A STUDY OF OXYGEN ACTIVITIES BEFORE THE START OF SOLIDIFICATION OF CAST IRONS

• Focus in this work was to study dissolved oxygen content and oxygen activities in different cast irons. Plant trials were performed at three occasions for lamellar, compacted and nodular iron melts. The results show that at temperatures close to the liquidus temperature the oxygen activities ranged from 0.03-0.1 ppm for LGI, around 0.02 ppm for CGI and 0.001ppm for SGI. In addition, it was found that as oxygen activities increase with time after an Mg treatment, the ability to form compacted graphite or nodular graphite in Mg-treated iron melts was lowered. Also, oxygen activity differences up to 0.07 ppm were found for different hypoeutectic iron compositions for lamellar graphite iron at the liquidus temperature. Overall, the observed differences in the dissolved oxygen levels are believed to influence how graphite particles are incorporated into the austenite matrix and how the graphite morphology will be in the cast product.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Materialteknik -- Metallurgi och metalliska material (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Materials Engineering -- Metallurgy and Metallic Materials (hsv//eng)

Keyword

austenite

primary dendrite

lamellar graphite

compacted graphite

nodular graphite

oxygen

Production Engineering

Industriell produktion

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)