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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Furnaces in Ceramic Industry

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-0811/02
Abbreviation PKPr
Course title Furnaces in Ceramic Industry
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jozef Vlček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures
1) Division of furnaces and heating equipment in the manufacture of ceramics and glass.
2) The characteristics of portable effects.
3) Sharing of momentum, energy and matter - applications.
4) The technological processes of drying, burning and melting.
5) Dryer materials and products.
6) Ovens mortar: a rotating shaft. Clinker coolers.
7) Ceramic Kilns: periodic and continuous.
8) Furnaces glass: melting, cooling, tempering, and refining.
9) Structural elements of the furnaces.
10) Calculations of furnaces and dryers.
Exercise
1) Division of furnaces and heating equipment in the manufacture of ceramics and glass.
2) The characteristics of portable effects.
3) Sharing of momentum, energy and matter - applications.
4) The technological processes of drying, burning and melting.
5) Dryer materials and products.
6) Ovens mortar: a rotating shaft. Clinker coolers.
7) Ceramic Kilns: periodic and continuous.
8) Furnaces glass: melting, cooling, tempering, and refining.
9) Structural elements of the furnaces.
10) Calculations of furnaces and dryers.

E-learning

in preparation

Literature

1. ROUTSCHA, G. Refractory materials: Basics – structures Propeties. 2nd Ed. Essen: Vulkan Verlang, 2004. 512 p
2. FINN, C. Furnaces and related equipment, ASM International, 1991.

Advised literature

Journal of the European Ceramic Society.
Journal of Materials Science.