Determining Temperature Dependencies of Sand Mould Thermal Properties

The presented work is aimed at determining thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity and heat capacity coefficients of silica quartz bentonite foundry sand. The values of the above thermo-physical properties were determined for temperature range of about 30 - 450 °C using the Casting measuring method [1-. The results obtained during the examinations presented in the paper can be useful when formulating boundary conditions in numerical models of heat and mass transfer in the system: casting mould ambient. The Casting method allows preserving real conditions during the experiment, i.e. contact of the mass with liquid metal and solidifying casting, and the obtained results are in a good agreement with the mean values available in literature. From the obtained results it follows that examinations should be also focused on thermo-physical properties vs. mass density dependency.