研究了210 t BOF-LF-RH-CC工艺流程生产X80管线钢(%:0.041～0.044C、0.15Si、1.78～1.80Mn、0.007～0.010P、0.000 8～0.001 2S、0.039～0.047[Al]s)时精炼过程中夹杂物的变化。在BOF出钢阶段采用加Al强脱氧(0.01%～0.02%[Al]s),LF精炼过程采用高碱度、强还原性精炼渣(精炼渣成分%:50～58CaO、7～10MgO、20～25Al_2O_3、4～7SiO_2、0.5～1.4TFe),炉渣和钢液反应活跃,使得钢中Al_2O_3夹杂物很快向液态钙铝酸盐和部分液态CaO-MgO-Al_2O_3复合夹杂物转变。液态夹杂物通过碰撞、聚合、长大及上浮去除,提高了钢液的洁净度。浇铸前T[O]降到(7～10)×10^(-6),钢中夹杂物尺寸在3～5μm,试验炉次的热轧板内未发现大尺寸的低熔点钙铝酸盐类长条夹杂物。
Alloying structural steel used for mechanical structures has a high requirement for cleanliness because its failures are greatly affected by non-metallic inclusions and total oxygen content in steel.It has been reported by some steelmaking plants to have some problems in controlling total oxygen content and inclusions during alloying structural steel production.For this purpose,cleanliness control in 0.2C-0.3Si-0.6Mn-1Cr-0.2Mo steel was investigated.Firstly,low melting temperature zone(≤1873 K) of CaO-Al2O3-MgO system and formation condition of low melting temperature inclusions were investigated through thermodynamic equilibrium calculation.On this basis,industrial tests were carried out.Through sampling at different stages,transformation of oxide inclusions and change of total oxygen content in steel were studied.The results show that:in order to form CaO-Al2O3-MgO system inclusions with low melting temperature,mass percent of Al2O3,MgO and CaO in inclusions should be controlled from 37.6% to 70.8%,0 to 17.4% and 25.5% to 60.6%;For the condition of 1873 K and 0.05%(mass percent) dissolved aluminum in steel,the activities of dissolved oxygen,magnesium and calcium should be controlled as 0.298×10-4-2×10-4,0.1×10-5-40×10-5 and 0.8×10-8-180×10-8 respectively.With secondary refining proceeding,average total oxygen content and inclusion amount decrease,the type of most inclusions changes from Al2O3 after tapping to Al2O3-MgO after top slag is formed during ladle furnace refining and finally to CaO-Al2O3-MgO after RH treatment.In the final products,average total oxygen content was 12.7×10-6 and most inclusions were in spherical shape with size less than 5 μm.
The desulfurization ability of refining slag with relative lower basicity(B) and Al2O3 content(B = 3.5-5.0; 20wt%-25wt% Al2O3) was studied. Firstly, the component activities and sulfide capacity(CS) of the slag were calculated. Then slag-metal equilibrium experiments were carried out to measure the equilibrium sulfur distribution(LS). Based on the laboratorial experiments, slag composition was optimized for a better desulfurization ability, which was verified by industrial trials in a steel plant. The obtained results indicated that an Mg O-saturated Ca O-Al2O3-Si O2-Mg O system with the basicity of about 3.5-5.0 and the Al2O3 content in the range of 20wt%-25wt% has high activity of Ca O(aCa O), with no deterioration of CS compared with conventional desulfurization slag. The measured LS between high-strength low-alloyed(HSLA) steel and slag with a basicity of about 3.5 and an Al2O3 content of about 20wt% and between HSLA steel and slag with a basicity of about 5.0 and an Al2O3 content of about 25wt% is 350 and 275, respectively. The new slag with a basicity of about 3.5-5.0 and an Al2O3 content of about 20wt% has strong desulfurization ability. In particular, the key for high-efficiency desulfurization is to keep oxygen potential in the reaction system as low as possible, which was also verified by industrial trials.
