635-3006/01 – Equipment of Ceramic Plants (ZKZ)
Gurantor department | Department of Thermal Engineering | Credits | 6 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Mario Machů, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Mario Machů, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2014/2015 | Year of cancellation | 2023/2024 |
Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course aim is that student will be well versed throughout the technological flow of production of ceramic materials, and not only in technology, but primarily in terms of mechanical. It means, that student will understand the principles of equipment used in current ceramic factories, starting from extraction and processing of raw materials to the final shaping. On this basis, the student will be able to select individually an equipment (machines) for each technology, types of ceramic materials, the properties of the final products, etc.
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Summary
Principles for choice and design of ceramic plants equipment.
Equipment for mining and loading of raw materials. Machines and devices for the material handling. Particle materials and systems. Crushing, separating, mixing and homogenization of masses. Shaping methods – methods of pressing, plastic shaping, shaping from melts and slurries – casting. Other devices.
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Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Visits to ceramic factories.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
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.
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