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Title: Refinement of primary Silicon crystals by novel Al-ZnS master alloy in solidification of Hypereutectic Al-Si Alloys
Authors: Al-Helal, K
Stone, I
Fan, Z
Keywords: Hypereutectic Al-Si alloys;Refinement;Primary silicon;Master alloy
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Citation: Light Metals 2016, pp. 271 - 273, (2016)
Abstract: A novel Al-ZnS master alloy was developed by in situ reaction of Zn and Na2S in the Al melt. The results from this study left little doubt that this novel Al-ZnS master alloy was a promising refiner in solidification of hypereutectic Al-Si alloys. It refined the primary silicon to the same extent as that achieved by adding P via Cu-P following the same refinement mechanism. The SEM work confirmed that there were many pre-formed ZnS particles contained in the master alloy. The optical metallography showed that the morphologies of the primary silicon crystals in the solidified Al-22Si alloy were drastically changed from irregular coarse morphology to fine regular particles. The primary silicon crystal was refined from 74 m to 26, 22, 24 m by adding 0.05, 0.1, 0.15 wt% ZnS respectively with holding time of 20 min, where as the average particle size of the primary silicon refined by 200 ppm P reduced to 20 m. With the increase of the holding time up to 1.5 hr, the primary silicon size will increase up to 33 m in adding 0.1 wt% ZnS.
URI: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119274780.ch45/summary;jsessionid=7AB4E26BADE93C09915CD92AB597434C.f02t02
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13265
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119274780.ch45
ISBN: 9781119274780
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