Metallurgical Fuels, Refractories and Furnaces

The students will be: 1. made to appreciate the centrality of the core course to the different specialties of metallurgical engineering; 2. capable of identifying and selecting suitable refractories for the building of specific furnaces; 3. capable of attempting to design and build functional furnaces: Blast furnace, reverberation furnace, electric furnace, open heath furnace converter, and fluidized bed reactors; and 4. in a position to 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.

Fuels: Survey of main engineering fuel: solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; fuels and energy utilization 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; Furnaces: Classification of metallurgical furnaces and reactors, applications, their design and construction.