Copper in Super304H Heat Resistant Steel电厂规程必看.pdf

Copper in Super304H Heat Resistant Steel S.C. Cheng, Z.D.Liu, G. Yang, Y.Yang, L.M.Wang, X.J.Sun, H.Dong Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing, 100081, China Abstract: The authors experimentally investigated the effect of Cu addition on the property of Super304H steel. It was found that with the increase of Cu addition, the creep rupture strength of the steel increases. The creep rupture strength and plasticity meet the peak at the same time when Cu addition is about 4%. The major precipitates are Cu-rich phase, M C , MC, and M C. It was demonstrated that the nano-scale 23 6 6 (~30 nm) Cu-rich phase, precipitated during aging, strengthens the steel. Key words: Super304H, Cu addition, nano-scale Cu-rich phase, strengthening 1. Introduction Super304H steel is novel heat resistant steel, developed in 1990s, which was mainly proposed to make superheat tubes and reheat tubes of ultra supercritical boilers with a higher steam parameter. One feature of Super304H steel is the addition of copper, which results in obvious improvement of its creep rupture strength. The authors of the present paper experimentally explored the effect of copper addition on the properties of Super304H steel and attempted to seek the influential mechanism of copper addition, through which, to propose an optimal copper concentration for the steel. The matter is of industrial importance. 2. Experimental The experimental steel was firstly melt by a 200 Kg VIM furnace at the Central Iron and Steel Research Institute with the same copper content. And then, the copper concentration was adjusted by re-melting the steel in a 25 Kg VIM furnace and the achieved chemical compositions were listed in Table 1. Table 1 Chemical c