635-3046/01 – Ceramic materials in metallurgy (KMIM)
| Gurantor department | Department of Thermal Engineering | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Hana Ovčačíková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Hana Ovčačíková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student will be able:
- to identify the differences between ceramic materials and metallic materials
- to determine the advantages of individual types of ceramic materials
- decide on the use of specific ceramic materials under defined conditions
- to apply the acquired knowledge in the processes of the production and its utilization of ceramic materials
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
The course is focused on obtaining a basic overview of traditional and refractory ceramic materials. Attention is paid to the basic characteristics of ceramic materials and to the systems of raw materials for their production. The course presents the characteristics and properties of ceramic materials, including the processes of their shaping and other stages of ceramics production technology. Part of the subject is characteristic of the properties and application of refractory ceramic materials in practice, especially for metallurgy plants.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Written test and oral exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
Attendance on excursions in producing plants.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
• Characteristics and scope of the field, definition and overview of ceramic materials.
• Characterization of the structure and properties of ceramic materials with respect to their differentiation from metallic materials.
• Definition of chemical and phase components of ceramic materials, differences between glass and crystalline phases.
• Characterization of raw materials for the production of ceramic products, basic oxides and SiO2-Al2O3 systems.
• Phase equilibrium in ceramic materials, changes of phase composition with change of temperature, solids dissolution in the melt, reaction of solids.
• Technology of production of ceramic materials, modification of granulometric composition of raw materials mixtures, basic methods of shaping ceramics.
• Drying of ceramic materials. Safe and dangerous drying area, Bigot curve, temperature and time regime of drying, sintering of ceramic products, sintering reactions, sintering in the presence and absence of melt.
• General principles of choice of ceramic materials for industrial applications, traditional technical ceramic materials based on clay raw materials, properties and possibilities of their utilization
• Main types of refractory shaped dense materials according to chemical and phase composition and their properties.
• Main types of refractory non-woven materials according to chemical and phase composition and their properties.
• Thermally insulating ceramic materials. Method of production of light weight products.
• Application of ceramic materials in the metallurgy industry, materials for low-temperature and for high temperature applications.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction