There has been a growing interest in the peritectic due to increasing productivity, quality, and alloy development. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) has traditionally been used to study steel solidification but suffers significant limitations when measuring the solidus and peritectic. This work covers a new thermal analysis system that can characterize the peritectic reaction. Heats of AISI/SAE 1030 and 4130 steel were poured to provide some benchmarking of this new technique. The peritectic was detected and the reaction temperature measured. Measurements agree reasonably well with reference information. A review of the literature and thermodynamic calculations did find some disagreement on the exact temperatures for the peritectic and solidus. Some of this difference appears to be related to the experimental techniques employed. It was determined that the system developed accurately indicates these reaction temperatures. The system provides a unique method for examining steel solidification that can be employed on the melt deck.
High-alloy corrosion-resistant ferritic-austenitic steels and cast steels are a group of high potential construction materials. This is
evidenced by the development of new alloys both low alloys grades such as the ASTM 2101 series or high alloy like super or hyper duplex
series 2507 or 2707 [1-5]. The potential of these materials is also presented by the increasing frequency of sintered components made both
from duplex steel powders as well as mixtures of austenitic and ferritic steels [6, 7]. This article is a continuation of the problems presented
in earlier works [5, 8, 9] and its inspiration were technological observed problems related to the production of duplex cast steel.
The analyzed AISI A3 type cast steel is widely used in both wet exhaust gas desulphurisation systems in coal fired power plants as well as
in aggressive working environments. Technological problems such as hot cracking presented in works [5, 8], with are effects of the rich
chemical composition and phenomena occurring during crystallization, must be known to the technologists.
The presented in this work phenomena which occur during the crystallization and cooling of ferritic-austenitic cast steel were investigated
using numerical methods with use of the ThermoCalc and FactSage® software, as well with use of experimental thermal-derivative
analysis.