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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Blast-furnace Plant Equipment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-0410/02
Abbreviation ZVZ
Course title Blast-furnace Plant Equipment
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ján Kret, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Eqipment to adjust the furnace materials. Types and effectiveness of homogenization equipment. Tanks, crushers, separators, metering devices, mixing and combustion equipment.
2. Construction of sintering band and pellets. Sintering sealing strip.
Ignition device. Exhaust system, and electrostatic dust collectors. Sinter coolers, utilization of waste heat.
3. Installations for the production of raw pellets and reinforcement.
4. Arrangement of blast races. Calculation of high-profile furnace. Equipment for
storage and transportation of raw materials
5. The base and steel construction of blast furnace
6. Requirements for lining furnaces. Lining the bottom, hearth, bosh, and belly to the shaft. Troat protection.
7. Cold blast furnace. Construction of cooling elements. Water and evaporative cooling. Cooling valve.
8. Hearth eqipment. Tuyere sets, discharge of pig iron and slag.
9. Filling equipment. Bell and bellles equipment. Work platform furnace and its equipment.
10. Hot blast,stove, the types of structure, bricklaying. Spove fittings Preheating combustion air and gas.
11. Equipment for thick, semi-fine and fine blast furnace gas cleaning. Equipment to increase the pressure in the blast furnace, expander, the turbine.
12. Water blast furnace operations. Inspection, Measuring
and control equipment of blast furnaces.

E-learning

For electronic communication with teachers enjoy university e-mail address:

http://staff.vsb.cz/

There is a continuous expansion of e-learning elements into teaching.

Literature

[1] BABICH, A. at all. Ironmaking. Textbook. RWTH Aachen University, Department of Ferrous Metalurgy, Aachen 2008, 402 s. ISBN 386-13-099-71.
[2] GHOSH, H.; CHATTERJEE, A. Ironmaking and Steelmaking: Theory and Praktice. Textbook. PHI Learning Pyt. Ltd, 2008, 472 p. ISBN 978-81-203-3289-8

Advised literature

[1] BISWAS, A.K. Principles of blast furnace ironmaking. Australia, Brisbane, 1981, 528 s.
[2] KROL, L. Konstrukcja i uradyenia wielkiego pieca. Slask, Katowice1989, 481 s.(polsky)