La、Ce对球铁球化率、白口和缩松倾向的影响

A New Method for Chill and Shrinkage Control in Ladle Treated Ductile Iron

能否抑制碳化物形成与球化剂和孕育剂的成核性能相关。成核性能可以理解为由于加入变质剂而形成的核心数量以及核心的效力。球化剂和孕育剂的加入也会影响球铁凝固时的缩松倾向。一些球化剂和孕育剂能较好地防止缩松,而有些球化剂和孕育剂则促进缩松的形成。已经发现,使用不同的稀土元素对这种情况有明显影响。与使用含铈或含混合稀土的球化剂相比,使用加有纯镧的硅铁镁合金作为包内处理球化剂时,球铁的工艺性能得到令人惊奇的改善。成核性能明显改善,因而采用三明治法和盖包法进行球化处理时的白口和缩松倾向减小。

The present paper is undertaken with the objective of describing a new method for treating ductile cast iron in a ladle process, where the main objective is to minimize formation of eutectic carbides and shrinkage porosity during solidification. The suppression of carbide formation is associated with the nucleating properties of the nodularizer and inoculant alloys. By nucleating properties it is understood the number and potency of nuclei formed by an alloy addition. The nodularizer and inoculant additions also influence ductile iron solidification shrinkage. Some alloys may give good protection against shrinkage while others tend to promote more shrinkage. The use of various rare earth elements is found to have a pronounced impact on these conditions. It has been discovered that the use of pure lanthanum as the primary rare earth source in the magnesium fen：osilicon nodularizer surprisingly further improves the performance of the ductile iron ladle treatment method compared to similar methods using cerium or mish metal bearing nodularizers. The nucleating properties are substantially improved and the risk for carbides （chill） and shrinkage formation in the sandwich or tundish ladle treated ductile iron is then minimized.