Patent Grant
10236105
This application claims priority to and benefit of PCT Application No. PCT/CN2012/001683, entitled “High Magnetic Induction Oriented Silicon Steel and Manufacturing Method Thereof,” filed Dec. 11, 2012, which claims the benefit of Chinese Patent Application No, 201210315658.2 filed on Aug. 30, 2012, which are both incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
The invention relates to a steel plate and a manufacturing method thereof, in particular to a silicon steel and a manufacturing method thereof.
A traditional high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel comprises the following basic chemical components: 2.0-4.5% of Si, 0.03-0.10% of C, 0.03-0.2% of Mn, 0.005-0.050% of S, 0.02-0.05% of Als (acid-soluble aluminum) and 0.003-0.012% of N, and some component systems further contain one or more of Cu, Mo, Sb, B, Bi and other elements.
A traditional manufacturing method of the traditional high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel comprises the following steps: firstly performing steel making by a converter (or an electric furnace), performing secondary refining and alloying, and performing continuous casting to form a slab; then heating the slab to about 1400° C. in a special high-temperature heating furnace and performing heat preservation for 45 min or more, in order to be conductive to full solid solution of favorable inclusions; then performing hot rolling and laminar cooling, then coiling, precipitating small and dispersed second phase particles in a silicon steel base body in a normalizing process of a hot-rolled plate to obtain effective inhibitors; further performing cold rolling on the hot-rolled plate to the thickness of a finished product, then decarbonizing and annealing to remove C in a steel plate to the degree in which the magnetic performance of the finished product is not affected (which should be 30 ppm or less generally), and coating an annealing isolation agent taking MgO as a main component; further performing high-temperature annealing to realize secondary recrystallization of the steel plate in a high-temperature annealing process, forming a magnesium silicate bottom layer and completing purification treatment (for removing S, N and other elements in steel which are harmful to magnetic property) to obtain the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel with high degree of orientation and low iron loss; and finally coating an insulating coating, stretching and annealing to obtain an oriented silicon steel product in a commercial application form.
The traditional manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel has the following deficiencies: in order to realize full solid solution of the inhibitors, the highest heating temperature needs to reach 1400° C., which is the limit level of the traditional heating furnace. In addition, due to high heating temperature and great burning loss, the heating furnace needs to be repaired frequently and the utilization rate is low. Simultaneously, due to high energy consumption and large edge cracks of a hot-rolled coil, in the cold-rolling procedure, it is difficult to produce, the yield is low and the cost is high.
In view of the above mentioned problems, a large number of studies about reducing the heating temperature of the oriented silicon steel have been developed in the technical field. By differentiating according to the range of heating temperature of the slab, there are two main improvement paths, one is a medium-temperature slab heating process, in which the heating temperature of the slab is 1250-1320° C. and AlN and Cu are taken as the inhibitors; and the other one is a low-temperature slab heating process, in which the heating temperature of the slab is 1100-1250° C., and the inhibitors are introduced by adopting a nitriding method.
At present, the development of the low-temperature slab heating process is faster, for example, the heating of the slab is performed at a temperature of 1200° C. or less, final cold rolling is performed at a cold rolling reduction ratio of more than 80%, and ammonia gas is adopted in the decarbonizing and annealing process to perform continuous nitriding treatment and perform high-temperature annealing to obtain secondary recrystalized grains with relatively high degree of orientation. The manufacturing process has the advantages that the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel (HiB) can be produced with relatively low cost and the typical magnetic induction B8 of the silicon steel is 1.88-1.92 T.
The inhibitors of the low-temperature slab heating process are mainly from the small and dispersed (Al, Si), N, (Mn, Si) and N particles which are formed by combination of nitrogen and original aluminum in the steel through the nitriding treatment after decarbonizing and annealing. Simultaneously, the inhibitors are also from the existing inclusions in the slab, these inclusions are formed in the steel-making and casting process, realize partial solid solution in the heating process of the slab and are precipitated in the rolling process, and the form of the inclusions can be adjusted by normalizing and annealing, thereby having important influence on primary recrystallization and further affecting the magnetic performance of the final product. When the size of the primary grains is matched with the level of inhibition, the secondary recrystallization is perfected, and the magnetic performance of the final product is excellent. In the normalizing process, although the nitride inhibitors are affected by the form of the inclusions in the slab, it is quite difficult to control the form of the inclusions in the slab, for example, the coarse AlN formed in the casting process is difficult to realize solid solution in the subsequent annealing, thereby causing great difficulty in control of stability of the size of the primary grains and low probability of stably obtaining the high-grade HiB product with the magnetic induction B8 of not less than 1.93 T. In addition, under the condition that the thickness of the finished product is determined, some measures for further reducing the iron loss generally will reduce the magnetic induction, for example, by increasing the Si content or performing laser scribing or the like. The range of applications of these methods for reducing the iron loss is limited due to the reduction in magnetic induction. Other methods for improving the magnetic induction B8, such as fast heating in the decarbonizing and annealing process, need to additionally add special devices such as fast induction heating device or ohmic heating device and the like, and thus the investment cost is increased. In addition, fast heating will increase defects in the bottom layer of the finished product, in particular to the occurrence rate of bright point-like defects.
Chinese patent document with patent publication number of CN1138107A, publication date of Dec. 18, 1996, entitled “High-magnetic flux density and low-iron loss grain oriented electromagnetic steel plate and manufacturing method thereof” discloses an electromagnetic steel plate, which contains 2.5-4.0 wt % of Si and 0.005-0.06 wt % of Al; in all grains of the steel plate, calculated by area rate, at least 95% of the grains are constituted by coarse secondary recrystalized grains with the diameter of 5-50 mm, the (001) axis has an angle of within 5° relative to the rolling direction of the steel plate and the (001) axis has the angle of within 5° relative to the vertical direction of the plate surface; and in the coarse secondary recrystalized grains or a grain boundary, there exist the small grains with the diameter of 0.05-2 mm, and the relative angle of the (001) axis of small grains to the (001) axis of the coarse secondary grains is 2-30°.
Japanese patent document with patent publication number of JP8232020A, publication date of Sep. 10, 1996, entitled “Manufacturing method of directional electromagnetic steel sheet” relates to a manufacturing method for producing a silicon steel sheet with low price and excellent magnetic property, and the manufacturing method includes the steps of performing cold continuous rolling at a specific rolling speed and annealing, regulating to the total nitrogen content at specific ppm and then completing annealing. The steel sheet comprises the following components in weight percent: 0.001-0.09% of C, 2-4.5% of silicon, 0.01-0.08% of acid-soluble aluminum, 0.0001-0.004% of N, 0.008-0.06% of independent or total S and (or) selenium; 0.01-1% of copper, 0.01-0.5% of manganese, a small quantity of Bi, P, Sn, Pb, B, V, niobium and the like and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities. The cold continuous rolling ratio of the cold-rolled silicon steel is 75-95%, the annealing temperature is 800-1000° C., the annealing time is 1300 s, and the total nitrogen content is 50-1000 ppm.
Japanese patent document with patent publication number of JP4337029A, publication date of Nov. 25, 1992, entitled “One-time recrystallization sintering method of directional electromagnetic steel plate” discloses a manufacturing method of a directional electromagnetic steel plate, and the manufacturing method mainly relates to a control method of size of primary grains of nitriding of oriented silicon steel, and proposes a method for adjusting decarbonizing temperature according to Als, N and Si.
The object of the present invention is to provide high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel and a manufacturing method thereof. On the premise of not additionally adding devices, by designing steel components and controlling a decarbonizing and annealing process, an oriented silicon steel product with more excellent magnetic performance is obtained, and the magnetic induction thereof is obviously improved in comparison with the ordinary oriented silicon steel and the typical magnetic induction B8 thereof is more than 1.93 T.
In order to realize the object of the present invention, the present invention provides high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel, which comprises the following chemical elements by weight percent: 0.035-0.120% of C, 2.9-4.5% of Si, 0.05-0.20% of Mn, 0.005-0.050% of P, 0.005-0.012% of S, 0.015-0.035% of Als, 0.001-0.010% of N, 0.05-0.30% of Cr, 0.005-0.090% of Sn, not more than 0.0100% of V, not more than 0.0100% of Ti, at least one of trace elements Sb, Bi, Nb and Mo, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities, wherein Sb+Bi+Nb+Mo is 0.0015-0.0250% and (Sb/121.8+Bi/209.0+Nb/92.9+Mo/95.9)/(Ti/47.9+V/50.9) value, namely the mole fraction ratio of (Sb+Bi+Nb+Mo)/(V+Ti) ranges from 0.1 to 15.
Furthermore, the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel of the present invention has the primary grains size Φ which is not more than 30 μm, and the primary recrystallization degree P which is not less than 90%.
In the technical solution, by adding the trace element Sb, Bi, Nb or Mo and controlling the content of impurity elements V and Ti, carbon compounds and nitrogen compounds of the trace elements are preferably formed, and the quantity of MnS+AlN composite inclusions taking TiN, TiC or VN as the core in a slab is greatly reduced. As the size of these composite inclusions is coarse, the full solid solution can not be realized in a heating and subsequent annealing process of the slab and the inhibition effect is poor. With the increases in the content sum of (Sb+Bi+Nb+Mo) and the mole fraction rate of (Sb+Bi+Nb+Mo)/(V+Ti), on the one hand, the trace element and their formed carbon compounds and nitrogen compounds can be used as auxiliary inhibitors to play a role in strengthening inhibition, and on the other hand, as the amount of the MnS+AlN composite inclusions is reduced and the amount of the small and dispersed AlN is increased, not only the level of inhibition for secondary recrystallization is strengthened, but also the situation is also favorable for obtaining small and uniform primary grains and high primary recrystallization degree and perfecting secondary recrystallization, and the magnetic induction of a finished steel plate is thus obviously improved.
Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel, comprising the following steps:
Furthermore, in the manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel of the present invention, the decarbonizing and annealing temperature is controlled to enable the primary grains size Φ to be not more than 30 μm and enable the primary recrystallization degree P to be not less than 90%.
Furthermore, the manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel of the present invention further comprises step (9) of refining a magnetic domain to obtain a product with relatively low required iron loss. Refining the magnetic domain can adopt a laser scribing method, and after laser scribing, the magnetic performance of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel is more excellent.
Furthermore, in step (2) of the manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel according to the present invention, the heating temperature is not more than 1250° C.
Furthermore, in step (4) of the manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel according to the present invention, the cold rolling reduction ratio is not less than 75%.
Furthermore, in step (6) of the manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel according to the present invention, the content of infiltrated nitrogen is 50-260 ppm.
It is key point for the manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel according to the present invention to control the decarbonizing temperature. The setting of the appropriate decarbonizing temperature needs to realize two purposes: one purpose is to enable the primary grains size Φ to be not more than 30 μm, and the other purpose is to enable the recrystallization degree P of primary recrystallization to be not less than 90%, wherein the primary recrystallization degree P is defined as the proportion of primary recrystallization of a steel strip after decarbonizing and annealing. When the primary grains size Φ is not more than 30 μm and the recrystallization degree P is not less than 90%, the magnetic performance of the steel strip is more excellent. In order to enable both the primary grains size and the recrystallization degree to meet the above required ranges, the decarbonizing temperature needs to be set according to the content and the proportion of the trace element in the slab, and meet a function relation formula T (x1, x2)=ax1+bx2+c. In the technical solution, the primary grains size Φ and the primary recrystallization degree P can be measured by adopting conventional measurement means in the art, for example, the primary recrystallization degree P can be measured by adopting electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD).
In addition, it can be seen from the function relation formula of the decarbonizing temperature that the decarbonizing temperature after adding the trace element Sb, Bi, Nb or Mo is higher than that without adding these element component systems. This is because the amount of MnS+AlN composite inclusions in the steel plate is reduced and the amount of small and dispersed AlN is increased, the inhibition effect for primary recrystallization is strengthened and the decarbonizing temperature thus needs to be increased appropriately.
Compared with the ordinary high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel, the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel according to the present invention has higher primary recrystallization degree, smaller and more uniform the primary grains size, and coarser secondary recrystalized grains, and thus the magnetic induction thereof is significantly improved and the magnetic performance of the product is stable while the iron loss is not reduced or is slightly reduced.
In the manufacturing method of the high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel according to the present invention, by adding the trace element in the steel-making process, controlling the content of corresponding impurity elements in combination with the adjustment of the subsequent decarbonizing and annealing process, the primary grains size is not more than 30 μm and the recrystallization degree of primary recrystallization is not less than 90%, the trace element and their formed carbon compounds and nitrogen compounds can be used as the auxiliary inhibitors, the amount of the MnS+AlN composite inclusions in the slab is reduced, and the amount of the small and dispersed AlN is increased, thereby being favorable for obtaining small and uniform primary grains and high primary recrystallization degree, improving the magnetic induction of the finished product, and further obtaining the oriented silicon steel with the excellent magnetic performance.
The technical solution of the present invention is further described and explained below in conjunction with specific embodiments and comparative examples.
The high magnetic induction oriented silicon steel of the present invention is manufactured according to the following steps:
Table 3 shows the decarbonizing temperature, the recrystallization degree, the primary grains size of, the magnetic induction B8 and the iron loss P17/50 of examples 1-12 and comparative examples 14-17.
It can be seen from Table 1 and Table 3 that, the steel coil which adopts the technical solution of the present invention and particularly meets the component design requirements of the present invention in the content and the proportion of the trace element, and meets the requirements in the decarbonizing temperature, the primary grains size and the recrystallization degree generally has great magnetic performance and the magnetic induction B8 thereof is more than 1.93 T.
In order to further describe the influence of the step of refining the magnetic domain on the iron loss performance of the oriented silicon steel, the inventor also adds Sb, Bi, Nb or Mo element according to the components of the conventional low-temperature oriented silicon steel, controls the content of V and Ti to be less than 0.0020%, adopts the appropriate decarbonizing temperatures to obtain the oriented silicon steel products with the thickness of 0.23 mm, and performs laser scribing treatment to obtain a plurality of products. The magnetic performance of each product is shown in Table 4.
It can be seen from Table 4 that, as the grains of the final products are coarse, the iron loss improvement effects of the products with the serial numbers of 1-7 are very obvious after laser scribing, and the comprehensive magnetic performances of the products after scribing are obviously more excellent than the products with the serial numbers of 8-11.
It should be noted that the examples listed above are only the specific examples of the present invention, and obviously the present invention is not limited to the above examples and can have many similar changes. All variations which can be directly derived from or associated with the disclosure of the invention by those skilled in the art should be within the scope of protection of the present invention.
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