The invention belongs to the field of
nonferrous metal aluminum
alloy processing and relates to a flux-free aluminum
alloy additive and a preparation method thereof. The additive is formed by pressing
metal powder and aluminum
powder, and the compositions in weight percentage of the additive are 70 to 95 percent of the
metal powder and 5 to 30 percent of the aluminum powder, wherein the
metal powder in the additive is one type or a plurality of types among iron,
manganese,
copper,
titanium,
chromium and
nickel. The performance of the
metal powder and the aluminum powder meets the demands that: firstly, the purity of the
metal powder is not less than 98 percent, and the average
mean diameter of the powder is between 0.01 and 0.5
millimeter; and secondly, the purity of the aluminum powder is not less than 95 percent, and the average
mean diameter of the powder is between 0.01 and 0.5
millimeter. The preparation method is to uniformly mix the
metal powder and the aluminum powder, to press the mixture into blocks by a press
machine, and to perform hermetical
package. The preparation method has the advantages of simple addition means, quick melting under the condition of normal aluminum
alloy casting temperature, high extraction yield, stable content, easy control, no flux contained, incapability of exhausting
fluorine-containing
pollutant, and improvement of the purity of fused masses.