TY - JOUR N2 - Nickel alloys belong to the group of most resistant materials when used under the extreme operating conditions, including chemically aggressive environment, high temperature, and high loads applied over a long period of time. Although in the global technology market one can find several standard cast nickel alloys, the vast majority of components operating in machines and equipment are made from alloys processed by the costly metalworking operations. Analysis of the available literature and own studies have shown that the use of casting technology in the manufacture of components from nickel alloys poses a lot of difficulty. This is due to the adverse technological properties of these alloys, like poor fluidity, high casting shrinkage, and above all, high reactivity of liquid metal with the atmospheric air over the bath and with the ceramic material of both the crucible and foundry mold. The scale of these problems increases with the expected growth of performance properties which these alloys should offer to the user. This article presents the results of studies of physico-chemical interactions that occur between theH282alloy melt and selected refractory ceramic materials commonly used in foundry. Own methodology for conducting micro-melts on a laboratory scale was elaborated and discussed. The results obtained have revealed that the alumina-based ceramics exhibits greater reactivity in contact with the H282 alloy melt than the materials based on zirconium compounds. In the conducted experiments, the ceramic materials based on zirconium silicate have proved to be a much better choice than the zirconia-silica mixture. Regardless of the type of the ceramic materials used, the time and temperature of their contact with the nickel alloy melt should always be limited to an absolutely necessary minimum required by the technological regime. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/88352/PDF/16_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/88352 PY - 2014 IS - No 4 DO - 10.2478/afe-2014-0091 KW - Nickel alloys KW - Superalloys KW - Melting KW - Reactivity KW - Metal/ceramic reaction KW - Refractory materials A1 - Pirowski, Z. PB - The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences DA - 2014 T1 - Evaluation of High-temperature Physicochemical Interactions Between the H282Alloy Melt and Ceramic Material of the Crucible UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/88352 T2 - Archives of Foundry Engineering ER -