Flux For Aluminum Melting is the solid substance (commonly mixtures of chloride and fluoride salts) used in Rusal aluminum foundries. Fluxes can reduce the melt oxidation, minimize penetration of the atmospheric Hydrogen, absorb non-metallic inclusions suspended in the melt, keep the furnace/ladle wall clean from the built up oxides, decrease the content of aluminum entrapped in the dross, remove hydrogen dissolved in the melt, provide aluminum grain refining during Solidification, modify silicon inclusions in silicon containing alloys, oxidize excessive magnesium.
Fluxes composed of chlorine and fluorine containing salts are used for degassing molten aluminum alloys. Degassing fluxes are commonly shaped in form of tablets. Degassing operation starts when a flux tablet is plunged by a clean preheated perforated bell to the furnace bottom.
The flux components react with aluminum forming gaseous compounds (aluminum chloride, aluminum fluoride). The gas is bubbling and rising through the melt. The partial pressure of hydrogen in the formed bubbles is very low therefore it diffuses from the molten aluminum into the bubbles. The bubbles escape from the melt and the gas is then removed by the exhausting system. The process continues until bubbling ceases.
Flux For Rusal Aluminum Melting may also be introduced by an injection method. In this case, the inert gas serves as the carrier for granulated flux. Besides the degassing effect, the degassing treatment allows removing non-metallic inclusions suspended in the melt (cleaning effect).
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