The CaZrO3 complex oxide ceramic was synthesized in the development
of the potential refractory for melting of titanium alloy, the crucible ( 40XH40mm)
was prepared by the solid sintering of mixture of powder (CaO:ZrO2 =1:1) with a
small amount of TiO2 as additive at 1750°C. The melting of TiNi and Ti6Al4V was
carried out in the inducting furnace under vacuum or/and Ar atmosphere. The
interfacial reaction between the melts of alloys and CaZrO3 refractory was
investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray
spectroscopy (EDS). It is found that, the thickness of interfacial reaction layer
between the ceramic CaZrO3 and the melt of titanium alloys (TiNi and Ti6Al4V) is
approximately 30-300 μm, there are few elements such as Ca, Zr, Ti, and Ni diffused
through the interfacial reaction layer. These results may provide the basement to
designing a novel refractory for melting of titanium alloys.
In this work, several thermodynamic assessments adopted widely for ZrO2–CaO system are reviewed and examined, the existing discrepancies are summarized, and a new assessment is carried out based on the formation enthalpy of two compounds (CaZr4O9 and Ca6Zr19O44) and experimental activity data concerning cubic solid solution. The thermodynamic parameters of all phases have been optimized by the least squares minimization procedure, a self consistent set of the optimized Gibbs energy parameters has been derived, which can be safely used to extrapolate into the multicomponent system. Compared with experimental data and the results in this work as well as the results reported previously, it is demonstrated that the present thermodynamic assessment is in better agreement with most of the experiments.
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