Thermal experiment study on the self-luminous properties of metallic iron during solid–liquid phase transition

Abstract

According to the thermal experiment study of the self-luminescence spectrum of industrially pure iron (DT8) at a heating and cooling rate of 5 °C/min, at the moment of 0 (800 °C), DT8 had no significant self-luminescence characteristics in the wavelength range of 200–1100 nm. At the same time, the first-order differentiation of the spectral intensity versus time was equal to zero at the beginning and end moments of the solid-liquid phase transition. When the solid-liquid melt temperatures are equal (i.e. 1531 °C), there are two sharp peaks at wavelengths of 589.1 nm and 766.7 nm of the self-luminous spectrum in the pure liquid state compared to the self-luminous spectrum in the pure solid state. The intensity of the spectrum decreases significantly as the metallic iron changes from the pure solid phase to the pure liquid phase, with a reduction rate greater than 20%. The appearance of the fitted peaks at 589.1 nm and 769 nm was found by XPS fitting analysis to be a significant feature of the difference in the auto-luminescence spectra of pure solid phase and pure liquid phase metallic iron at a constant melt pool temperature. After the transformation of pure solid phase into pure liquid phase, the decay rate of the self-luminous spectrum in the long-wave direction at wavelengths greater than 762 nm is greater than that in the short-wave direction at wavelengths less than 625 nm.