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Front Mater Sci    2013, Vol. 7 Issue (4) : 413-416    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-013-0219-3
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Possible influence of sulfur content on magnetic aging behaviors of non-oriented electrical steels
Wei-Min MAO(), Ping YANG, Chang-Rong LI
Department of Materials, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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Abstract

Six non-oriented steel sheets of similar grade produced by different steel companies were used to analyze the magnetic aging behaviors after aging at 200°C for 48 h. It was observed that tiny S atoms, besides C and N, could also induce certain increase of core loss during aging. Thermodynamic calculation indicated that the nucleation driving force of FeS is much higher than those of Fe3C and Fe4N at low temperature, while S atoms, which tend to segregated around dislocations and boundaries, would diffuse rapidly along the crystalline defects while FeS particles would form. Therefore, higher content of tiny S atoms could increase core loss during service time of non-oriented steel sheets.

Keywords non-oriented electrical steel      sulfur diffusion      magnetic aging      core loss     
Corresponding Author(s): MAO Wei-Min,Email:wmmao@ustb.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 05 December 2013
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Wei-Min MAO,Ping YANG,Chang-Rong LI. Possible influence of sulfur content on magnetic aging behaviors of non-oriented electrical steels[J]. Front Mater Sci, 2013, 7(4): 413-416.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/foms/EN/Y2013/V7/I4/413
SampleContentP1.5/50 /(W·kg-1)ΔP1.5/50 /(W·kg-1)
CSiMnPSAlN
A0.00670.740.340.0560.00370.340.00354.690.002
B0.00640.810.250.0160.00310.400.00254.38-0.123
C0.00430.730.300.0520.00440.250.00464.430.003
D0.00600.540.290.0110.00600.320.00415.070.423
E0.00540.320.410.1000.00370.340.00414.770.009
F0.00410.540.300.0800.00380.210.00314.49-0.050
Tab.1  Composition analysis, core loss () and its increase (Δ) after the aging treatment of 6 experimental non-oriented electrical steel samples
Fig.1  Core loss evolutions during aging at 200°C for 48 h.
Fig.2  Relationship between mole fraction of impurity atoms and increase of core loss after the aging: C+N; S.
Fig.3  Influence of temperature on calculated nucleation driving force of FeC, FeN or FeS particles in Fe–0.004wt.%C, Fe–0.004wt.%N or Fe–0.004wt.%S alloys respectively.
ElementD0 /(cm2·s-1)Q /(kJ·mol-1)
C [14]0.008182.5
N [14]0.00376.53
S [15]34.6231.4
S/boundary [15]19.1135.1
S/dislocation [12]1.56135.0
Tab.2  Diffusion constant and activation energy for diffusion of C, N and S in pure ferrite iron [12,14–15]
Fig.4  Effective diffusion distances in ferrite at 200°C including volume diffusion of C, N and S atoms as well as dislocation or boundary diffusion of S atoms.
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