Chlorine and fluorine are well known as effective degassing agents for aluminum and its alloys. Fluorine has usually been used as a flux of fluorides. However, being different from gaseous chlorine, fluorine cannot be used so effectively as the "direct bubbling" of chlorine into molten metals.
On the other hand, "Freon l2 (CCl
2F
2)" which is widely used as a refrigerant, contains both of chlorine and fluorine. Because of its odorless and non-poisonous properties, it is very simple in handling. Hence, it is very promissing of excellent degassing agent for aluminum and its alloys.
In this paper, the authors report the effectiveness of CCl
2F
2 and N
2-CCl
2F
2 mixture for degassing agents as well as the harmfulness of the waste gas after the degassing treatment.
The results obtained were as follows:
(1) Degassing ability of CCl
2F
2 evaluated by the porosity of aluminum castings was nearly twice as large as that of Cl
2. However, the waste gas after the treatment of CCl
2F
2 was more poisonous than that of Cl
2.
(2) Degassing ability of N
2-CCl
2F
2 mixture was greater than that of N
2-Cl
2 mixture. The degassing ability rapidly increased with the increase of CCl
2F
2 content up to 30% and the ability of N
2 70%-CCl
2F
2 30% mixture was almost equal to that of 100% Cl
2.
(3) N
2-CCl
2F
2 mixture containing less than 50% of CCl
2F
2 was less poisonous than 100% Cl
2. The former was less corrosive against mild steel or aluminum than the latter.
(4) By mixing CCl
2F
2 with Cl
2, the degassing ability of the mixture increased in linear proportion with the increase of CCl
2F
2 content. The ability of N
2-Cl
2 mixture also increased by mixing CCl
2F
2 and it was equal to that of N
2 70%-CCl
2F
2 30% when 20% of CCl
2F
2 was mixed with N
2 90%-Cl
2 10% mixture.
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