Abstract:
A process and device are disclosed for precipitating solid compounds from the liquid zinc or liquid zinc-based alloys of a metal bath. According to the disclosed process, partial amounts of the metal phase containing the compound(s) are exposed to an acceleration higher than the acceleration due to gravity and at least partially dissociated thereby into fractions containing heavier and/or lighter components. The molten mass depleted of solid compounds is returned to the metal bath and the part of the molten mass enriched with the desired compounds is discharged. The disclosed device is substantially characterized in that a hollow rotary body (2) is introduced into the molten mass (1). The hollow rotary body (2) can be driven about an axis and is fitted in the submerged or lower area with conveyor means (21) which project into the cavity. In its discharge or upper area, the hollow rotary body (2) is provided with at least one discharge opening (23) for the depleted molten mass (14) eccentrically arranged in its wall and with at least one further discharge opening (25) for the liquid metal enriched with the desired compounds centrally arranged and/or eccentrically arranged on the discharge side. At least one of the upper molten mass discharge openings (23, 24) in the rotary body (2) opens into a discharge area of a housing (3) which at least partially surrounds the rotary body (2).
Abstract:
An austenitic manganese steel microalloyed with nitrogen, vanadium and titanium used for castings such as mantles, bowls and jaws manufactured as wear components of crushers in the mining and aggregate industries, hammers used in scrap shredders, frogs and switches used in railway crossings and buckets and track shoes used in mining power shovels. These novel compositions exhibit a fine grain size having carbonitride precipitates that result in castings having a wear life 20-70% longer than prior art castings. The austenitic manganese steel includes, in weight percentages, the following: about 11.0% to 24.0% manganese, about 1.0% to 1.4% carbon, up to about 1% silicon, up to about 1.9% chromium, up to about 0.25% nickel, up to about 1.0% molybdenum, up to about 0.2% aluminum, up to about 0.25% copper, phosphorus and sulfur present as impurities in amounts of about 0.07% max and about 0.06% max. respectively, microalloying additions of titanium in the amounts of about 0.020-0.070%, optionally, microalloying additions of niobium in amounts from about 0.020-0.070%, microalloying additions of vanadium in amounts from about 0.020-0.070%, nitrogen in amounts from about 100 to 1000 ppm, and such that the total amount of the microalloying additions of titanium+niobium+vanadium+nitrogen is no less than about 0.05% and no greater than about 0.22%, the ratio of carbon to microalloying additions being in the range of about 10:1-25:1, and the balance of the alloy being essentially iron, the alloy being characterized by a substantial absence of zirconium and the presence of titanium carbonitride precipitates.
Abstract:
Process for obtaining a metallic phase from a dispersed mixture composed of one of (a) at least one metal selected from the group consisting of a light metal or an alloy of the at least one metal, and mixtures thereof, and (b) at least one non-metallic phase composed of at least one member selected from the group consisting of at least one oxide, an oxide compound, and other compounds of the at least one metal at higher temperatures. The process includes introducing the dispersed mixture into a metallurgical vessel; at least one of heating and adjusting a temperature of the dispersed mixture to between 20 and 250.degree. C. above the liquidus temperature of the metallic phase; rotating the metallurgical vessel to homogenize the dispersed mixture and to produce a pourable dispersed mixture; uniformly distributing the pourable dispersed mixture around a rotational axis of the metallurgical vessel; and increasing a radial acceleration of the pourable dispersed mixture of at least 1 g. The process further includes maintaining the radial acceleration for at least 0.015 hours to one of separate the metallic phase of the pourable dispersed mixture from the non-metallic phase of the pourable dispersed mixture and de-metallize the pourable dispersed mixture; decreasing the radial acceleration to a value of 0 in a span of time greater than 0.03 hours; pouring the metallic phase as a fluid out of the metallurgical vessel; and after pouring the metallic phase out of the metallurgical vessel, removing the at least one non-metallic phase from the metallurgical vessel.
Abstract:
Process and apparatus for the treatment of light metals. The present invention pertains to a process for the treatment of mixtures of at least one light metal and at least one nonmetallic phase, formed of at least one oxide of a light metal, particularly of slag and waste metals for a subsequent process for the separation of the metallic phase as well as an apparatus for carrying out the process or the preparation of the mixture for disintegration, wherein the mixture, slag or waste metals and, if necessary, additions for the formation of a charge, are loaded into a treatment container or receptacle, overheated a maximum of 380.degree. C. and the phases, via motion, are dispersed and/or held in dispersement, whereafter the homogenized charge, set up with the parameters for the subsequent process, is removed and subjected to separation.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a process for de-metallization of metal-containing residues, dross, slags and the like that accumulate during thermal processes in metallurgical and scrap metal reclamation processes which consists of that the metal/non-metal phase mixture is fed into a centrifuge mold at a temperature within the mentioned temperature range or after having been fed into it is brought to the temperature mentioned, there in a first process phase, while maintaining the temperature within the mentioned range, it is subjected to radial acceleration for a specified time until a required degree of de-metallization is achieved and that in a second phase of the process by maintaining the radial acceleration by means of rotation at least the metallic phase, separated and removed from the phase mixture and arranged on the outside periphery is brought to solidification or setting by lowering its temperature, after which the metal phase when reaching the handling temperature is removed as at least one body whose outer surface corresponds essentially to the shape of the inside of the centrifuge mold and whose inside has a paraboloidal or cylindrical surface. It also includes the preferred devices for the implementation thereof.
Abstract:
Process and device for precipitating solid compounds from zinc metal baths. Partial amounts of the metal phase containing these compounds are exposed to an acceleration higher than gravity and dissociated into fractions containing heavier or lighter components. The molten mass depleted of solid compounds is returned to the metal bath. The device has a hollow rotary body for introduction into the molten mass and provided with a discharge opening for the depleted molten mass and a discharge opening for the liquid metal enriched with the solid compounds.
Abstract:
Method for the extraction of the metallic phase from dispersed mixtures of light metals and nonmetallic components. The invention pertains to an advantageous method for the extraction of the metallic phase from a dispersed mixture comprised of at least one light metal and at least one nonmetallic phase and, if applicable, at least the partial separation of the nonmetallic phase. The temperature of the dispersed mixture is raised to a temperature in the region above the melting temperature of the metal or alloy; the heated mixture is then inserted into an apparatus, subjected to an acceleration, and disintegrated, with the metallic phase thereafter being coalesced, collected and allowed to proceed to solidification.
Abstract:
A work-hardenable austenitic manganese steel has a base composition (each in percent by weight) of 0.7 to 1.7 carbon, 5.0 to 18.0 manganese, 0 to 3.0 chromium, 0 to 4.0 nickel, 0 to 2.5 molybdenum, 0.1 to 0.9 silicon, up to 0.1 phosphorus and contains micro-alloying elements of 0.0 to 0.20 titanium, 0.0 to 0.05 zirconium and 0.0 to 0.05 vanadium; the remainder being iron and impurities arising from the melting process. The ratio of carbon to manganese is in the range of 1:4 to 1:14 and the total amount of micro-alloying elements is limited to a range of 0.002 to 0.25 percent by weight. The melt of the base composition is tapped at 1,450.degree. C. to 1,600.degree. C. into a casting ladle in which the micro-alloying elements are added. An ingot is cast, cooled, reheated to austenitization temperatures and quenched.
Abstract:
A work-hardenable austenitic manganese steel has a base composition (each in percent by weight) of 0.7 to 1.7 carbon, 5.0 to 18.0 manganese, 0 to 3.0 chromium, 0 to 4.0 nickel, 0 to 2.5 molybdenum, 0.1 to 0.9 silicon, up to 0.1 phosphorus and contains micro-alloying elements of 0.0 to 0.05 titanium, 0.0 to 0.05 zirconium and 0.0 to 0.05 vanadium; the remainder being iron and impurities arising from the melting process. The ratio of carbon to manganese is in the range of 1:4 to 1:14 and the total amount of micro-alloying elements is limited to a range of 0.002 to 0.05 percent by weight. The melt of the base composition is tapped at 1,450.degree. C. to 1,600.degree. C. into a casting ladle in which the micro-alloying elements are added. An ingot is cast, cooled, reheated to austenitization temperatures and quenched.