Thermodynamic analysis of the coupling reaction of manganese, silicon, magnesium, calcium, aluminum with oxygen in the boron-containing melt based on iron

Authors

  • G. G. Mikhailov South Ural State University
  • L. A. Makrovets South Ural State University
  • L. A. Smirnov Ural Institute of Metals, Yekaterinburg

Keywords:

thermodynamics, deoxidation, refinement, boron

Abstract

The thermodynamic analysis of the interaction of boron dissolved in liquid steel with components of metal melt, such as oxygen, aluminium, calcium, magnesium and carbon is carried out. The authors managed to develop a technique of drawing component solubility surfaces in liquid boron-bearing steel based on calculations of liquidus lines and surfaces for binary and ternary oxide phase diagrams with B2O3. It was established that manganese and silicon can not block oxidation of boron introduced into steel. In this case boron interacting with oxygen, manganese and silicon forms liquid oxide (slag) non-metallic inclusions. Calcium is not an effective protector of boron. Addition of alloys containing aluminium and magnesium can prevent oxidation of the introduced boron and thus enables to stabilize the production technology of boron-modified steels. With one thousandth of percent of aluminium and magnesium the possibility of boron dissolved in steel with retained oxygen is excluded. In order to retain a sufficient amount of “effective boron” in steel it is necessary to develop an effective system of denitration of steel by introducing nitride forming elements and vacuum degassing.

References

Еланский, Г.Н. Сталь и периодическая система элементов Д.И. Менделеева: учеб. пособие для вузов по направлению «Металлургия» / Г.Н. Еланский. – М.: МГВМИ, 2012 – 196 с.

Михайлов, Г.Г. Термодинамическое моделирование фазовых равновесий в оксидных системах, содержащих B2O3 / Г.Г. Михайлов, Л.А. Макровец, Л.А. Смирнов // Вестник ЮУрГУ. Серия «Металлургия». – 2014. – № 14 (4). – С. 11–16.

Михайлов, Г.Г. Термодинамика металлургических процессов и систем / Г.Г. Михайлов, Б.И. Леонович, Ю.С. Кузнецов. – М.: Издат. Дом МИСИС. – 2009. – 519 с.

Потапов, А.И. Исследование процессов микролегирования стали бором с целью совершенствования технологии производства борсодержащей стали: автореф. дис. … канд. техн. наук / А.И. Потапов. – М.: МИСиС, 2013. – 27 с.

Влияние химического состава и режима аустенизации на прокаливаемость стали 35ГР / А.И. Потапов, И.Т. Маликов, В.И. Уразов, А.Г. Сёмин // Электрометаллургия, 2009. – № 11. – С. 37–40.

Issue

Section

Physical Chemistry and Physics of Metallurgical Systems