Theoretical part
• Production and technological requirements for linings of furnaces and heating equipment.
• Principles of the use of refractory materials – decision-making point of view at design of lining.
• Analysis of the consumption of refractory materials in various industrial sectors (metallurgy of ferrous and nonferrous metals, chemical industry, glass, construction materials and matters).
• Basic refractories for furnace construction and its characteristics - shape and unshaped construction materials, thermal insulation materials.
• Influence of insulation in the lining, the basic thermo-technical properties of refractory materials (thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, viscosity, density, bulk density).
• Surface conditions - calculation of the overall heat transfer coefficient on the outside of the lining - the use of criteria equations and equations for radiation heat transfer.
• Thermal work of linings – solving of the temperature field of lining in a time- steady and unsteady state, one-sided heating, heating throughout the volume, continuous and cyclic heating, 1 and 2 Fourier's law, initial and surface conditions.
• Solution unidirectional non-stationary temperature field in an infinite plate and in an infinite cylinder for various marginal conditions (q = const.; tarea = const; tsurf = const.; tsurf = f (time); tarea = f (time), etc.).
• Corrosion effect on the lining and actions to its prevent - study of the interaction between slag and refractory materials (Application of ternary diagrams), a lining cooling.
• Technology of making the linings. Linings of dense shaped material, unshaped building materials, lightweight and fibrous materials. Refractory monolithic linings. Anchoring and hanging of lining.
• Construction of furnace linings energy.
• Lining construction of particular metallurgical aggregates (VP, hot blast, pig iron mixer, converter, tandem furnace, EAF, electric induction furnaces, etc.).
• Lining construction in the secondary metallurgy (ladles, tundish + shielding and immersion tube, equipment vacuum treatment of steel, etc.).
• Lining construction of furnaces in ceramic and glass industry (dryer of matters, chamber furnace, tunnel furnaces, shaft and rotary kilns for firing of raw materials, glass melting furnaces).
• Repair of lining - lining repair technology "cold" and "hot" (shotcreting, slag splashing, slag coating, etc.), ways of increasing the life of a furnaces lining and thermal devices.
Practical part
• Statistical analysis of multivariate data, linear and polynomial regression - using the least squares method for approximating the dependencies.
• Extended use of built-in features of MS Excel - function IF, LOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, BESSELJ
• Surface conditions - Calculation of the overall heat transfer coefficient on the outside of the lining - the use of criteria equations and equations for radiation heat transfer.
• Solution of temperature field lining - Stationary temperature field one-dimensional (plane wall, cylindrical, spherical). The use of iterative methods.
• Energy Balance - calculating enthalpy linings.
• Solution unidirectional unsteady temperature field in an infinite plate for various boundary conditions (q = const.; tarea = const; tsurf = const.; tsurf = f (time); tarea = f (time), etc.).
• Solution unidirectional unsteady temperature field in an infinite cylinder for various boundary conditions (q = const.; tarea = const; tsurf = const.; tsurf = f (time); tarea = f (time), etc.).
• The calculation procedure of transcendental equations (graphically, numerically), Bessel functions.
• Solution of unsteady temperature field for 3D shapes (cuboid, prism, cylinder).
• Numerical methods (finite difference method).
• Using macros in Excel - View card developer, creating macros, use the controls.
• Basics of programming in VBA - Sub / Function, variable declarations, create your own formulas, creating user forms.
• Excursion blast furnace
• Production and technological requirements for linings of furnaces and heating equipment.
• Principles of the use of refractory materials – decision-making point of view at design of lining.
• Analysis of the consumption of refractory materials in various industrial sectors (metallurgy of ferrous and nonferrous metals, chemical industry, glass, construction materials and matters).
• Basic refractories for furnace construction and its characteristics - shape and unshaped construction materials, thermal insulation materials.
• Influence of insulation in the lining, the basic thermo-technical properties of refractory materials (thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, viscosity, density, bulk density).
• Surface conditions - calculation of the overall heat transfer coefficient on the outside of the lining - the use of criteria equations and equations for radiation heat transfer.
• Thermal work of linings – solving of the temperature field of lining in a time- steady and unsteady state, one-sided heating, heating throughout the volume, continuous and cyclic heating, 1 and 2 Fourier's law, initial and surface conditions.
• Solution unidirectional non-stationary temperature field in an infinite plate and in an infinite cylinder for various marginal conditions (q = const.; tarea = const; tsurf = const.; tsurf = f (time); tarea = f (time), etc.).
• Corrosion effect on the lining and actions to its prevent - study of the interaction between slag and refractory materials (Application of ternary diagrams), a lining cooling.
• Technology of making the linings. Linings of dense shaped material, unshaped building materials, lightweight and fibrous materials. Refractory monolithic linings. Anchoring and hanging of lining.
• Construction of furnace linings energy.
• Lining construction of particular metallurgical aggregates (VP, hot blast, pig iron mixer, converter, tandem furnace, EAF, electric induction furnaces, etc.).
• Lining construction in the secondary metallurgy (ladles, tundish + shielding and immersion tube, equipment vacuum treatment of steel, etc.).
• Lining construction of furnaces in ceramic and glass industry (dryer of matters, chamber furnace, tunnel furnaces, shaft and rotary kilns for firing of raw materials, glass melting furnaces).
• Repair of lining - lining repair technology "cold" and "hot" (shotcreting, slag splashing, slag coating, etc.), ways of increasing the life of a furnaces lining and thermal devices.
Practical part
• Statistical analysis of multivariate data, linear and polynomial regression - using the least squares method for approximating the dependencies.
• Extended use of built-in features of MS Excel - function IF, LOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, BESSELJ
• Surface conditions - Calculation of the overall heat transfer coefficient on the outside of the lining - the use of criteria equations and equations for radiation heat transfer.
• Solution of temperature field lining - Stationary temperature field one-dimensional (plane wall, cylindrical, spherical). The use of iterative methods.
• Energy Balance - calculating enthalpy linings.
• Solution unidirectional unsteady temperature field in an infinite plate for various boundary conditions (q = const.; tarea = const; tsurf = const.; tsurf = f (time); tarea = f (time), etc.).
• Solution unidirectional unsteady temperature field in an infinite cylinder for various boundary conditions (q = const.; tarea = const; tsurf = const.; tsurf = f (time); tarea = f (time), etc.).
• The calculation procedure of transcendental equations (graphically, numerically), Bessel functions.
• Solution of unsteady temperature field for 3D shapes (cuboid, prism, cylinder).
• Numerical methods (finite difference method).
• Using macros in Excel - View card developer, creating macros, use the controls.
• Basics of programming in VBA - Sub / Function, variable declarations, create your own formulas, creating user forms.
• Excursion blast furnace