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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Equipment of Ceramic Plants

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-3006/01
Abbreviation ZKZ
Course title Equipment of Ceramic Plants
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Mario Machů, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Principles for choice and design of ceramic plants equipment.
2. Mining of raw materials - excavators, loaders. Types, use.
3. Transport of raw materials - transport of loose and granular materials (repose angle, belt conveyors, bucket elevators and screw conveyors)
4. Transport of powdered materials (Fuller pump, container type Cerra), transport of liquids (pumps, efficiency pumps and their control).
5. Feeders - types, use.
6. Crushing - crushers (types, use).
7. Crushing - mills (types, use).
8. Non-mechanical size reduction methods.
9. Separating – sieves, grates, screens, network types, network analysis.
10. Mixing and homogenization – mounds, particular types of mixers.
11. Pressing – dry and semi-dry pressing. Granulation – spray dryer.
12. One-sided and double-sided pressing, wet pressing, isostatic pressing, method principle, pressing short-acting forces (vibrating, ramming, vibratory compaction).
13. Plastic moulding - extrusion (Extruder), the presence of air in a plastic paste, jollying.
14. Casting - Requirements for casting slurry, rheology, viscosity, thixotropy, plaster mould (hollow casting and core casting), battery casting.

Literature

[1] CARTER C. B., NORTON M. G. Ceramic Materials, 2007. ISBN 978-0-387-46271-4.

Advised literature

[1] ROUTSCHKA, G. Refractory materials: Basics – Structures – Properties. 2nd Ed. Essen: Vulkan Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-8027-3154-9.