Abstract:
The invention provides a process for making ferro-nickel shot from a molten alloy bath including a granulating adjuvant containing silicon. The resulting shot can be used as soluble anodes for use in electroplating in which a ferro-nickel plating is applied to a substrate.
Abstract:
An improved method is described for the continuous shielded arc melting of calcine in an electric arc furnace to obtain molten slag, underlain by molten metal.The furnace is so operated that the major portion of the total energy supplied thereto is released in the arc, and the minor portion in the molten bath. The improvement consists of adjusting the electrical energy released in the bath, directly to obtaining a required active bath area calculated by means of the rate of change in the volume of the slag and indirectly to the silica:magnesia ratio in the slag. The optimum range of active bath area is derived from conditions required for the safe and continuous operation of the furnace, in order to protect the furnace walls from slag erosion and to avoid excessive electrode movement.
Abstract:
A method of treating boron-containing steel for continuous casting, especially for teeming or pouring into small sectional shapes or formats with unregulated nozzles. There is introduced into the molten steel located in the casting ladle, by means of an inert carrier gas, in a powder form calcium or a compound thereof, at least one element forming a stable nitride at the melt temperature of the steel and boron or a boron compound. The thus treated steel is protected from renewed reaction with air along its path between the ladle and the continuous casting mold.
Abstract:
An apparatus providing a gas tight seal for electrodes in covered electrical smelting furnaces is disclosed. The apparatus is characterized by hydraulic hoses which permit movement of the electrodes and their associated holders without loss of a gas tight seal.
Abstract:
An improved method and apparatus for producing ferro-alloys from ore in which an ore is first mixed with a solid reducing agent, preheated and pre-reduced in a rotary kiln, and smelted in an electric furnace, in which the pre-reduced ore is heated by a burner provided in the electric furnace where it is also reoxidized. The ore is also heated in the rotary kiln by recycled gas.
Abstract:
Introduction of beryllium into iron-boron base glassy alloys improves the thermal stability while substantially retaining the saturation moment of the base alloy. The alloys of the invention consist essentially of about 10 to 18 atom percent boron, about 2 to 10 atom percent beryllium and about 72 to 80 atom percent iron plus incidental impurities.
Abstract:
Copper containing molybdenite concentrates are reduced in a ferro-manganese melt or a melt of ferro-manganese and iron to produce a molybdenum-iron material having significantly low copper and sulfur content therein.
Abstract:
Rare earth metal silicide alloys comprising about 25 to about 40% rare earth metals, about 35 to about 50% Si, about 5 to about 25% Fe, about 2 to about 8% Ca, about 2 to about 4% Ba and about 1 to about 3% Sr, the proportions based on the weight of the alloy are disclosed. Also disclosed is a method of making rare earth metal silicide alloys and a method of treating high strength-low alloy steel with the rare earth metal silicide alloys of the invention.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a contact material for high-power vacuum circuit breakers. In the method, an alloy consisting essentially of a base metal having a melting point above about 1000.degree. C and below about 1800.degree. C, at least one alloying metal which will not form a solid solution with the base metal, and at least one auxiliary metal which forms a eutectic with the base metal are melted under vacuum at a temperature between about 1000.degree. C and about 1800.degree. C. The molten alloy is then slowly cooled so as to form fine grain crystals of the base metal and auxiliary metal in solid solution in the eutectic while the eutectic is a liquid and transfer gases expelled from the crystals during the cooling to the liquid eutectic to increase the concentration of gases in the liquid eutectic above an equilibrium concentration, cause evacuation of the gases from the liquid eutectic, and remove the gases from the alloy. The alloy is then cooled to rapidly solidify the liquid eutectic and precipitate the alloying metal as a fine dispersion in the eutectic.
Abstract:
A melt for cold rolled, non-oriented silicon steel is deoxidized and thereafter treated with mischmetal or a mischmetal alloy to desulfurize the melt to 0.012% by weight sulfur or less without the formation of a polluting smoke. The deoxidation is carried out to the extent that, and the mischmetal is added in an amount such that, the melt composition, has a total cerium content of up to about 400 ppm. and preferably from about 75 to about 250 ppm.