Refractories PDF UPES
Refractories PDF UPES
Refractories PDF UPES
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Silica brick are made from hard dense fine grained
quartz, have following properties ;
Low porosity & free from air pockets,
Good thermal expansion & conductivity
Excellent load bearing capacity mainly at high temp.
Not susceptible to thermal spalling at temp above
400.
Silica bricks are extremely suitable for those parts of
furnace which are subjected to uniform high temp.
like fire bridge, roofs of acid & basic open 7 hearth
furnace, electric furnace, refining furnaces
FIRE CLAY : Main constituent of fire clay is
kaolinte,Al2O3.2SiO2.2 H2O. At high temp the
. clays lose their water of hydration & mainly
fire
consists of alumina & silica.
Fire clay bricks have low coefficient of thermal
expansion, sufficient strength at high temp.
Resist spalling.
Fire clay bricks are used as linings of blast
furnaces for the melting of Fe, Cu, lead ores.
Basic Refractories : Consists mainly of basic
oxides without free silica & resist the action of
.
bases.
Most common basic refractories are
magnesite,dolomite,lime etc
Magnesite is made by dead burning the mineral
magnesite which is magnesium carbonate.
Magnesite starts losing strength at temp above
1500.
Used for hearths of basic open hearth & copper
reverberatory furnaces. Electric & induction
furnace lining of L.D. crucible.
Neutral refractories : are substances which do
not combine either acidic or basic oxides & for
. reason constitute the most satisfactory
this
furnace lining . Example chromite & carbon in
graphite form.