Method for producing oriented electrical steel sheet with ultra-low iron loss
Provided is a method for producing an oriented electrical steel sheet with an ultra-low iron loss. The method for producing an oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present disclosure is a method for producing an oriented electrical steel sheet comprising the processes of performing reheating, hot rolling, hot-rolled sheet annealing, cold rolling, primary recrystallization annealing and secondary recrystallization annealing on a steel slab, whereby a ceramic coating layer is formed by subjecting a gas-phase ceramic precursor to a contact reaction in a plasma state using the atmospheric pressure plasma CVD (APP-CVD) process, on a part of or the entire one or both surfaces of a steel sheet which has been subjected to the primary recrystallization annealing, and then secondary recrystallization annealing is performed thereon.
1. A method of manufacturing an oriented electrical steel sheet including processes of reheating a steel slab, hot-rolling the steel slab to obtain a steel sheet, hot-rolled sheet annealing, cold-rolling the steel sheet, the method further comprising:
primary recrystallization annealing the steel sheet;
forming a ceramic coating layer by allowing a gas-phase ceramic precursor to contact-react with a portion or an entire portion of one surface or both surfaces of the primary recrystallization annealed steel sheet in a plasma state using an atmospheric pressure plasma CVD process (APP-CVD); and
secondary recrystallization annealing the steel sheet on which the ceramic coating layer is formed.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the atmospheric pressure plasma CVD process comprises: generating a plasma by forming an electrical field on a surface of the steel sheet using a radio frequency under atmospheric pressure; and forming the ceramic coating layer by, mixing the gas-phase ceramic precursor with a primary gas comprised of one or more of Ar, He, and N 2 so as to prepare a mixture thereof, and then allowing the mixture to contact-react with the portion or the entire portion of the one surface or both surfaces of the steel sheet.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the ceramic coating layer is formed by adding a second gas comprised of one of H 2 , O 2 , and H 2 O to the primary gas and the ceramic precursor so as to prepare a mixture thereof, and then allowing the mixture to contact-react with the surface of the steel sheet.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the primary gas and the secondary gas are heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a vaporizing point of the ceramic precursor.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein, the ceramic coating layer is TiO 2 , and the ceramic precursor is titanium isopropoxide or TiCl 4 .
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the primary recrystallization annealing process includes decarburizing and nitriding the steel sheet at the same time or nitriding the steel sheet after decarburizing, annealing the steel sheet, and obtaining the decarburized and annealed steel sheet.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the secondary recrystallization annealing process is a high-temperature annealing process including two-stage heating the steel sheet on which the ceramic coating layer is formed and performing a soaking treatment on the steel sheet.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising forming an insulating film on a surface of the steel sheet on which the ceramic coating layer is formed, after the secondary recrystallization annealing process.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet includes, by weight %:
2.6-4.5% of silicon (Si),
0.020-0.040% of aluminum (Al),
0.01-0.20% of manganese (Mn), and
a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities.