Electrometallurgy Today, 2018, №04



2018 №04 (01)

DOI of Article 10.15407/sem2018.04.02

2018 №04 (03)

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Electrometallurgy Today (Sovremennaya Elektrometallurgiya), 2018, #4, 36-41 pages
 

Application of electron beam melting for producing zirconium alloys in Ukraine

S.V. Ladokhin¹, V.S. Vakhrusheva²

¹Physical-and-Technological Institute of Metals and Alloys. 34/1 Academician Vernadsky Blvd, 03142, Kyiv. E-mail: e_luch@ptima.kiev.ua
²Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. 24 a Chernyshevsky Str,. 49005, Dnipro. E-mail:Vs062@ukr.net

The expediency of application of technologies of calcium thermal recovery of zirconium from zirconium tetrafluoride and next refining of this metal by the method of electron beam cold hearth melting with a further melting of zirconium alloys from it by the electron beam skull melting with producing cast tubular billets for manufacture of tubes-shells of heat-generating elements of NPP in Ukraine was grounded. Ref. 21, Tabl. 4.
Key words: zirconium; alloys; electron beam melting; vacuum-arc remelting; cast billets; ingot; chemical composition; mechanical properties
 
Received:                03.07.18
Published:               15.11.18
 


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