Fuels Refractories and Furnaces

At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. appreciate the centrality of the core course to the different specialties of metallurgical engineering; 2. identify and select suitable refractories for the building of specific furnaces; 3. design and build functional furnaces (blast furnace, reverberation furnace, electric furnace, open heath furnace converter and fluidized bed reactors); and 4. carry out tests on coals to ascertain the cokeability and cakeability of such coal as metallurgical fuel and thus make the right choice of fuels for the blast furnace.

Survey of main engineering fuel: solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; classification and testing of fuels; fuels and energy utilisation in the metallurgical industry with reference to coking coals for iron and steel production via blast furnace; introduction to coal and coke technology refractories; technology of production and services of main metallurgical refractories: silicon, magnesite, chrome-magnesite, alumina-silicate and other refractories; special refractories, their evaluation and applications in furnace construction; classification of metallurgical furnaces and reactors, their design and construction.