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laminations for electric motors difficult. Since amorphous ribbon can be cast to any specific width under roughly 13 inches and can be sheared with relative ease, it is a suitable material for wound electrical transformer cores. In 2019 the price of amorphous steel outside the US is approximately $ .95/pound compared to HiB grain-oriented steel which costs approximately $ .86/pound.
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coating, full heat treatment, and defined magnetic properties, for applications where punching does not significantly degrade the electrical steel properties. Excessive bending, incorrect heat treatment, or even rough handling can adversely affect electrical steel's magnetic properties and may also
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CRNGO is less expensive than CRGO. It is used when cost is more important than efficiency and for applications where the direction of magnetic flux is not constant, as in electric motors and generators with moving parts. It can be used when there is insufficient space to orient components to take
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CRGO is usually supplied by the producing mills in coil form and has to be cut into "laminations", which are then used to form a transformer core, which is an integral part of any transformer. Grain-oriented steel is used in large power and distribution transformers and in certain audio output
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prepared by pouring molten alloy onto a rotating cooled wheel, which cools the metal at a rate of about one megakelvin per second, so fast that crystals do not form. Amorphous steel is limited to foils of about 50 μm thickness. The mechanical properties of amorphous steel make stamping
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Non-grain-oriented electrical steel (NGOES) is mainly used in rotating equipment, for example, electric motors, generators and over frequency and high-frequency converters. Grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), on the other hand, is used in static equipment such as transformers.
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Electrical steel can be delivered in a semi-processed state so that, after punching the final shape, a final heat treatment can be applied to form the normally required 150-micrometer grain size. Fully processed electrical steel is usually delivered with an
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by about three times compared to conventional steel. However, the grain structure hardens and embrittles the metal; this change adversely affects the workability of the material, especially when rolling. When alloying, contamination must be kept low, as
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aging when it slowly leaves the solid solution and precipitates as carbides, thus resulting in an increase in power loss over time. For these reasons, the carbon level is kept to 0.005% or lower. The carbon level can be reduced by
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Electrical steel is an iron alloy which may have from zero to 6.5% silicon (Si:5Fe). Commercial alloys usually have silicon content up to 3.2% (higher concentrations result in brittleness during cold rolling).
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The size of magnetic domains in sheet electrical steel can be reduced by scribing the surface of the sheet with a laser, or mechanically. This greatly reduces the hysteresis losses in the assembled core.
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electrical steel usually has a silicon level of 3% (Si:11Fe). It is processed in such a way that the optimal properties are developed in the rolling direction, due to a tight control (proposed by
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and, for common grades of electrical steel, may range from about 2 to 10 watts per kilogram (1 to 5 watts per pound) at 60 Hz and 1.5
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Electrical steel is usually coated to increase electrical resistance between laminations, reducing eddy currents, to provide resistance to
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Niazi, A.; Pieri, J. B.; Berger, E.; Jouty, R. (1975). "Note on electromigration of grain boundaries in silicon iron".
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steel, usually has a silicon level of 2 to 3.5% and has similar magnetic properties in all directions, i.e., it is
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Silicon increases the electrical resistivity of iron by a factor of about 5; this change decreases the induced
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as the main additive element (instead of carbon). The exact formulation is tailored to produce specific
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Non-oriented electrical silicon steel (image made with magneto-optical sensor and polarizer microscope)
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Magnetic domains and domain walls in non-oriented silicon steel (image made with CMOS-MagView)
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The magnetic properties of electrical steel are tested using the internationally standard
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Magnetic domains and domain walls in oriented silicon steel (image made with CMOS-MagView)
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Magnetic domains and domain walls in oriented silicon steel (image made with CMOS-MagView)
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Electrical steel made without special processing to control crystal orientation,
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advantage of the directional properties of grain-oriented electrical steel.
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can have core losses of one-third that of conventional electrical steels.
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strips less than 2 mm thick. These strips are cut to shape to make
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density is increased by 30% in the coil rolling direction, although its
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is decreased by 5%. It is used for the cores of power and distribution
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A976-03 classifies different types of coating for electrical steel.
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of grain oriented electrical steel after coating has been removed.
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The magnetic properties of electrical steel are dependent on
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of the core and limited the maximum temperature of the core.
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Inorganic filled organic coating for insulation properties
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Coating generated by chemical and thermal processing
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Transformer steel
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Polycrystalline structure
iron
silicon
magnetic
hysteresis
core loss
permeability
cold-rolled
laminations
laminated cores
transformers
stator
rotor
electric motors
wire electrical discharge machining
Manganese
aluminum
eddy currents
hysteresis loop
core loss
carbides
sulfides
oxides
nitrides

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