Effect of additives promoting the formation of lustrous carbon on the knocking out properties of foundry sands with new inorganic binders

The article presents the results of investigations, which make a fragment of the broad-scale studies carried out as a part of the statutory activity on optimising the foundry sand technology using new, modified, inorganic binders. The results of investigations regarding the effect of lustrous carbon carriers on the technological properties of foundry sands with inorganic binders were presented in a concise manner. The selected additives were introduced to moulding sands prepared with the new, modified, inorganic binders bonded by the chemical reaction or by blowing with gaseous CO2. Attention was focussed on the effect of selected additives promoting the formation of lustrous carbon on the knocking out properties of moulds and cores prepared from sands with the new types of inorganic binders. The quality of the test castings was also evaluated along with the tendency to the formation of lustrous carbon at the metal - mould interface, basing on the results of microscopic examinations and analysis of the chemical composition using an X-ray microanalyser.