Czech

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Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)

Theoretical and Technological Fundamentals of Inorganic Building Binders, namely the chemistry and technology of plaster, lime and cement manufacture.
The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring knowledge on theoretical and technological backgrounds for the production of inorganic construction binding material, namely chemistry and technology of plastering, lime burning and cement industry.

Physics, Building Chemistry, Building materials, Geology.

Mining and Preparation of Raw Materials, Binding Materials - laboratories

Information is presented to students in the form of lectures.

Credit – attendance at seminars, completion submissions of all seminar reports in required length, form, quality and time, test (pass mark at least 60 %).
The final exam consists of a written and oral part.

1.Quick setting gypsum, raw materials, and theoretical principles of production.
2.Manufacture of quick setting gypsum, properties and hydration of gypsum.
3.Gypsum binders, anhydrite binders, slow setting gypsum.
4.Quick lime, raw materials, theoretical principles of production.
5.Kilns for lime burning, technological production systems.
6.Properties of quick limes and their utilization in the building industry, in other branches of industry and ecology.
7.Hydraulic lime, raw materials, production, burning process and hydration, hydraulic lime utilization in the building industry.
8.Cements, raw materials, calculation of raw mix, methods of manufacture.
9.Raw mix preparation, fuels, and the process of Portland clinker burning. Utilization of secondary fuels.
10.Shaft kilns, rotary kilns, sintering grates for cement clinker burning.
11.Crushing and grinding of clinker, utilization of flue dust.
12.Clinker mineralogy and Portland cement hydration.
13.Special sorts of cements.Sorrel´s binder, raw materials, preparation, properties, utilization in building industry.

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Theoretical and Technological Fundamentals of Inorganic Building Binders, namely the chemistry and technology of plaster, lime and cement manufacture.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

conference Binders, cooperation on projects of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

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Hlaváč, J.: Základy technologie silikátů. SNTL Praha, 1981. (CS)

Bárta, R.: Chemie a technologie cementu. ČSAV Praha, 1961. (CS)
BOGUE, R.H.: The chemistry of portland cement. N. Y. USA, 1955. (EN)
Duda, W. H.: Cement Data-Book. Bauverlag GmbH, 1976. (EN)
H. Kühl: Zement – chemie. Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1952. (DE)
W.N. JUNG, J. M. BUTT: Technologia. V. V. Moscow, 1952.