The invention discloses a grain refiner for ferritic stainless steel
continuous casting. The grain refiner comprises, by weight percentage, 0.01%-0.05% of TiC
powder and 99.95%-99.99% of pure Fe
powder; the grain size of the TiC
powder is smaller than 1
micrometer, the grain size of the pure Fe powder ranges from 10 micrometers to 20 micrometers, and the density of particles of the TiC powder in the grain refiner is larger than 20000 units / mm<3>. The preparing method of the grain refiner includes the following steps that (1) material
grinding is carried out, wherein large-particle TiC prepared through a carbon thermal reduction process is placed into a planetary mill to be ground,
grinding is carried out until the mean grain size is smaller than 1
micrometer, and micron order TiC powder is obtained; (2) even mixing is carried out, wherein the obtained micron order TiC powder and the pure Fe powder with the grain size
ranging from 10 micrometers to 20 micrometers are weighed according to the weight percentages of the raw materials to be placed into a
ball mill for even mixing; and (3) hot isostatic pressure molding is carried out, wherein mixed powder obtained after even mixing in the step (2) is subject to hot isostatic pressure molding. During ferritic stainless steel
continuous casting production, the grain refiner is added, the proportion of columnar crystals of a ferritic stainless steel
continuous casting blank is greatly reduced, the isometric
crystal proportion is improved to 70% or above, and the grain refinement effect is remarkable.