Archives of Foundry Engineering

A study of the effect of holding the cast iron melt at temperatures of 1,300, 1,450 and 1,600 °C for 20, 55 and 90 minutes on the structure and properties of cast iron in a liquid state and after crystallization was carried out. The studies were carried out on samples with a diameter of 30 mm; cast iron containing 3.61–3.75 % carbon, 1.9–2.4 % silicon, 0.03 % manganese, 0.081–0.084 % phosphorus, 0.031–0.039 % sulfur was poured into green-sand molds. The samples were cast from the original cast iron (unmodified), modified with ferrosilicon 75 GOST 1415-93 (FS75), rare-earth metals (REM) and together with the REM+FS75 complex. The structure of cast iron was investigated by optical metallography, electron microscopy and X-ray structural analysis. An increase in the holding temperature and time of the cast iron melt leads to an increase in its hardness. An increase in temperature at a short holding time leads to an increase in strength in the entire investigated temperature range (1,300–1,600 °С). Holding for 90 minutes at a temperature of 1,450 °C corresponds to an extremum, after which, with a further increase in temperature, a sharp drop in strength is observed. The change in the toughness of cast iron is characterized in a similar way

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The Importance of TDA Thermal Analysis in an Automated Metallurgical Process

Petrus¹,

Bulanowski²,

Kołakowski³

et al. 2021

JCME

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The article presents the results of research and work related to the implementation of the research and development project POIR.01.01.01-00-0120/17 co-financed by the EU, through the NCBR, entitled: Innovative technology using thermal analysis, TDA, of self-feeding manufacturing of high-quality cast iron to produce new generation, enhanced performance casts. In many foundries, thermal derivative analysis (TDA) is used in addition to chemical analysis to evaluate the physical and chemical properties of an alloy while it is still in the melting furnace or ladle and before it is poured into the mold. This fact makes it possible to improve the metallurgical quality of the alloy by introducing alloying additives, carburizers or modifiers into the furnace as part of the pre-modification or primary or secondary modification in the ladle or when pouring into molds. Foundry machinery (modifier dosing systems and spheroidizing station) is very important in these operations. Only the full synergy of modern equipment with modern technology ensures high quality and repeatability of the casting process. The article mainly discusses the obtained parameters of TDA analysis (with the use of the ITACA system) at different stages of melting and how to improve them by using modern and fully automated dosing systems (Itaca OptiDose, ItacaWire and ItacaStream). Special attention was paid to the minimum temperature of the eutectoid. The change of its value after the modification process, its influence on the quality of the melted metal, a very strong correlation with the number of nuclei and the number of graphite precipitations in the casts were shown.

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Developing optimum melt charge calculation model for ferro alloys of required composition

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The Importance of TDA Thermal Analysis in an Automated Metallurgical Process

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