Claims
- 1. A method of remelting a nickel-based superalloy, which comprises:
- placing said superalloy in a cooled copper crucible;
- melting said superalloy under clean vacuum conditions in said crucible so as to form a molten metal mass.
- applying a magnetic field to the molten metal mass in said crucible at a frequency within the range of from 5.10.sup.3 Hz and 5.10.sup.5 Hz and cooling the molten metal mass so as to effect simultaneously electromagnetic stirring of a liquid metal portion of the molten metal mass and concentrating at outer portions of the molten metal mass all non-conductive particles thus achieving inclusion decanting, and
- separating the metal mass from the non-conductive particles.
- 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said crucible comprises a straight crucible, and which comprises introducing said superalloy in the form of a cylindrical ingot into an upper part of said crucible, and drawing refined, resolidified remelted metal from a bottom part of said crucible in the form of a cylindrical ingot for subsequent surface machining to remove inclusions collected at a periphery of the ingot.
- 3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said crucible comprises a levitation crucible and wherein the method comprises cooling the walls of the crucible, holding a greater part of the superalloy in levitation, and tapping refined metal through an opening of the crucible so that inclusions of the superalloy remain in the crucible and are trapped in portions of the molten metal mass in contact with the walls of said crucible which have been cooled.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/522,212, filed on May 11, 1990, now abandoned.
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