CN104988342A - Zirconium alloy melting and casting method - Google Patents

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CN104988342A
CN104988342A CN201510458819.7A CN201510458819A CN104988342A CN 104988342 A CN104988342 A CN 104988342A CN 201510458819 A CN201510458819 A CN 201510458819A CN 104988342 A CN104988342 A CN 104988342A
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A zirconium alloy melting and casting method comprises the following steps: 1, carrying out primary melting: carrying out sampling analysis on components of a zirconium alloy ingot to determine needed alloy elements; 2, carrying out secondary melting: adjusting alloy components, and stirring to make components of zirconium alloy melt uniform; 3, preparing a purifying technology through preheating a filtering medium-embedded runner to 1000-1200DEG C, and preparing an ingot casting die through cleaning the surface of the ingot casting die to realize no adhesion of impurities or oil stains; and 4, casting and purifying: pouring the molten zirconium alloy melt into the runner, allowing the zirconium alloy melt to go through the filtering medium in order to make impurities in the alloy melt intercepted and adsorbed by the filtering medium and clean zirconium alloy melt to enter the ingot casting die, and cooling to form a cast ingot. The method has the advantages of simple operation, low energy consumption and good purification effect.

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A kind of zirconium alloy melting and casting process
Technical field
The present invention relates to zirconium alloy melting and casting process.
Background technology
At present, the content of zirconium in the earth's crust is very abundant, occupies the 20th by abundance, the characteristics such as the improved corrosion performance of metal zirconium and high fusing point (1860 DEG C), is the new structural material having application potential in aerospace and boats and ships and nuclear power field.Zirconium is close-packed hexagonal structure when room temperature, be called a phase, its distinguishing feature is that room temperature tensile intensity is very low, less than 400MPa, cannot meet the requirement of structured material to mechanical property, therefore, except being applied in nuclear industry, seldom apply as structured material at other engineering field, so far rarely found report, there is allotropic transformation in α-Zr, change body-centred cubic β-Zr into 865 DEG C time.Range of application along with Other Engineering material starts to occur limitation, and because zirconium alloy has mechanics and the corrosion resistance of its uniqueness, zirconium alloy starts the visual field entering engineering field.Publication number be the patent of CN102260807A by consumable electroarc furnace method melting zirconium alloy, exist melting often, consume energy large defect.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention be to provide a kind of easy and simple to handle, energy consumption is lower, the better zirconium alloy melting of decontamination effect improving and casting process.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the invention provides a kind of zirconium alloy melting and casting process, comprising the following steps:
Step one, melting once, the zirconium alloy returns of the identical trade mark are put into the crucible of vacuum melting furnace, vacuum tightness is 0.001-0.1Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature is 1000-1500 DEG C, and smelting time is 30-60 minute, after zirconium alloy melts completely, pour in the filter plant being embedded with filtration medium and cast; After ingot casting cooling, open vacuum oven, take out ingot formation, the exterior skin of alloy is disposed 1-2 millimeter, then the composition of sampling analysis zirconium alloy ingot casting, according to the requirement of alloy designations, calculating composition deviation, determines the alloying element needing to supplement;
Step 2, secondary smelting, adjustment alloying constituent, by the various alloying element simple substance of alloying element deviation that makes up or master alloy, together put into vacuum melting furnace with the zirconium alloy ingot casting of melting once, vacuum tightness is 0.001-0.1Pa, then abundant dried argon gas is filled with, smelting temperature 1000 ~ 1500 DEG C, smelting time is 30 ~ 60 minutes, stirs and makes the component of zirconium alloy melt even;
Step 3, purification process prepares, and the running channel being embedded with filtration medium is preheating to 1000-1200 DEG C; Ingot mould prepares, and ingot mould removing surface is clean, does not have impurity and greasy dirt attachment;
Step 4, casting and purification, pour in running channel by the zirconium alloy melt of melting, and zirconium alloy melt is by filtration medium, and the impurity in its alloy melt is filtered medium interception and absorption, and clean zirconium alloy melt flow in ingot mould, and cooling forms ingot casting.
As optimal way, described running channel and filtration medium are formed by contact material, and described contact material is made up of ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer, and described ceramic powder is by MgO and ZrO 26-12:100 composition in molar ratio, strengthen stablizer by weight the 0.5%-1% being ceramic powder, described enhancing stablizer is cerium-rich rare earth.
As optimal way, the preparation method of described contact material comprises the following steps:
Step 1, mixes ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer;
Step 2, wet ball grinding 20-24 hour, 80-100 DEG C crushed after being dried;
Step 3, calcines 1.5-6 hour at 1400-1450 DEG C, cooling, pulverizes;
Step 4, crushed after being dried, screening at wet ball grinding 24-48 hour, 80-100 DEG C.
As optimal way, the preparation method of described filtration medium comprises the following steps:
Step 1, pre-treatment, it is in the NaOH solution of 10% ~ 20% that three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton is immersed concentration, at 40 ~ 60 DEG C of temperature, be hydrolyzed 2 ~ 4h, then repeatedly rubs and dries with after clear water flushing presoma, thus cleaning up sponge;
Step 2, slurrying, first progressively polyvinyl alcohol is added in water, until the viscosity of polyethylene alcohol and water be 40-50CPS and pH value at 5-7, aqueous temperature controls at 40-50 DEG C, stir, add defoamer simultaneously, 200 orders and 400 order contact materials are poured in above-mentioned solution according to the weight ratio of 3:1, stirs, obtain slurry, the weight of 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials accounts for the 75-85% of slurry weight;
Step 3, is coated with, and three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton step 1 obtained is immersed in the slurry that step 2 obtains, and fully discharges the gas in skeleton, makes its surface and inner homogeneous be coated with spreading mass, pulls out;
Step 4, naturally dry in the shade and dry, being positioned over shady and cool ventilation place by what be coated with three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton, carrying out process of drying in the shade, dry in the shade 4-48 hour, make the work in-process to be dried of porcelain filter, the filtration medium work in-process after drying in the shade are put into stoving oven and dries, the heat-up rate of stoving oven is 0.5-5 DEG C/min, be warmed up to 90-120 DEG C, insulation 1-2 hour, then furnace cooling, make the work in-process to be sintered of filtration medium;
Step 5, sintering, namely the cold zone below 500 DEG C, in more than 500 DEG C to 1200 DEG C ~ 1570 DEG C warm area and 1570 DEG C high-temperature zone in sinter, when sintering in cold zone, less than 200 DEG C heat-up rates are 2-5 DEG C/min, more than 200 DEG C to 400 DEG C heat-up rates are 1-3 DEG C/min, be incubated 30 minutes, be then warmed up to 500 DEG C with the speed of 3 DEG C/min when rising to 400 DEG C; When sintering in middle warm area, more than 500 DEG C to 1150 DEG C, speed is 4-5 DEG C/min; 1150 DEG C to 1570 DEG C, heat-up rate controls at 3-4 DEG C/min and is incubated 1 hour at 1300 DEG C by this stage; When sintering in high-temperature zone, at 1570 DEG C of insulations 6-10 hour, then furnace cooling, make filtration medium.
As optimal way, in described step 2, the rotating speed stirring polyethylene alcohol and water is 70 ~ 100 revs/min.
As optimal way, in described step 2, the speed stirred after adding contact material is 80-150 rev/min.
As optimal way, in described step 2, defoamer accounts for 0.1% ~ 1% of polyethylene alcohol and water gross weight.
As optimal way, the preparation method being embedded with the described running channel of filtration medium comprises the following steps:
Step 1, make aluminum dipping form, make two aluminum dipping forms that are symmetrical, that mate with the hollow part in running channel;
Step 2, casting, open aluminum dipping form, filtration medium put into the position that aluminum dipping form is corresponding with filter cavity, casting after the aluminum dipping form that closes, and makes wax be full of aluminum dipping form inside and filtration medium;
Step 3, hanging sand, after wax solidifies, open aluminum dipping form and take out the wax-pattern with filtration medium, blowing the wax on surface, wax melting mould filtration medium place, until filtration medium is exposed on wax-pattern surface, be repeatedly coated with contact material on wax-pattern surface until desired thickness drying in the shade 4 ~ 128 hours;
Step 4, wax melting, product step 3 obtained puts into hot water, and wax melts disengaging in the process, dries in the shade 8 ~ 24 hours after pulling out;
Step 5, sintering, the product that sintering step 4 obtains at 1050 ~ 1250 DEG C is also incubated 30min ~ 2h, and contact material sinters shell into, and filtration medium embeds in shell, obtains the running channel with filtration medium.
As optimal way, in step 3, when wax-pattern surface is coated with contact material, be first coated with 400 object contact materials, then on 400 object contact materials, be coated with 200 object contact materials.
The melting of this zirconium alloy and casting process compared with prior art tool have the following advantages: step is simple, decreases melting number of times than consumable electroarc furnace method, save energy consumption; Being mingled with of zirconium alloy is few, and the content of the impurity elements such as O, S, P, N, C is extremely low, improves the structure of alloy, improves the mechanical property of alloy; Compared with mother alloy, obviously do not distinguish, the degradation reducing zirconium alloy uses, and improves economic results in society, achieves the object recycled.
Further, running channel and filtration medium are made by contact material, and contact material adopts ZrO 2as material of main part to avoid reacting, at ZrO with zirconium alloy 2middle interpolation MgO and cerium-rich rare earth, drawn by the preparation of the operation such as wet ball grinding, calcining, MgO and cerium-rich rare earth add and above-mentioned process is conducive to stable crystal form, obtain stable tetragonal structure ZrO 2, avoid pure ZrO 2the volume change caused because of crystal conversion and heat effect, thus ensure its performance.Except zirconium alloy, this contact material and filtration medium also can be used for purifying the activity metal or alloy lower than zirconium.
Further, preparation the method for the present invention's filtration medium used utilizes three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge as skeleton, be coated with slurry at skeleton and obtain filtration medium through oven dry and sintering procedure, by the filtration medium selecting the three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge of different aperture density to prepare different aperture density as skeleton, thus the impurity of interception different size; By controlling the heat-up rate of sintering, completing stress relieving and avoiding hair line, there is good normal temperature strength and hot strength, the temperature variation in scavenging process can be adapted to, ensureing decontamination effect improving.
Further, the present invention's running channel used utilizes above-mentioned contact material and purification medium to make, the preparation method of running channel makes full use of the feature that filter media surface is covered with hole, by making aluminum dipping form, filtration medium is put into aluminum dipping form and casting formation wax-pattern, also form running channel in filter media surface hanging sand on wax-pattern surface simultaneously, wax melting and sinter shell into, filtration medium embeds in running channel in the process, thus prepare integrated running channel, filtration medium embeds in running channel and can ensure that all zirconium alloy melts are all filtered medium interception without dead angle, improve decontamination effect improving.
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Fig. 1 is the sectional view of filter plant.
Fig. 2 is the stereographic map of filtration medium.
Fig. 3 is the front sectional view of multilayer crucible.
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Fig. 1 is the sectional view of filter plant.
Fig. 2 is the stereographic map of filtration medium.
Embodiment
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is to provide a kind of can avoiding in zirconium alloy founding and scavenging process and reacts and contact material polluting zirconium alloy and preparation method thereof with zirconium alloy, additionally provides the method for the filtration medium utilizing this contact material for the preparation of purification zirconium alloy and utilizes this contact material and filtration medium to prepare the method for running channel.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the invention provides a kind of zirconium alloy contact material, be made up of ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer, described ceramic powder is by MgO and ZrO 26-12:100 composition in molar ratio, strengthen stablizer by weight the 0.5%-1% being ceramic powder, described enhancing stablizer is cerium-rich rare earth.
Present invention also offers a kind of preparation method of above-mentioned zirconium alloy contact material, comprise the following steps:
Step 1, mixes ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer;
Step 2, wet ball grinding 20-24 hour, 80-100 DEG C crushed after being dried;
Step 3, calcines 1.5-6 hour at 1400-1450 DEG C, cooling, pulverizes;
Step 4, crushed after being dried, screening at wet ball grinding 24-48 hour, 80-100 DEG C.
Present invention also offers a kind of method utilizing described contact material to prepare filtration medium, comprise the following steps:
Step 1, pre-treatment, it is in the NaOH solution of 10% ~ 20% mass ratio that three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton is immersed concentration, at 40 ~ 60 DEG C of temperature, be hydrolyzed 2 ~ 4h, then repeatedly rubs and dries with after clear water flushing, thus cleaning up sponge;
Step 2, slurrying, first be added in water by polyvinyl alcohol, the ratio of polyvinyl alcohol and water is 10 ~ 12:100 weight ratio, and aqueous temperature controls at 35 ~ 45 DEG C, stir, add defoamer simultaneously, 200 orders and 400 order contact materials are poured in above-mentioned solution according to the weight ratio of 3:1, stirs, obtain slurry, the weight of 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials accounts for the 75-85% of slurry weight;
Step 3, is coated with, and three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton step 1 obtained is immersed in the slurry that step 2 obtains, and fully discharges the gas in skeleton, makes its surface and inner homogeneous be coated with spreading mass, pulls out;
Step 4, drying, is positioned over shady and cool ventilation place by what be coated with three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton, carries out process of drying in the shade, dry in the shade 24-48 hour, make the work in-process to be dried of porcelain filter, the filtration medium work in-process after drying in the shade are put into stoving oven and dries, the heat-up rate of stoving oven is 0.5-5 DEG C/min, be warmed up to 90-120 DEG C, insulation 1-2 hour, then furnace cooling, make the work in-process to be sintered of filtration medium;
Step 5, sintering, namely the cold zone below 500 DEG C, in more than 500 DEG C to 1200 DEG C ~ 1570 DEG C warm area and 1570 DEG C high-temperature zone in sinter, when sintering in cold zone, less than 200 DEG C heat-up rates are 2-5 DEG C/min, more than 200 DEG C to 400 DEG C heat-up rates are 1-3 DEG C/min, be incubated 30 minutes, be then warmed up to 500 DEG C with the speed of 3 DEG C/min when rising to 400 DEG C; When sintering in middle warm area, more than 500 DEG C to 1150 DEG C, speed is 4-5 DEG C/min; 1150 DEG C to 1570 DEG C, heat-up rate controls at 3-4 DEG C/min and is incubated 1 hour at 1300 DEG C by this stage; When sintering in high-temperature zone, at 1570 DEG C of insulations 6-10 hour, then furnace cooling, make filtration medium.
As optimal way, in described step 2, the rotating speed stirring polyethylene alcohol and water is 70 ~ 100 revs/min.
As optimal way, in described step 2, the speed stirred after adding contact material is 80-150 rev/min.
As optimal way, in described step 2, defoamer accounts for 0.1% ~ 1% of polyethylene alcohol and water gross weight.
Present invention also offers a kind of method utilizing described contact material and described filtration medium to prepare running channel, comprise the following steps:
Step 1, make aluminum dipping form, make two symmetrical, close after the aluminum dipping form that mates with the hollow part in running channel;
Step 2, casting, open aluminum dipping form, filtration medium put into the position that aluminum dipping form is corresponding with filter cavity, casting after the aluminum dipping form that closes, and makes wax be full of the hole of aluminum dipping form inside and filtration medium;
Step 3, hanging sand shell, after wax solidifies, open aluminum dipping form and take out the wax-pattern with filtration medium, for avoiding the wax of filter media surface too thick, when being coated with contact material, contact material cannot be close to filtration medium, the wax on surface, electricity consumption blowing wax melting mould filtration medium place, until filtration medium is exposed on wax-pattern surface, wax-pattern is immersed after binding agent and be coated with contact material as surface layer on its surface, after drying in the shade 12 ~ 128 hours, to immerse in binding agent and to be coated with refractory materials at facing surface, dry in the shade 12 ~ 128 hours, repeat to immerse binding agent, the step being coated with refractory materials and dry in the shade 12 ~ 128 hours, obtain and be embedded with filtration medium and take contact material as the housing of surface layer,
Step 4, wax melting, product step 3 obtained puts into hot water, and wax melts disengaging, dries in the shade 8 ~ 24 hours after pulling housing out;
Step 5, sintering, the capsid product that sintering step 4 obtains at 1050 ~ 1250 DEG C is also incubated 30min ~ 2h, and contact material housing sinters shell into, and filtration medium is embedded in shell, obtains the running channel with filtration medium.
As in optimal way step 3, when wax-pattern surface is coated with contact material as surface layer, be first coated with 400 object contact materials, then on 400 object contact materials, be coated with 200 object contact materials.
Zirconium alloy contact material of the present invention adopts ZrO 2as material of main part to avoid reacting, at ZrO with zirconium alloy 2middle interpolation MgO and cerium-rich rare earth, by calcining after wet ball grinding, calcining be conducive to making contact material evenly and crystal formation more stable, MgO and cerium-rich rare earth add and above-mentioned process is conducive to stable crystal form, obtain stable tetragonal structure ZrO 2, avoid pure ZrO 2the volume change caused because of crystal conversion and heat effect, thus ensure its performance.Except zirconium alloy, this contact material and filtration medium also can be used for purifying the activity metal or alloy lower than zirconium.
Present invention also offers the method utilizing this contact material to prepare filtration medium, the method utilizes three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge as skeleton, be coated with slurry at skeleton and obtain filtration medium through oven dry and sintering procedure, by the filtration medium selecting the three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge of different aperture density to prepare different aperture density as skeleton, thus the impurity of interception different size; Because heat-up rate can produce hair line more than filtration medium during 8 DEG C/min, heat-shock resistance is poor, one contacting metal melt will break, present invention reduces heat-up rate during sintering, make filtration medium complete stress relieving, avoid producing hair line, there is good normal temperature strength and hot strength, the temperature variation in scavenging process can be adapted to, ensure decontamination effect improving.
In addition, present invention also offers the method utilizing above-mentioned contact material and purification medium to prepare running channel, the method makes full use of the feature that filter media surface is covered with hole, by making aluminum dipping form, filtration medium put into aluminum dipping form and casting forms wax-pattern, also form running channel, wax melting in filter media surface hanging sand on wax-pattern surface simultaneously and sinter shell into, filtration medium embeds in running channel in the process, thus prepare integrated running channel, filtration medium embeds in running channel and can ensure that all zirconium alloy melts are all filtered medium interception without dead angle, improves decontamination effect improving.
Embodiment
For effectively purifying zirconium alloy, zirconium alloy melt and contact material is avoided to react, first the present invention needs to prepare the contact material can avoiding reacting with zirconium alloy, this contact material mainly adopts zirconium white, zirconium white can effectively be avoided reacting with zirconium alloy, but zirconium white has three kinds of crystal formations, low temperature is oblique system, high temperature is tetragonal system, change isometric system under higher temperature, the transformation between oblique crystal and tetragonal is attended by the volume change of 7%-9%, during heating, oblique crystal changes tetragonal into, volumetric shrinkage; During cooling, tetragonal changes oblique crystal into, volumetric expansion, because crystal conversion causes volume effect, so use pure ZrO 2just be difficult to manufacture stable finished product, must stable crystal form process be carried out.
Embodiment 1
The contact material of the present embodiment is made up of ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer, and described ceramic powder is by MgO and ZrO 26:100 composition in molar ratio, strengthen stablizer by weight being 0.5% of ceramic powder, described enhancing stablizer is preferably cerium-rich rare earth.The cation radius of MgO and Zr 4+close, they are at ZrO 2in solubleness very large, can and ZrO 2formed monocline, four directions and cube etc. the substitutional solid solution of crystal formation.
The preparation method of this contact material is as follows:
Step 1, mixes ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer;
Step 2, wet ball grinding 20 hours, pulverizes after 80 DEG C of oven dryings;
Step 3, calcines 1.5 hours at 1400 DEG C, and cooling is pulverized, and the contact material like this after process is even, and phase body is stablized, and owing to carrying out solution treatment in advance, for follow-up sintering evenly lays the foundation, the intensity of material is higher;
Step 4, wet ball grinding 24 hours, dry at 80 DEG C, for subsequent use as contact material after crossing 200 orders and 400 mesh sieves, to prepare running channel and filtration medium.
After obtaining above-mentioned contact material, this contact material can be utilized for the preparation of the filtration medium of impurity in interception zirconium alloy.Prepare described filtration medium and need following material: aggregate, 200 orders and the above-mentioned contact material of 400 objects; Binding agent, 24 – 88P polyvinyl alcohol, water, defoamer; Skeleton, three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge.
The preparation method of the present embodiment filtration medium is as follows:
Step 1, pre-treatment, it is in the NaOH solution of 10% mass ratio that three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton is immersed concentration, at 40 DEG C of temperature, be hydrolyzed 2h, then repeatedly rubs and dries with after clear water flushing, thus cleaning up sponge;
Step 2, slurrying, first polyvinyl alcohol is added in water, the ratio of polyvinyl alcohol and water is 10:100 weight ratio, aqueous temperature controls at 35 DEG C, shearing dispersion machine is used to stir, prevent polyvinyl alcohol from reuniting in water or sticking on the wall, affect dissolution rate, but the speed stirred can not be too fast, rotating speed is at 150 revs/min, add defoamer (accounting for 0.1% of polyethylene alcohol and water weight) simultaneously, otherwise there will be a large amount of foams, affect the quality of the solution made, 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials are poured in above-mentioned solution according to the weight ratio of 3:1, shearing dispersion machine is used to stir, the speed 80 revs/min stirred, obtain slurry, the weight of 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials accounts for 75% of slurry weight,
Step 3, is coated with, and three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton step 1 obtained is immersed in the slurry that step 2 obtains, and fully discharges the gas in skeleton, makes its surface and inner homogeneous be coated with spreading mass, pulls out;
Step 4, dry, shady and cool ventilation place is positioned over by what be coated with three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton, carry out process of drying in the shade, dry in the shade 4 hours, make framework material size fully stable, make the work in-process to be dried of porcelain filter, the filtration medium work in-process after drying in the shade are put into stoving oven and dries, the heat-up rate of stoving oven is 0.5 DEG C/min, be warmed up to 90 DEG C, be incubated 1 hour, then furnace cooling, fully to remove the volatizable material in slurry, complete the stress relieving of framework material, make the work in-process to be sintered of ceramic filter medium;
Step 5, sintering, namely at cold zone (less than 500 DEG C), sinter in the temperature range of middle warm area (more than 500 DEG C to 1200 DEG C ~ 1570 DEG C) and high-temperature zone (1570 DEG C), when sintering in cold zone, less than 200 DEG C heat-up rates are 2 DEG C/min, more than 200 DEG C to 400 DEG C heat-up rates are 1 DEG C/min, 30 minutes are incubated when rising to 400 DEG C, then 500 DEG C are warmed up to the speed of 3 DEG C/min, prevent binding agent evaporation rate too fast cause in sample powder accumulation body, form fine crack and reduce intensity and the surface quality of sample, even cause waste product, when sintering in middle warm area, more than 500 DEG C to 1150 DEG C, speed is 4 DEG C/min, and heat-up rate can be hurry up, 1150 DEG C to 1570 DEG C, the variable density that zirconium white starts to occur to be caused by the transformation phase transformation of oblique square Tetragonal or Emission in Cubic is in opposite directions up to 13%, certain region of stress concentration even tiny crack must be formed in sintered compact, heat-up rate controls at 3 DEG C/min and is incubated 1 hour at 1300 DEG C by this stage, can make phase transformation evenly and discharge certain transformation stress, avoiding too much tiny crack to be formed to greatest extent, when sintering in high-temperature zone, 1570 DEG C of insulations 6 hours, to reach best normal temperature strength and hot strength, in this stage, zirconium white, due to the solid solution effect of stablizer, can make zirconic stable phasor reach certain degree, make the stress produced due to great number of grains phase transformation be discharged simultaneously, then furnace cooling, makes filtration medium 102 as shown in Figure 2.
Three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge Yin Gaowen in sintering process disappears, thus form corresponding hole in original position of three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge, and then the hole needed for obtaining, the filtration medium selecting the three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge of different PPI (void density) to carry out above-mentioned preparation process can to prepare different PPI (as 10-110PPI).
Be illustrated in figure 1 the sectional view of the filter plant 10 utilizing gravity head, this filter plant 10 comprises integrated running channel 101, multiple ingot mould 103 being embedded in the filtration medium 102 in running channel 101 and being connected with running channel 101 outlet at bottom, preferably, described running channel 101 cylindrically, running channel 101 bottom has the radial filter cavity 104 protruded, filtration medium 102 adaptation that 3 PPI are different is placed in this filter cavity 104, the PPI of these 3 filtration mediums 102 raises successively along melt liquid flow path direction (namely from top to bottom), to tackle the impurity that volume reduces gradually successively.The quantity of filtration medium 102 and PPI can be arranged as required, are not limited to the present embodiment.
Present embodiments provide a kind of method utilizing above-mentioned contact material and filtration medium 102 to prepare running channel 101, filtration medium 102 embedded in running channel 101, comprises the following steps:
Step 1, make aluminum dipping form, make two symmetrical, close after the aluminum dipping form that mates with the hollow part in running channel 101;
Step 2, casting, open aluminum dipping form, filtration medium 102 put into the aluminum dipping form position corresponding with filter cavity 104, casting after the wax-pattern that closes, and makes wax be full of wax-pattern inside and filtration medium 102;
Step 3, hanging sand shell, after wax solidifies, open aluminum dipping form and take out the wax-pattern with filtration medium 102, for avoiding the wax on filtration medium 102 surface too thick, when being coated with contact material, contact material cannot be close to filtration medium 102, the wax on surface, electricity consumption blowing wax melting mould filtration medium 102 place, until filtration medium 102 is exposed on wax-pattern surface, wax-pattern is immersed binding agent (for binding agent is commonly used in precision casting, also can be the preparation method of filtration medium step 2 obtain slurry) after be coated with 400 object contact materials as surface layer on its surface, dry in the shade 12 hours, to immerse in binding agent and to be coated with 200 object contact materials (surface thickness is about 1mm) at facing surface, dry in the shade 12 hours, to immerse in binding agent and to be coated with refractory materials (as mullite at facing surface, aluminum oxide powder, magnesia powder, zircon powder etc.), dry in the shade 12 hours, repeat to immerse binding agent, the step being coated with refractory materials and dry in the shade 12 hours, obtain and be embedded with filtration medium 102 and take contact material as the housing (thickness is about 10mm) of surface layer.Because housing only adopts about 1mm thickness contact material as surface layer, while meeting performance need, rest part adopts the refractory materials thus saving cost that cost is lower;
Step 4, wax melting, product step 3 obtained puts into hot water, and wax melts disengaging, dries in the shade 8 hours after pulling housing out;
Step 5, sintering, the capsid product that sintering step 4 obtains at 1050 DEG C is also incubated 30min, and contact material housing sinters shell into, and filtration medium is embedded in shell, thus obtains the running channel 101 with filtration medium 102.
Table one shows the pouring experiment result of the running channel 101 that the present embodiment obtains, and 5 stoves only have the filtration medium 102 of a stove to be washed away, and shows that the running channel 101 that the present embodiment obtains and filtration medium 102 have good heat-shock resistance.
Table one: pouring experiment effect
Utilize filter plant 10 can carry out melting and casting to zirconium alloy, this process comprises the following steps:
Step one, melting once, the zirconium alloy returns of the identical trade mark are put into the crucible of vacuum melting furnace, vacuum tightness is 0.001Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature is 1000 DEG C, and smelting time is 30 minutes, after zirconium alloy melts completely, pour in the filter plant being embedded with filtration medium and cast; After ingot casting cooling, open vacuum oven, take out ingot formation, the exterior skin of alloy is disposed 1 millimeter, then the composition of sampling analysis zirconium alloy ingot casting, according to the requirement of alloy designations, calculating composition deviation, determines the alloying element needing to supplement.Because the composition of alloy is failed to understand, need to confirm the main component of alloy when melting once, to adjust when secondary smelting, prevent alloying constituent because the source of returns or management not good, and there is composition tolerances.
Step 2, secondary smelting, adjustment alloying constituent, by the various alloying element simple substance of alloying element deviation that makes up or master alloy, together puts into vacuum melting furnace with the zirconium alloy ingot casting of melting once, vacuum tightness is 0.001Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature 1000 DEG C, smelting time is 30 minutes, stirred by electromagnetic induction, make the component of zirconium alloy melt even.
Step 3, purification process prepares, and the running channel being embedded with filtration medium is preheating to 1000 DEG C; Ingot mould prepares, and ingot mould (for metal or stupalith) removing surface is clean, does not have impurity and greasy dirt attachment.
Step 4, casting and purification, pour in running channel by the zirconium alloy melt of melting, and zirconium alloy melt is by filtration medium, and the impurity in its alloy melt is filtered medium interception and absorption, and clean zirconium alloy melt flow in ingot mould, and cooling forms ingot casting.
Through test, contact material prepared by the method for the present embodiment can effectively be avoided react with zirconium alloy, thus avoids introducing impurity, is not also subject to volume change that crystal conversion causes and heat effect affects, thus ensures its performance.Through the obtained filtration medium 102 of the method for the present embodiment without hair line, there is good thermal shock resistance.Can embed in running channel 101 by filtration medium 102 by the method for the present embodiment, filtration medium 102 embeds in running channel and can ensure that all zirconium alloy melts are all filtered medium 102 tackle without dead angle, improves decontamination effect improving.The method utilizing filter plant 10 pairs of zirconium alloys to carry out melting and casting decreases melting number of times than consumable electroarc furnace method, saves energy consumption; Being mingled with of zirconium alloy is few, and the content of the impurity elements such as O, S, P, N, C is extremely low, improves the structure of alloy, improves the mechanical property of alloy; The degradation reducing zirconium alloy uses, and improves economic results in society, achieves the object recycled.
Embodiment 2
The contact material of the present embodiment is made up of ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer, and described ceramic powder is by MgO and ZrO 28.5:100 composition in molar ratio, strengthen stablizer by weight being 0.8% of ceramic powder, described enhancing stablizer is preferably cerium-rich rare earth.
The preparation method of this contact material is as follows:
Step 1, mixes ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer;
Step 2, wet ball grinding 22 hours, pulverizes after 90 DEG C of oven dryings;
Step 3, calcines 2 hours at 1425 DEG C, and cooling is pulverized, and the contact material like this after process is even, and phase body is stablized, and owing to carrying out solution treatment in advance, for follow-up sintering evenly lays the foundation, the intensity of material is higher;
Step 4, wet ball grinding 36 hours, dry at 90 DEG C, for subsequent use as contact material after crossing 200 orders and 400 mesh sieves, to prepare running channel and filtration medium.
After obtaining above-mentioned contact material, this contact material can be utilized for the preparation of the filtration medium of impurity in interception zirconium alloy.Prepare described filtration medium and need following material: aggregate, 200 orders and the above-mentioned contact material of 400 objects; Binding agent, 24 – 88P polyvinyl alcohol, water, defoamer; Skeleton, three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge.
The preparation method of the present embodiment filtration medium is as follows:
Step 1, pre-treatment, it is in the NaOH solution of 15% mass ratio that three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton is immersed concentration, at 40-60 DEG C of temperature, be hydrolyzed 3h, then repeatedly rubs and dries with after clear water flushing, thus cleaning up sponge;
Step 2, slurrying, first polyvinyl alcohol is added in water, polyvinyl alcohol (powder) is the weight ratio of 11:100 with the ratio of water, aqueous temperature controls at 40 DEG C, shearing dispersion machine is used to stir, rotating speed is at 150 revs/min, add defoamer (accounting for 0.1% of polyethylene alcohol and water weight) simultaneously, 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials are poured in above-mentioned solution according to the weight ratio of 3:1, shearing dispersion machine is used to stir, the speed 100 revs/min stirred, obtain slurry, the weight of 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials accounts for 80% of slurry weight,
Step 3, is coated with, and three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton step 1 obtained is immersed in the slurry that step 2 obtains, and fully discharges the gas in skeleton, makes its surface and inner homogeneous be coated with spreading mass, pulls out;
Step 4, drying, is positioned over shady and cool ventilation place by what be coated with three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton, carries out process of drying in the shade, dry in the shade 36 hours, make the work in-process to be dried of porcelain filter, the filtration medium work in-process after drying in the shade are put into stoving oven and dries, the heat-up rate of stoving oven is 2 DEG C/min, be warmed up to 110 DEG C, be incubated 2 hours, then furnace cooling, make the work in-process to be sintered of ceramic filter medium;
Step 5, sintering, namely sinter in the temperature range of cold zone (less than 500 DEG C), middle warm area (more than 500 DEG C to 1200 DEG C ~ 1570 DEG C) and high-temperature zone (1570 DEG C), when sintering in cold zone, less than 200 DEG C heat-up rates are 3 DEG C/min, more than 200 DEG C to 400 DEG C heat-up rates are 2 DEG C/min, be incubated 30 minutes, be then warmed up to 500 DEG C with the speed of 3 DEG C/min when rising to 400 DEG C; When sintering in middle warm area, more than 500 DEG C to 1150 DEG C, speed is 4 DEG C/min; 1150 DEG C to 1570 DEG C, heat-up rate controls at 3 DEG C/min and is incubated 1 hour at 1300 DEG C by this stage; When sintering in high-temperature zone, 1570 DEG C of insulations 8 hours, then furnace cooling, made filtration medium 102 as shown in Figure 2.
The filter plant 10 of the present embodiment is identical with embodiment 1 structure, repeats no more.Present embodiments provide a kind of method utilizing above-mentioned contact material and filtration medium 102 to prepare running channel 101, filtration medium 102 embedded in running channel 101, comprises the following steps:
Step 1, make aluminum dipping form, make two symmetrical, close after the aluminum dipping form that mates with the hollow part in running channel 101;
Step 2, casting, open aluminum dipping form, filtration medium 102 put into the aluminum dipping form position corresponding with filter cavity 104, casting after the wax-pattern that closes, and make wax be full of wax-pattern inside and filtration medium 102, casting speed is unsuitable too fast, in order to avoid filtration medium 102 is washed away;
Step 3, hanging sand shell, after wax solidifies, open aluminum dipping form and take out the wax-pattern with filtration medium 102, for avoiding the wax on filtration medium 102 surface too thick, when being coated with contact material, contact material cannot be close to filtration medium 102, the wax on surface, electricity consumption blowing wax melting mould filtration medium 102 place, until filtration medium 102 is exposed on wax-pattern surface, wax-pattern is immersed binding agent (for binding agent is commonly used in precision casting, also can be the preparation method of filtration medium step 2 obtain slurry) after be coated with 400 object contact materials as surface layer on its surface, after drying in the shade 48 hours, to immerse in binding agent and to be coated with 200 object contact materials (surface thickness is about 1mm) at facing surface, dry in the shade 48 hours, to immerse in binding agent and to be coated with refractory materials (as mullite at facing surface, aluminum oxide powder, magnesia powder, zircon powder etc.), dry in the shade 48 hours, repeat to immerse binding agent, the step being coated with refractory materials and dry in the shade 48 hours, obtain and be embedded with filtration medium 102 and take contact material as the housing (thickness is about 10mm) of surface layer.Because housing only adopts about 1mm thickness contact material as surface layer, while meeting performance need, rest part adopts the refractory materials thus saving cost that cost is lower;
Step 4, wax melting, product step 3 obtained puts into hot water, and wax melts disengaging in the process, dries in the shade 16 hours after pulling out;
Step 5, sintering, the product that sintering step 4 obtains at 1050 DEG C is also incubated 2h, and contact material sinters shell into, thus embeds in shell by filtration medium, obtains the running channel 101 with filtration medium 102.
Table two shows the pouring experiment result of the running channel 101 that the present embodiment obtains, and compared with embodiment 1, the filtration medium 102 of 5 stoves of the present embodiment is not all washed away, and shows that the running channel 101 that the present embodiment obtains and filtration medium 102 have excellent heat-shock resistance.
Table two: pouring experiment effect
Batch Heat (batch) number 1 Heat (batch) number 2 Heat (batch) number 3 Heat (batch) number 4 Heat (batch) number 5
Effect Well Well Well Well Well
Remarks
Utilize filter plant 10 can carry out melting and casting to zirconium alloy, this process comprises the following steps:
Step one, melting once, the zirconium alloy returns of the identical trade mark are put into the crucible of vacuum melting furnace, vacuum tightness is 0.001Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature is 1450 DEG C, and smelting time is 40 minutes, after zirconium alloy melts completely, pour in the filter plant being embedded with filtration medium and cast; After ingot casting cooling, open vacuum oven, take out ingot formation, the exterior skin of alloy is disposed 1 millimeter, then the composition of sampling analysis zirconium alloy ingot casting, according to the requirement of alloy designations, calculating composition deviation, determines the alloying element needing to supplement.Because the composition of alloy is failed to understand, need to confirm the main component of alloy when melting once, to adjust when secondary smelting, prevent alloying constituent because the source of returns or management not good, and there is composition tolerances.
Step 2, secondary smelting, adjustment alloying constituent, by the various alloying element simple substance of alloying element deviation that makes up or master alloy, together puts into vacuum melting furnace with the zirconium alloy ingot casting of melting once, vacuum tightness is 0.001Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature 1450 DEG C, smelting time is 30 minutes, stirred by electromagnetic induction, make the component of zirconium alloy melt even.
Step 3, purification process prepares, and the running channel being embedded with filtration medium is preheating to 1150 DEG C; Ingot mould prepares, and ingot mould (for metal or stupalith) removing surface is clean, does not have impurity and greasy dirt attachment.
Step 4, casting and purification, pour in running channel by the zirconium alloy melt of melting, and zirconium alloy melt is by filtration medium, and the impurity in its alloy melt is filtered medium interception and absorption, and clean zirconium alloy melt flow in ingot mould, and cooling forms ingot casting.
Through test, contact material prepared by the method for the present embodiment can effectively be avoided react with zirconium alloy, thus avoids introducing impurity, is not also subject to volume change that crystal conversion causes and heat effect affects, thus ensures its performance.Through the obtained filtration medium 102 of the method for the present embodiment without hair line, there is good thermal shock resistance.Can embed in running channel 101 by filtration medium 102 by the method for the present embodiment, filtration medium 102 embeds in running channel and can ensure that all zirconium alloy melts are all filtered medium 102 tackle without dead angle, improves decontamination effect improving.The method utilizing filter plant 10 pairs of zirconium alloys to carry out melting and casting decreases melting number of times than consumable electroarc furnace method, saves energy consumption; Being mingled with of zirconium alloy is few, and the content of the impurity elements such as O, S, P, N, C is extremely low, improves the structure of alloy, improves the mechanical property of alloy; The degradation reducing zirconium alloy uses, and improves economic results in society, achieves the object recycled.
Embodiment 3
The contact material of the present embodiment is made up of ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer, and described ceramic powder is by MgO and ZrO 212:100 composition in molar ratio, strengthen stablizer by weight being 1% of ceramic powder, described enhancing stablizer is preferably cerium-rich rare earth.
The preparation method of this contact material is as follows:
Step 1, mixes ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer;
Step 2, wet ball grinding 24 hours, pulverizes after 100 DEG C of oven dryings;
Step 3, calcines 2.5 hours at 1450 DEG C, and cooling is pulverized, and the contact material like this after process is even, and phase body is stablized, and owing to carrying out solution treatment in advance, for follow-up sintering evenly lays the foundation, the intensity of material is higher;
Step 4, wet ball grinding 48 hours, dry at 100 DEG C, for subsequent use as contact material after crossing 200 orders and 400 mesh sieves, to prepare running channel and filtration medium.
After obtaining above-mentioned contact material, this contact material can be utilized for the preparation of the filtration medium of impurity in interception zirconium alloy.Prepare described filtration medium and need following material: aggregate, 200 orders and the above-mentioned contact material of 400 objects; Binding agent, 24 – 88P polyvinyl alcohol, water, defoamer; Skeleton, three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge.
The preparation method of the present embodiment filtration medium is as follows:
Step 1, pre-treatment, it is in the NaOH solution of 20% mass ratio that three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton is immersed concentration, at 40-60 DEG C of temperature, be hydrolyzed 4h, then repeatedly rubs and dries with after clear water flushing, thus cleaning up sponge;
Step 2, slurrying, first polyvinyl alcohol is added in water, polyvinyl alcohol (powder) is 10:100 weight ratio with the ratio of water, aqueous temperature controls at 45 DEG C, shearing dispersion machine is used to stir, rotating speed is at 100 revs/min, add defoamer (accounting for 1% of polyethylene alcohol and water weight) simultaneously, 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials are poured in above-mentioned solution according to the weight ratio of 3:1, shearing dispersion machine is used to stir, the speed 150 revs/min stirred, obtain slurry, the weight of 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials accounts for 85% of slurry weight,
Step 3, is coated with, and three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton step 1 obtained is immersed in the slurry that step 2 obtains, and fully discharges the gas in skeleton, makes its surface and inner homogeneous be coated with spreading mass, pulls out;
Step 4, drying, is positioned over shady and cool ventilation place by what be coated with three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton, carries out process of drying in the shade, dry in the shade 48 hours, make the work in-process to be dried of porcelain filter, the filtration medium work in-process after drying in the shade are put into stoving oven and dries, the heat-up rate of stoving oven is 5 DEG C/min, be warmed up to 120 DEG C, be incubated 2 hours, then furnace cooling, make the work in-process to be sintered of ceramic filter medium;
Step 5, sintering, namely sinter in the temperature range of cold zone (less than 500 DEG C), middle warm area (more than 500 DEG C to 1200 DEG C ~ 1570 DEG C) and high-temperature zone (1570 DEG C), when sintering in cold zone, less than 200 DEG C heat-up rates are 5 DEG C/min, more than 200 DEG C to 400 DEG C heat-up rates are 3 DEG C/min, be incubated 30 minutes, be then warmed up to 500 DEG C with the speed of 3 DEG C/min when rising to 400 DEG C; When sintering in middle warm area, more than 500 DEG C to 1150 DEG C, speed is 5 DEG C/min; 1150 DEG C to 1570 DEG C, heat-up rate controls at 4 DEG C/min and is incubated 1 hour at 1300 DEG C by this stage; When sintering in high-temperature zone, 1570 DEG C of insulations 10 hours, then furnace cooling, made filtration medium 102 as shown in Figure 2.
The filter plant 10 of the present embodiment is identical with embodiment 1 structure, repeats no more.Present embodiments provide a kind of method utilizing above-mentioned contact material and filtration medium 102 to prepare running channel 101, filtration medium 102 embedded in running channel 101, comprises the following steps:
Step 1, make aluminum dipping form, make two symmetrical, close after the aluminum dipping form that mates with the hollow part in running channel 101;
Step 2, casting, open aluminum dipping form, filtration medium 102 put into the aluminum dipping form position corresponding with filter cavity 104, casting after the wax-pattern that closes, and make wax be full of wax-pattern inside and filtration medium 102, casting speed is unsuitable too fast, in order to avoid filtration medium 102 is washed away;
Step 3, hanging sand shell, after wax solidifies, open aluminum dipping form and take out the wax-pattern with filtration medium 102, for avoiding the wax on filtration medium 102 surface too thick, when being coated with contact material, contact material cannot be close to filtration medium 102, the wax on surface, electricity consumption blowing wax melting mould filtration medium 102 place, until filtration medium 102 is exposed on wax-pattern surface, wax-pattern is immersed binding agent (for binding agent is commonly used in precision casting, also can be the preparation method of filtration medium step 2 obtain slurry) after be coated with 400 object contact materials as surface layer on its surface, after drying in the shade 128 hours, to immerse in binding agent and to be coated with 200 object contact materials (surface thickness is about 1mm) at facing surface, dry in the shade 128 hours, to immerse in binding agent and to be coated with refractory materials (as mullite at facing surface, aluminum oxide powder, magnesia powder, zircon powder etc.), dry in the shade 128 hours, repeat to immerse binding agent, the step being coated with refractory materials and dry in the shade 128 hours, obtain and be embedded with filtration medium 102 and take contact material as the housing (thickness is about 10mm) of surface layer.Because housing only adopts about 1mm thickness contact material as surface layer, while meeting performance need, rest part adopts the refractory materials thus saving cost that cost is lower;
Step 4, wax melting, product step 3 obtained puts into hot water, and wax melts disengaging in the process, dries in the shade 24 hours after pulling out;
Step 5, sintering, the product that sintering step 4 obtains at 1050 DEG C is also incubated 2h, and contact material sinters shell into, thus embeds in shell by filtration medium, obtains the running channel 101 with filtration medium 102.
Table three shows the pouring experiment result of the running channel 101 that the present embodiment obtains, and 5 stoves only have the filtration medium 102 of a stove to be washed away, and shows that the running channel 101 that the present embodiment obtains and filtration medium 102 have good heat-shock resistance.
Table three: pouring experiment effect
Utilize filter plant 10 can carry out melting and casting to zirconium alloy, this process comprises the following steps:
Step one, melting once, the zirconium alloy returns of the identical trade mark are put into the crucible of vacuum melting furnace, vacuum tightness is 0.1Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature is 1500 DEG C, and smelting time is 60 minutes, after zirconium alloy melts completely, pour in the filter plant being embedded with filtration medium and cast; After ingot casting cooling, open vacuum oven, take out ingot formation, the exterior skin of alloy is disposed 2 millimeters, then the composition of sampling analysis zirconium alloy ingot casting, according to the requirement of alloy designations, calculating composition deviation, determines the alloying element needing to supplement.Because the composition of alloy is failed to understand, need to confirm the main component of alloy when melting once, to adjust when secondary smelting, prevent alloying constituent because the source of returns or management not good, and there is composition tolerances.
Step 2, secondary smelting, adjustment alloying constituent, by the various alloying element simple substance of alloying element deviation that makes up or master alloy, together puts into vacuum melting furnace with the zirconium alloy ingot casting of melting once, vacuum tightness is 0.1Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature 1500 DEG C, smelting time is 60 minutes, stirred by electromagnetic induction, make the component of zirconium alloy melt even.
Step 3, purification process prepares, and the running channel being embedded with filtration medium is preheating to 1200 DEG C; Ingot mould prepares, and ingot mould (for metal or stupalith) removing surface is clean, does not have impurity and greasy dirt attachment.
Step 4, casting and purification, pour in running channel by the zirconium alloy melt of melting, and zirconium alloy melt is by filtration medium, and the impurity in its alloy melt is filtered medium interception and absorption, and clean zirconium alloy melt flow in ingot mould, and cooling forms ingot casting.
Through test, contact material prepared by the method for the present embodiment can effectively be avoided react with zirconium alloy, thus avoids introducing impurity, is not also subject to volume change that crystal conversion causes and heat effect affects, thus ensures its performance.Through the obtained filtration medium 102 of the method for the present embodiment without hair line, there is better heat-shock resistance.Can embed in running channel 101 by filtration medium 102 by the method for the present embodiment, filtration medium 102 embeds in running channel and can ensure that all zirconium alloy melts are all filtered medium 102 tackle without dead angle, improves decontamination effect improving.
The method utilizing filter plant 10 pairs of zirconium alloys to carry out melting and casting decreases melting number of times than consumable electroarc furnace method, saves energy consumption; Being mingled with of zirconium alloy is few, and the content of the impurity elements such as O, S, P, N, C is extremely low, improves the structure of alloy, improves the mechanical property of alloy; The degradation reducing zirconium alloy uses, and improves economic results in society, achieves the object recycled.
In each embodiment above-mentioned, crucible has all been used in the step one of zirconium alloy melting and casting process, present invention also offers a kind of multilayer crucible, be illustrated in figure 3 the front sectional view of multilayer crucible, comprise for splendid attire melt and the inner crucible 1 of contaminated melt can be avoided, for supporting outer crucible 3 and the fire-resistant packing layer 2 of inner crucible 1, described inner crucible 1 volume is slightly less than outer crucible 3 and is placed in outer crucible 3, and fire-resistant packing layer 2 pads between inner crucible 1 outer wall and outer crucible 3 inwall.
Outer crucible 3 mainly plays a part spacing and protects inner crucible 1, prevents the melt in inner crucible 1 from revealing, due to outer crucible 3 not with melt contacts, it can by cast iron, cast steel, graphite, MgO, Al 2o 3, SiO 2or the combination of above-mentioned substance is formed, thus reduce costs.
Described inner crucible 1 and melt contacts, bear the effect of splendid attire melt, is preferably made up of the contact material of above-mentioned preparation, thus effectively avoid reacting with melt contacts.Compared with prior art, because inner crucible 1 has support and the protection of outer crucible 3, therefore its thickness is so thick without the need to picture prior art, reduces thickness benefits in reduction difficulty of processing and cost, adopt this structure to have very big meaning to reducing costs, promoting zirconic application.Described fire-resistant packing layer 2 plays location inner crucible 1, size expansion buffering and prevents inner crucible 1 from misplacing, preferably be made up of the combination of the deformable refractory materialss such as resistance to guncotton, glass fibre, rock wool or above-mentioned substance, avoid inner crucible 1 outer wall directly to contact with outer crucible 3 inwall, inner crucible 1 expanded by heating is cushioned.

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1. zirconium alloy melting and a casting process, is characterized in that comprising the following steps:
Step one, melting once, the zirconium alloy returns of the identical trade mark are put into the crucible of vacuum melting furnace, vacuum tightness is 0.001-0.1Pa, then be filled with abundant dried argon gas, smelting temperature is 1000-1500 DEG C, and smelting time is 30-60 minute, after zirconium alloy melts completely, pour in the filter plant being embedded with filtration medium and cast; After ingot casting cooling, open vacuum oven, take out ingot formation, the exterior skin of alloy is disposed 1-2 millimeter, then the composition of sampling analysis zirconium alloy ingot casting, according to the requirement of alloy designations, calculating composition deviation, determines the alloying element needing to supplement;
Step 2, secondary smelting, adjustment alloying constituent, by the various alloying element simple substance of alloying element deviation that makes up or master alloy, together put into vacuum melting furnace with the zirconium alloy ingot casting of melting once, vacuum tightness is 0.001-0.1Pa, then abundant dried argon gas is filled with, smelting temperature 1000 ~ 1500 DEG C, smelting time is 30 ~ 60 minutes, stirs and makes the component of zirconium alloy melt even;
Step 3, purification process prepares, and the running channel being embedded with filtration medium is preheating to 1000-1200 DEG C; Ingot mould prepares, and ingot mould removing surface is clean, does not have impurity and greasy dirt attachment;
Step 4, casting and purification, pour in running channel by the zirconium alloy melt of melting, and zirconium alloy melt is by filtration medium, and the impurity in its alloy melt is filtered medium interception and absorption, and clean zirconium alloy melt flow in ingot mould, and cooling forms ingot casting.
2. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 1 and casting process, is characterized in that: described running channel and filtration medium are formed by contact material, and described contact material is made up of ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer, and described ceramic powder is by MgO and ZrO 26-12:100 composition in molar ratio, strengthen stablizer by weight the 0.5%-1% being ceramic powder, described enhancing stablizer is cerium-rich rare earth.
3. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 1 and casting process, is characterized in that: the preparation method of described contact material comprises the following steps:
Step 1, mixes ceramic powder and enhancing stablizer;
Step 2, wet ball grinding 20-24 hour, 80-100 DEG C crushed after being dried;
Step 3, calcines 1.5-6 hour at 1400-1450 DEG C, cooling, pulverizes;
Step 4, crushed after being dried, screening at wet ball grinding 24-48 hour, 80-100 DEG C.
4. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 3 and casting process, is characterized in that: the preparation method of described filtration medium comprises the following steps:
Step 1, pre-treatment, it is in the NaOH solution of 10% ~ 20% that three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton is immersed concentration, at 40 ~ 60 DEG C of temperature, be hydrolyzed 2 ~ 4h, then repeatedly rubs and dries with after clear water flushing presoma, thus cleaning up sponge;
Step 2, slurrying, first progressively polyvinyl alcohol is added in water, until the viscosity of polyethylene alcohol and water be 40-50CPS and pH value at 5-7, aqueous temperature controls at 40-50 DEG C, stir, add defoamer simultaneously, 200 orders and 400 order contact materials are poured in above-mentioned solution according to the weight ratio of 3:1, stirs, obtain slurry, the weight of 200 order contact materials and 400 order contact materials accounts for the 75-85% of slurry weight;
Step 3, is coated with, and three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton step 1 obtained is immersed in the slurry that step 2 obtains, and fully discharges the gas in skeleton, makes its surface and inner homogeneous be coated with spreading mass, pulls out;
Step 4, naturally dry in the shade and dry, being positioned over shady and cool ventilation place by what be coated with three-dimensional polyurethane foam sponge skeleton, carrying out process of drying in the shade, dry in the shade 4-48 hour, make the work in-process to be dried of porcelain filter, the filtration medium work in-process after drying in the shade are put into stoving oven and dries, the heat-up rate of stoving oven is 0.5-5 DEG C/min, be warmed up to 90-120 DEG C, insulation 1-2 hour, then furnace cooling, make the work in-process to be sintered of filtration medium;
Step 5, sintering, namely the cold zone below 500 DEG C, in more than 500 DEG C to 1200 DEG C ~ 1570 DEG C warm area and 1570 DEG C high-temperature zone in sinter, when sintering in cold zone, less than 200 DEG C heat-up rates are 2-5 DEG C/min, more than 200 DEG C to 400 DEG C heat-up rates are 1-3 DEG C/min, be incubated 30 minutes, be then warmed up to 500 DEG C with the speed of 3 DEG C/min when rising to 400 DEG C; When sintering in middle warm area, more than 500 DEG C to 1150 DEG C, speed is 4-5 DEG C/min; 1150 DEG C to 1570 DEG C, heat-up rate controls at 3-4 DEG C/min and is incubated 1 hour at 1300 DEG C by this stage; When sintering in high-temperature zone, at 1570 DEG C of insulations 6-10 hour, then furnace cooling, make filtration medium.
5. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 4 and casting process, is characterized in that: in described step 2, and the rotating speed stirring polyethylene alcohol and water is 70 ~ 100 revs/min.
6. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 4 and casting process, is characterized in that: in described step 2, the speed stirred after adding contact material is 80-150 rev/min.
7. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 4 and casting process, is characterized in that: in described step 2, defoamer accounts for 0.1% ~ 1% of polyethylene alcohol and water gross weight.
8. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 4 and casting process, is characterized in that: the preparation method being embedded with the described running channel of filtration medium comprises the following steps:
Step 1, make aluminum dipping form, make two aluminum dipping forms that are symmetrical, that mate with the hollow part in running channel;
Step 2, casting, open aluminum dipping form, filtration medium put into the position that aluminum dipping form is corresponding with filter cavity, casting after the aluminum dipping form that closes, and makes wax be full of aluminum dipping form inside and filtration medium;
Step 3, hanging sand, after wax solidifies, open aluminum dipping form and take out the wax-pattern with filtration medium, blowing the wax on surface, wax melting mould filtration medium place, until filtration medium is exposed on wax-pattern surface, be repeatedly coated with contact material on wax-pattern surface until desired thickness drying in the shade 4 ~ 128 hours;
Step 4, wax melting, product step 3 obtained puts into hot water, and wax melts disengaging in the process, dries in the shade 8 ~ 24 hours after pulling out;
Step 5, sintering, the product that sintering step 4 obtains at 1050 ~ 1250 DEG C is also incubated 30min ~ 2h, and contact material sinters shell into, and filtration medium embeds in shell, obtains the running channel with filtration medium.
9. zirconium alloy melting according to claim 8 and casting process, is characterized in that: in step 3, when wax-pattern surface is coated with contact material, is first coated with 400 object contact materials, then on 400 object contact materials, is coated with 200 object contact materials.
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