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KMID : 0895420060160030254
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Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Enviromental Hygiene
2006 Volume.16 No. 3 p.254 ~ p.263
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Generation Rate and Content Variation of Manganese in Stainless Steel Welding
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Yoon Chung-Sik
Kim Jeong-Han
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Abstract
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Manganese has a role as both toxic and essential in humans. Manganese is also an essential component in the welding because it increases the hardness and strength, prevents steel from cracking of welding part and acts as a deoxidizing agent to form a stable weld. In this study, manganese generation rate and its content was determined in flux cored arc welding on stainless steel. Domestic two products and foreign four products of flux cored wires were tested in the well designed fume generation chamber as a function of input power. Welding fume was measured by gravimetric method and metal manganese was determined by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrophotometer. The outer shell of the flux cored wire tube and inner flux were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy to determine their metal compositions. Manganese generation rate(FGRmn) was increased as the input power increased. It was 16.3 ㎎/min at the low input power, 38.1 ㎎/min at the optimal input power, and up to 55.4 ㎎/min at the high input power. This means that FGRmn is increased at the work place if welder raise the current and/or voltage for the high productivity. The slope coefficient of FGRmn was smaller than that of the generation rate of total fume(FGR). Also, the correlation coefficient of FGRmn was 0.65 whereas that of FGR is 0.91. FGRmn was equal or higher in the domestic products than that of the foreign products although FGR was similar. From the electron microscopic analytical data, we concluded that outer shell of the wire was composed mainly of iron, chromium, nickel and less than 1.2 % of manganese. There are many metal ingredients such as iron, silica, manganese, zirconium, titanium, nickel, potassium, and a luminum in the inner flux but they were not homogeneous. It was found that both FGRmn and content of manganese was higher and more varied in domestic flux cored wires than those of foreign products. To reduce worker exposure to fumes and hazardous component at the source, further research is needed to develop new welding filler materials that improve the quality of flux cored wire in respect to these points. Welder should keep in mind that the FGR, FGRmn and probably the generation rate of other hazardous metals were increased as the input power increase for the high productivity.
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KEYWORD
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flux cored arc welding, fume, fume generation rate, input power, manganese, stainless steel
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