COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Refractories from the Chemical Point of View. It covers the refractory materials and the role of refractories in high-temperature industries, historical development of refractory technology and the importance of chemical composition in selection; the refractories based on chemical nature, based on physical form, based on production method and based on usage temperature and application; the key refractory raw materials, basic refractory chemistry, thermodynamics and phase stability and corrosion and erosion mechanisms;  and the alumino-silicate refractories, magnesia-based refractories, chromite and spinel refractories, zirconia and high-purity refractories, carbon-containing refractories and bonding mechanisms in refractories. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the chemical attack from slags and fluxes, alkali and sulfur attack in cement and power plants, oxidation and gas phase reactions and hydration and thermal decomposition; the thermal shock and chemical spalling, interaction with molten metals and glass, chemical composition testing and phase identification and microstructure; the refractoriness and softening tests, slag and corrosion testing, thermal and thermochemical tests and chemical durability and lifetime prediction and the refractories in cement and lime industry, refractories in steel and foundry applications, refractories in glass and ceramics, refractories in petrochemical and incineration and refractory failure analysis.