Publication detail

Metal Degassing by Means of Vacuum Cap (VCAP) Technology for Enhanced Material Properties

VICARIO, I. TESKE, A. SCHMILINSKY, E. MYŠKA, M. RITZENHOFF, R.

English title

Metal Degassing by Means of Vacuum Cap (VCAP) Technology for Enhanced Material Properties

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

Conventional air melting processes have limited control on the alloy cleanliness, composition, and other metallurgical issues like oxygen and nitrogen high levels, low vapor pressure tramp elements high content, and eventually also high carbon content. VCAP technology can be considered an alternative and advanced technology to deal with all these challenges. It is a hybrid between vacuum and air melting processes, and it produces significant degassing effect, removal of tramp elements, decarburization and other metallurgical benefits. These metallurgical advantages improve mechanical properties and also a great reduction of the scatter in product properties and characteristics, ultimately resulting in less rejections. © 2023 by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology.

English abstract

Conventional air melting processes have limited control on the alloy cleanliness, composition, and other metallurgical issues like oxygen and nitrogen high levels, low vapor pressure tramp elements high content, and eventually also high carbon content. VCAP technology can be considered an alternative and advanced technology to deal with all these challenges. It is a hybrid between vacuum and air melting processes, and it produces significant degassing effect, removal of tramp elements, decarburization and other metallurgical benefits. These metallurgical advantages improve mechanical properties and also a great reduction of the scatter in product properties and characteristics, ultimately resulting in less rejections. © 2023 by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology.

Keywords in English

air melting; decarburization; deoxidation; tramp elements; vacuum melting; VCAP

Released

08.05.2023

Publisher

Association for Iron and Steel Technology

Location

Detroit

ISBN

9780930767211

ISSN

1551-6997

Book

AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings

Volume

2023

Number

May

Pages from–to

926–933

Pages count

8

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT187958,
  author="Iñaki {Vicario} and Aaron {Teske} and Eike {Schmilinsky} and Martin {Myška} and Roman {Ritzenhoff},
  title="Metal Degassing by Means of Vacuum Cap (VCAP) Technology for Enhanced Material Properties",
  booktitle="AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings",
  year="2023",
  volume="2023",
  number="May",
  month="May",
  pages="926--933",
  publisher="Association for Iron and Steel Technology",
  address="Detroit",
  isbn="9780930767211",
  issn="1551-6997"
}