Mechanism of removing inclusions from molten aluminum by stirring active molten flux

Removal of inclusions from industrial pure molten aluminum(A01) by stirring active molten flux wasstudied. Wettability of nonmetallic inclusions in the molten aluminum was worse than that in active molten flux. Ac-cording to the surface renewal model, the inclusions were easily transferred into molten active flux from fine alumi-num droplets and then reacted chemically when molten aluminum was dispersed into fine aluminum droplets in stir-ring active molten flux. Tensile tests show that tensile strength of purified tensile sample(as-cast) increases by8.59%. SEM photographs show that the fracture cracks of purified tensile sample are homogeneous, and the dim-ples are small and homogeneous. From metallographs and statistic results of Leco analysis software, it is found thatthe quantities and sizes of the inclusions in purified sample are obviously fewer and smaller than in unpurified tensilesample(as-cast).