Electrode heating effects on preparation of Al-65V alloy

Abstract

In this study, Al-65V alloy has been produced by electrode heating for 3–15 min. The impurities content, microstructure and the vanadium content of the alloy in the slag are investigated. The results indicate that different heating time shows obviously impacts not only on the impurities and microstructure of AlV alloy, but also on the vanadium recovery rate of slag. The impurities contents of C, O and N are 0.085%, 0.022% and 0.036%, respectively, which meet the commercial standard when the electric heating time is controlled to 10 min, and the content of vanadium in slag is 0.18%.

Keywords

Al-65V alloy / electrode heating / impurities content / microstructure

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