Low frequency induction furnaces have been rapidly developed in use in the last few years, and various researches have been made on the operation of the furnaces. It is generally understood that the iron melted by induction furnace has a strong chilling tendency and is prone to form shrinkage defects.
When melting by the low frequency induction furnace, continuous batch melting is the common practice, a part of molten iron being tapped and replaced with a cold charge of steel scrap and returns. In our operation, with four 8-ton induction furnaces, 4.4 tons of molten iron is usually tapped and a same amount of cold rolled steel scrap and returns is recharged.
The present experiment was conducted to examine the influence of the proportions of steel scrap in the charge, ranging from 10 to 90 percent, on some properties of induction melted iron. The results obtained were as follows :
(1) No change in chilll depth was observed in chill tests with varying the proportion of steel scrap in the charge.
(2) The degree of normality and quality factor slightly decreased by increasing the proportion of steel scrap in the charge, while the relative hardness did not show any appreciable change. Therefore, if the carbon equivalent is kept constant, the amount of steel scrap charged may be varied depending on the quantities of returns available.
(3) Hydrogen and oxygen contents in the iron slightly increased by increasing the proportion of steel scrap in the charge, while hydrochloric acid-soluble nitrogen content decreased.
(4) Inoculation had no significant influence on the gas content in the molten iron.
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