenum.
  • a converter-like vessel which is provided with two different blowing systems.
  • the converter-like vessel there are nozzles which pass laterally through the converter wall close to the bottom, say within about 0.15 to 0.45 meters from the bottom of the vessel. These nozzles are suitable for the injection of controllable mixtures of oxygen and inert gas. Vessels which can be used for this purpose which are provided with such nozzles are known and described, for example, in the Union Carbide Magazine, 33, June 1972, pages 40-45.
  • the vessel is furthermore provided with an oxygen down-blast system.
  • the hot foremetal is passed into the converter-like vessel, there can be added to the metal heat carriers such as carbon and ferrosilicate.
  • the temperature of the foremetal which has been transferred slag-free to the converter-like vessel is raised by virtue of the oxygen down-blast to a temperature of more than l700C.
  • a gas mixture of oxygen with inert gas is simultaneously injected through the lateral nozzles but only to a sufficient extent to keep the nozzles free of the foremetal.
  • the oxygen and oxygen/inert gas mixture treatment of the foremetal in the converter-like vessel between 20 and 60 normal liters oxygen per kilogram of metal pass from the down-blast gas exit.
  • the ratio of oxygen in the down-blast to gas injected laterally is between and 20, preferably between 10 and 12 on a volume basis.
  • the pressure of the gas introduced through the laterally disposed nozzles is between 3 and 7 atmospheres.
  • the pressure is only that amount which is required to keep the nozzles free of the foremetal.
  • the volume ratio of oxygen to onert gas is from 1.5 to 3.0.
  • Silicon dioxide formed by the combustion of silicon is preferably bound by lime (CaO).
  • the oxygen down-blast is shut off and alloying components are added to the molten foremetal on the basis of a sampling.
  • Preferable alloying components used at this stage are those which are easily oxidizable and can contain elements such as chromium, titanium, vanadium, tantalum, niobium, and the like required in the final analysis.
  • the alloying is done on the basis of the assay of the foremetal, between 20 and 30 grams alloying element per kilogram of foremetal are generally introduced depending on the percents by weight of the alloying elements.
  • the injection of the mixture of oxygen and inert gas is intensifled as the alloying elements are mixed with the components of the metal bath.
  • the oxygen to inert gas ratio on a volume basis is between 1.5 and 3.0, preferably 2.25.
  • reducing agents such as aluminium, ferrosilicon and the like are also added to the molten metal. These reducing agents are added in amounts between 0.1 and 1.5 grams reducing agent per kilogram of molten metal. Naturally, the quantity of the reducing agent will depend upon the components of the foremetal.
  • a desulfurizing agent is introduced into the molten metal bath, and then inert gas alone is blown in.
  • Suitable desulfurizing agents for this purpose include lime, especially in powder form or a mixture of about 60 percent by weight CaO, 5 percent CaF 15 percent CaC and 20 percent CaSi.
  • the desulfurizing agent is added to the metal in an amount between 5 and 20 grams desulfurizing agent per kilogram of foremetal.
  • only an inert gas is blown into the molten metal bath in the converter-like vessel. This inert gas enters the bath through the nozzles disposed laterally in the wall of the vessel. Treatment of the molten metal bath by desulfurizing agent and inert gas is continued until the sulfur content of the metal is less than 0.010 weight percent, preferably less than 0.005 weight percent.
  • the steel is subjected to a vacuum treatment once it has attained a sulfur content of less than 0.010 weight percent.
  • the vacuum treatment can be any one of a number of known conventional vacuum treatment methods, preferably, the falling stream degassing process.
  • the vacuum treatment is generally carried out using pressures of between 0.1 and 3.0 Torr and temperatures between l650 and l600C.
  • the molten metal is teemed, the teeming temperature (measured in the teeming stream) being between l540 and lS50C.
  • Steels made by the above-described process can generally contain 0.05 to 0.50 weight percent carbon, 0 to 2.8 weight percent chromium, 0 to 4.0 weight percent nickel, 0 to 1.5 weight percent molybdenum and 0 to 0.5 weight percent silicon.
  • Preferred steels made by the process of the invention have chromium present in an amount between 0.5 and 2.8 weight percent.
  • a steel having a nickel content of 0.5 to 4.0 weight percent is particularly preferred.
  • the inert gas is argon or nitrogen, although virtually all inert gases are useful.
  • EXAMPLE 60 metric ton ingot, quality NiCrMoV/So
  • 70 tons of raw iron of the following analysis were blown: 4.3% C; 0.9l% Si; 0.65% Mn; 0.140% P; 0.039% S; 0.20% Cr, with the addition of 65kg/t of CaO, 17 kg/t of fluorspar, kg/t of ore, 2l kg/t of nickel and 5 kg/t of ferromolybdenum, to form a foremetal with the following values:
  • the steel was vacuum treated in a ladle-t0-ladlepouring-stream-degassing process. Temperature before degassing: 1650C; temperature after degassing: l580C, measured in each case at the top of the ladle.
  • the steel was poured at pouring stream temperatures .of 1540 to l550C to form a 60-ton bloom by filling the ingot mold from the top. The temperature would also have permitted to fill the ingot mold by pouring the .steel through the bottom via runner bricks.
  • stream degassing ladle-to-ladle or ladle-to- A.
  • step B Separating said foremetal formed from step A from said slag and directing an oxygen down-blast onto the surface of said molten metal while maintaining it molten to raise the temperature thereof to a temperature of greater than 1700C;
  • said pig iron has a content of up to 4.3 weight percent carbon, up to 1.5 weight percent silicon, up to 1.5 weight percent manganese, 0.10 to 2.0 weight percent phosphorus, 0.040 to 0.060 weight percent sulfur, the remainder iron and the usual impurities.
  • step A subsequent to step A and prior to directing said oxygen down-blast into the surface of said molten metal, there is added to said molten metal an alloying element which is non-oxidizable under the prevailing conditions.
  • said alloying agent is one having an element selected from the group consisting of chromium, manganese, titanium, vanadium, tantalum and niobium.

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