Non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11371111-B2
Application number	US-201816759787-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 11, 2018
Priority date	Nov 30, 2017
Publication date	Jun 28, 2022
Grant date	Jun 28, 2022

Abstract

Disclosed are a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the mass percentage of the chemical components thereof are: C: 0-0.005%; Si: 2.1-3.2%, Mn: 0.2-1.0%, P: 0-0.2%, Al: 0.2-1.6%, N: 0-0.005%, Ti: 0-0.005%, Cu: 0-0.2%, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; and at the same time, (the S content for forming MnS+the S content for forming CuxS)/the S content in the steel is required to be less than or equal to 0.2. The process for manufacturing the non-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention is simple and convenient, the chemical components of the steel are easy to control, the manufacturing process is stable, and the technical requirements are easy to realize.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties, comprising the following chemical composition in percentage by mass: 0<C≤0.005%, Si: 2.1-3.2%, Mn: 0.2-1.0%, 0<P≤0.2%, Al: 0.2-1.6%, N: 0-0.005%, Ti: 0-0.005%, 0<Cu≤0.2%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and the steel sheet meets the following Formula (1):
(the S content of the forming MnS+the S content of the forming Cu x S)/the S content in the steel≤0.2.

2. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the number of formed MnS having a size in the range of 0.2 μm to 0.5 μm is 5.0×10 8 /mm 3 or less, and in the case of the size of the formed MnS being in the range of 0.2 μm to 1.0 μm, the steel sheet meets the following Formula (2):
(the number of MnS inclusions having a size in the range of 0.5 μm to 1.0 μm)/(the number of MnS inclusions having a size in the range of 0.2 μm to 0.5 μm)≤0.2.

3. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties as claimed in claim 1 , wherein iron loss (Pi 15/50 ) of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet is not more than 2.4 W/kg.

4. A manufacturing method of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties as claimed in claim 1 , comprising the following steps:
1) performing hot metal pretreatment of blast furnace hot metal for desulfurization, demanganization and removal of slag;
2) adding scrap steel and then conducting converter smelting;
3) conducting RH vacuum cycle degassing refining, which comprises:
a) conducting deep decarburization to control the carbon content of liquid steel to 0.005% or less;
b) conducting deoxidation and alloying treatment;
c) optimizing the chemical composition of liquid steel, wherein the mass percentage of each element of the chemical composition in the liquid steel is as follows: 0<C≤0.005%, Si: 2.1-3.2%, Mn: 0.2-1.0%, 0<P≤0.2%, Al: 0.2-1.6%, N: 0-0.005%, Ti: 0-0.005%, 0<Cu≤0.2%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities;
d) refining and degassing;

4) casting the liquid steel to form a slab, wherein in the casting process, the cooling rate is controlled to be 2.5-25° C./min during a cooling process in which the surface temperature of the slab is lowered from 1100° C. to 700° C.;
5) hot rolling;
6) pickling;
7) cold rolling;
8) annealing; and
9) coating.

5. The manufacturing method of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties as claimed in claim 4 , wherein in the casting process of step 4), the cooling rate is controlled to be 2.5-20° C./min during the cooling process in which the surface temperature of the slab is reduced from 1100° C. to 700° C.

6. The manufacturing method of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties as claimed in claim 4 , wherein in the hot rolling of step 5), the rate of cooling a strip steel during a finishing rolling is not more than 20° C./s, the time from the end of the finishing rolling to the start of a water-cooling is not less than 5s, and coiling temperature is not lower than 600° C.

7. The manufacturing method of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties as claimed in claim 6 , wherein in the hot rolling of step 5), the coiling temperature is not lower than 700° C.

Assignees

• Baoshan Iron & Steel

Inventors

• Zhang Feng
• Lv Xuejun
• Wang Bo
• Liu Baojun
• Zong Zhenyu
• Shen Kanyi
• Sun Yezhong

Classifications

• C22C38/06

  containing aluminium · CPC title

• C21D8/1277

  involving a particular surface treatment (C21D8/1294 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C21D8/1272

  Final recrystallisation annealing · CPC title

• C21D6/008 Primary

  containing Si · CPC title

• C22C38/02 Primary

  containing silicon · CPC title