Dissolution of BaZrO3 refractory in titanium melt |
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| Authors: | Guangyao Chen Juyun Kang Pengyue Gao Ziwei Qin Xionggang Lu Chonghe Li |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Materials Genome Institute of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China;3. Shanghai Special Casting engineering technology research center, Shanghai, China |
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| Abstract: | Although numerous investigations have studied BaZrO3 as a crucible refractory for melting titanium alloys, the interaction mechanism between them has not been clarified. In this study, a set of three designed alloys with different Ti composition (TiNi, Ti1.5Ni, and Ti2Ni) were melted in the BaZrO3 crucibles. By using the X‐ray diffraction, optical, and scanning electron microscopy analysis, the interactions between the BaZrO3 crucibles and the titanium melts were investigated. It was found that dissolution of the BaZrO3 refractory into the titanium melts resulted in the crucible erosion and the melt contamination, the degree of which were both increased with the increasing of Ti content in the melts. The dissolution reaction could be determined as follows:  . The oxygen content dissolved in TiNi, Ti1.5Ni, and Ti2Ni melts was thermodynamically calculated as 0.0055, 0.1922, and 0.2263 wt%, respectively, which were in agreement with the experimental results. |
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| Keywords: | barium zirconate dissolution thermodynamics titanium alloys titanium content |
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. The oxygen content dissolved in TiNi, Ti1.5Ni, and Ti2Ni melts was thermodynamically calculated as 0.0055, 0.1922, and 0.2263 wt%, respectively, which were in agreement with the experimental results.