618-1404/01 – Foundry Machinery and Equipment (ZS)
| Gurantor department | Department of Metallurgy and Foundry | Credits | 7 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Tomáš Válek, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Tomáš Válek, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2012/2013 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- the student will be able to characterize systemization of machinery and equipment of foundries
- the student will be able to describe the premises for preparation of raw materials, equipment for batch mixture preparation, and equipment of melting shops
- the student will be able to assess suitable machinery for moulding and core making
- the student will be able to assess suitable machinery and equipment for production of casts poured into permanent moulds
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Other activities
Summary
The subject deals with theoretical and practical aspects connected with machinery and equipment of foundries. Questions related to foundries for art casting are concentrated on. Attention is paid to areas of preparation of raw materials, equipment for batch mixture preparation, transport, lifting equipment and plants of melting shops.Machinery for preparation of sand mixtures and automated forming lines are presented. Machinery and equipment for individual types of casting confirm the complexity of the function of the equipment. Dealing with environmental problems, waste economy and safety at work have become an important part of operation of foundries.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Two written pieces of semester work and their defence in the framework of seminars during tuition
E-learning
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1) Significance of foundry technology, production types of foundry plants.
2) Areas for preparation of raw materials and equipment for preparation of charge.
3) Production aggregates in foundries.
4) Equipment of melting shops, lining of production aggregates.
5) Basic components of production aggregates.
6) Pouring equipment.
7) Dressing shops for new and regenerative sand mixtures, regeneration.
8) Mechanisation of moulding shops, machines for moulding in frames, automatic moulding lines.
9) Sand slingers, equipment for ST technology, manufacture of shell moulds, V – process and investment casting.
10) Machines and equipment for manufacture of cores.
11) Machines and equipment for casting into ingots and for low-pressure casting.
12) Machines and equipment for centrifugal and die casting.
13) Equipment for cleaning of surface of castings and release of castings from the moulds. Equipment for finishing of castings.
14) Environment, wastes and safety of operation.
Practikal:
1) Occupational safety training. Tour at the FMME laboratories, scientific-research activities.
2) Fundaments of technical drawing of machinery components I.
3) Technical-economic indicators of foundries. Solution of operational sets of foundries.
4) Bases of technical drawing of machinery components II.
5) Designing of production sets.
6) Designing of production set for manufacture of cores and for melting shop.
7) Release of castings from the moulds. Production set of castings cleaning shop and sand – preparing plant. Sets of warehouses.
8) Transport in foundry. Spatial lay-out of production sets in foundry.
9) Monitoring of lay-out of production sets at foundry shop.
10) Seminar – selected issues of monitoring of lay-out of production sets at foundry shop. specification for preparation of a report.
11) Environment and occupational hygiene in foundries.
12) Reading room – selection and processing of topical literary sources from the field of foundry machinery and equipment.
13) Seminar – presentation of results of bibliographic search and study of literature.
14) Delivery and evaluation of the report from the semestral tasks. Credits.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction