The choice of rational adjustment of the chemical composition of iron melted in an electric arc furnace on the basis of technological audit of serial films
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https://doi.org/10.15587/2706-5448.2024.301259Keywords:
electric arc smelting, chemical composition of cast iron, technological audit, serial smelting, charge materials, ferroalloysAbstract
The object of research in the work is cast iron of the SCh20 grade according to GOST 1412-85 (DSTU EN 1561, EN-GJL-200), which is melted in an electric arc furnace. In this work, the parameters of serial smeltings of cast iron used for machine-building castings were determined, which were used to select the content of elements of the chemical composition.
The existing problem is that the impossibility of taking into account many factors influencing the formation of the chemical composition of cast iron during smelting leads to deviations of the chemical composition from the requirements regulated by the technical conditions. The main reason for this is the uncontrollability of the chemical composition of the charge materials and the difficulty of accurately determining the soot of the elements during the smelting process. This can lead to the formation of a shortage of cast iron, or to excessive costs for smelting, associated with the need for additional technological operations and the use of additional materials to eliminate detected deviations of the composition from the requirements.
The procedure of technological audit of serial smeltings is proposed, the feature of which is a comprehensive assessment of the actual indicators of smelting. They include: mathematical expectations of the content of the elements of the chemical composition, estimates of their dispersions, root mean square deviations, systematic errors, scattering fields and deviations of the lower and upper limits of the content of each element from the lower and upper limits required by the technical conditions. The results of such an audit are the possibility of calculating corrective combinations of charge materials and ferroalloys, which eliminate inaccuracies in the calculation of the charge and the determination of the heat of the elements during the smelting process.
As a result of the audit of a sample of 31 serial smelters, it was established that the average content of the elements C, Mn, Si, Cr exceeds the average required by technical conditions. These deviations are: +0.04 % C, +0.06 % Mn, +0.038 % Si, +0.06 % Cr. To compensate for these deviations, the following combination of charge materials and ferroalloys, which are introduced into the melt before delivering the cast iron to the casting area, is proposed: 44 kg of steel scrap +88 kg of recycled iron.
The presented study will be useful for machine-building enterprises that have foundries in their structure, where iron is melted for the production of castings.
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