Designing of Flux Composition in Copper Alloy Melting Process to Achieve Good Balance between Suppression of Refractory Corrosion and Acceleration of MnO Dissolution into Flux Using Neural Network and Thermodynamic Computation
Itaru Hasegawa, T. Koizumi, K. Kita, Masanori Suzuki, Toshihiro Tanaka
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A new method of designing a fl ux for the copper alloy melting process that can achieve a good balance between the suppression of refractory corrosion by the fl ux and the acceleration of MnO dissolution into the fl ux was proposed. In this study, NN ( neural network ) computation was used to evaluate the refractory corrosion by the fl ux, and the predicted amounts of corrosion of refractories were in good agreement with experimental data. For the evaluation of the properties related to the MnO dissolution into the fl ux, both the viscosity of fl uxes and the activity of MnO in fl uxes were examined using thermodynamic analysis. By integrating the results of the above evaluations, an e ffi cient method of designing the fl ux composition was devised. As an example of the application for this method, SiO 2 – 55mass % Na 2 O fl ux was found to be the optimal fl ux when Al 2 O 3 refractory was employed. [ doi:10.2320 / jinstmet.J2020063 ]