Non Oriented Electrical Steel Sheet Having Superior Magnetic Properties And A Production Method Therefor
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a non-oriented electrical steel sheet. Provided are: a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having outstanding magnetic properties and comprising as percentages by weight from 1.0 to 3.0% of Al from 0.5 to 2.5% of Si from 0.5 to 2.0% of Mn from 0.001 to 0.004% of N from 0.0005 to 0.004% of S and a balance of Fe and other unavoidably incorporated impurities wherein the Al Mn N and S are included so as to satisfy the compositional formulae {[Al]+[Mn]}≤3.5 0.002≤{[N]+[S]}≤0.006 300≤{([Al]+[Mn])/([N]+[S])}≤1 400; and a production method therefor.
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#1 Goedong-dong Nam-gu Pohang-si Gyeongsangbuk-do 790-300 Republic of Korea
Inventors
1. KIM Jae-Hoon
c/o POSCO #1 Goedong-dong Nam-gu Pohang-si Gyeongsangbuk-do 790-300 Republic of Korea
2. KIM Jae-Kwan
c/o POSCO #1 Goedong-dong Nam-gu Pohang-si Gyeongsangbuk-do 790-300 Republic of Korea
3. KIM Yong-Soo
c/o POSCO #1 Goedong-dong Nam-gu Pohang-si Gyeongsangbuk-do 790-300 Republic of Korea
4. BONG Won-Seog
c/o POSCO #1 Goedong-dong Nam-gu Pohang-si Gyeongsangbuk-do 790-300 Republic of Korea
Specification
DESCRIPTION
NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET HAVING SUPERIOR MAGNETIC
PROPERTIES AND A PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR
Technical Field
The present invention relates to the production of a nonoriented
electrical steel sheet, and particularly to a nonoriented
electrical steel sheet of the highest quality,
wherein the components of steel are optimally designed to
increase the distribution density of coarse inclusions in
steel and to improve growth of grains and mobility of domain
walls, so that magnetic properties are enhanced, and low
hardness is ensured, thus improving productivity and
punchability, and to a method of producing the same.
Background Art
The present invention pertains to the production of a
non-oriented electrical steel sheet useful as a material for
iron cores of rotation devices. This non-oriented electrical
steel sheet is essential in terms of converting electrical
energy into mechanical energy, and thus the magnetic
properties thereof are regarded as very important. The
magnetic properties mainly include core loss and magnetic flux
density. Because the core loss is energy that disappears in
the form of heat in the course of converting energy, it is
good for it to be as low as possible. The magnetic flux
density is a power source of a rotator. The higher the
magnetic flux density, the more favorable the energy
efficiency.
Typically, a non-oriented electrical steel sheet is
composed mainly of Si in order to reduce core loss. When the
amount of Si increases, the magnetic flux density decreases.
If the amount of Si is excessively increased, processability
is decreased making it difficult to perform cold rolling.
Furthermore, the lifetime of a mold may decrease upon punching
by the customer. Hence, attempts are made to decrease the
amount of Si and increase the amount of A1 so as to improve
magnetic properties and mechanical properties. However, the
magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steel sheet of
the highest quality are not obtained, and such sheets have not
yet been actually produced because of difficulties in mass
producing them.
Meanwhile, to obtain a non-oriented electrical steel
sheet with good magnetic properties, impurities including C,
S, N, Ti and so on such as fine inclusions present in steel
are controlled to be minimal and thus the growth of grains
needs to be increased. However, the control of impurities to
the minimum is not easy in a typical production process of
electrical steel sheets, and the cost of a steel making
process may undesirably increase.
The impurities which were not removed in the steel making
process are present in the form of nitrides or sulfides in a
slab upon continuous casting. As the slab is re-heated to
1,10O0C or higher for hot rolling, inclusions such as nitrides
or sulfides may be re-dissolved and then finely precipitated
again upon termination of hot rolling.
The inclusions that are precipitated in typical nonoriented
electrical steel sheets include MnS and AlN, which
are observed to have a small average size of about 50 nm, and
such fine inclusions may hinder the growth of grains upon
annealing thus increasing hysteresis loss and obstructing the
movement of domain walls upon magnetization, undesirably
lowering permeability.
Therefore, in the process of producing the non-oriented
electrical steel sheet, impurities are appropriately
controlled from the steel making process so that such fine
inclusions are not present, and the residual inclusions should
be prevented from being more finely precipitated via redissolution
upon hot rolling.
Disclosure
Technical Problem
Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping
in mind the above problems occurring in the related art, and
an object of the present invention is to provide a nonoriented
electrical steel sheet of the highest quality,
wherein the proportions of Al, Si and Mn which are alloy
elements of steel and N and S which are impurity elements of
steel are optimally controlled so that the distribution
density of coarse inclusions in steel is increased and the
formation of fine inclusions is decreased, thus enhancing the
growth of grains and the mobility of domain walls to thereby
manifest excellent magnetic properties, and also superior
productivity and punchability because of low hardness.
Technical Solution
In order to accomplish the above object, an aspect of the
present invention provides a non-oriented electrical steel
sheet having superior magnetic properties, comprising 0.7 -
3.0% of Al, 0.2 - 3.5% of Si, 0.2 - 2.0% of Mn, 0.001 - 0.004%
of N, 0.0005 - 0.004% of S, and a balance of Fe and other
inevitable impurities by wt%, and satisfying at least one of
Conditions (I), (2) and (3) below: Condition (1):
0.0024{ [N] + [S] )50.006, 2301{ ( [~l+] [M n]) / ( [N]+ [S] ) }