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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Foundry Wastes Recycling – Sand Regeneration 1

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-2025/01
Abbreviation RSM 1
Course title Foundry Wastes Recycling – Sand Regeneration 1
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Lichý, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures
1. Foundry engineering foundry industry in the Czech republic and in the world, statistics
2. Molding materials, sand, binders, mold and core making technologies
3. Ferrous cast alloys . cast irons, steels, metallurgy, properties, recyclability
4. Cast copper alloys, metallurgy, properties, recyclability
5. Cast aluminium alloys, metallurgy, properties, recyclability
6. Cast Mg,Zn,Ti, Pb a Sn alloys, metallurgy, properties, recyclability
7. Foundry wastes- types, quantities, possibilities of wastes minimising in production processes
8. Waste molding and core sands, inorganic and organic binders in point of sand recyclability
9. Sand reclamation techniques – dry, wet, thermal reclamation
10. Reclamation techniques to consider BAT for foundries
11. Reclaim sand properties, methods of evaluation
12. Waste sand external re-use
13. Dust treatment and recycling- recirculation of filter dust into cupola furnace
14. Slags recycling

Practices:
1. Refractory materials for mold and core making, silica and non silica sands, laboratory testing of sands, organic and inorganic binders
2. Laboratory methods of testing the reclaim sand
3. Molding mixtures making and testing – test report
4. Mold and core making technologies, split pattern, simple and complex mold, core making by compactin or hardening
5. Visit of ArcelorMittal Ostrava foundry including dry mechanical regeneration
6. Making of simple mold and core and pouring the own AlSi alloy casting
7. Cast Al,Mg alloys - standards, properties, recyclability
8. Visit of Cromodora Wheels foundry
9. Seminar - BAT reclamation techniques for foundries
10. Ferrous cast alloys . cast irons, steels, standards, properties, recyclability, metallografy – report of microstructure evaluation
11. Visit of Vítkovice foundry including dry mechanical regeneration equiped with magnetic separation
12. Seminar -waste sand external re-use
13. Cast Mg,Zn,Ti, Pb a Sn alloys, standards, properties, recyclability
14. Final test, credit

E-learning

http//:eippcb.jrc.es INTEGRATED POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL,
REFERENCE DOCUMENT ON BEST AVIABLE TECHNIQUES IN THE SMIFHERIES AND FOUNDRIES INDUSTRY

address where pedagogs could be contacted
: http://staff.vsb.cz/

Literature

[1]http//:eippcb.jrc.es INTEGRATED POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL,
REFERENCE DOCUMENT ON BEST AVIABLE TECHNIQUES IN THE SMIFHERIES AND FOUNDRIES INDUSTRY

Advised literature

Schieg,F.P. : Technology of Metalcasting. American Foundry Society,Des Plaines,IL 2003.