Oxidation of an aluminum-0.4 wt% magnesium alloy
Oxidation of an aluminum-0.4 wt% magnesium alloy
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氧化%20of%20an%20铝-0.4%20wt%%20镁%20合金
DOI:
10.1007/bf00275297
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发表时间:
1996
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通讯作者:
J. S. Kim
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作者:
Dong;E. Yoon;J. S. Kim
The industrial demands of aluminum alloys have been gradually increased today due to their useful properties, such as excellent corrosion resistance and proper strength with lighmess. Following the increasing amount of byproducts, such as Al-scrap, chip and used beverage cans, the aluminum industry demanded a recycling process for economic benefit and environmental conservation. However, significant Al-metal loss during the recycling process is an unavoidable consequence due to the formation of dross as a characteristic of rapid oxidation at high temperature. In the recycling process pretreatment at moderate temperatures (-300 C) of aluminum scraps and chips has to be performed to remove engineering oil-mixtures and other impurities, such as Fe-powder resulting from machining processes. The objective of the recycling process is to minimize the oxidation rate by lowering the operating temperamre and maximize the removal efficiency of the residual oil-mixture and other metal impurities on the surface by raising the operating temperature. Therefore the purpose of the present study is to understand the solid state oxidation in order to determine experimentally the appropriate operating environment for pretreatment of aluminum scrap recycling.It has been shown that, generally, aluminum alloy containing Mg has a different oxidation mechanism from that of pure aluminum. Oxidation of highpurity aluminum below the melting temperature is initially characterized by a near-linear reaction rate, followed by a rate which decreases rapidly with further weight gain. However, the oxidation rate of an aluminum-magnesium alloy does not conform to any common oxidation law, but is nearly parabolic at temperatures between 200 and 400 C, and nearly linear at temperatures above 400 C [1]. In any case, the oxidation rate of the A1-Mg alloy is much faster with large weight gain than that of high-purity aluminum. At a relatively low temperature, oxidation is mainly due to thermal diffusion of A1 or oxygen ions and causes a continuous amorphous oxide film that acts as a diffusion barrier retarding further reaction. At temperatures above 400 C, 7-A1203 nucleates at the metal-oxide interface to break the continuous amorphous oxide film [2]. If the alloy contains magnesium, magnesium facilitates disruption of the continuous oxide film by forming spindlike domains of MgA1204 that allow rapid exchange of oxygen and metal ions through open pathways. In