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Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)

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Students who are registered on the this course should have a basic knowledge of the theoretical foundations of the structure of silicates. Otherwise not required any special knowledge.

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1. Definition of glass, glass raw material characteristics, the glass batch calculation, calculation of the properties of the chemical composition of the glass.
2. The processes of melting glass - heat strain responses between the main raw materials, high-temperature phase and chemical equilibrium, types of enamel structure in melting strains.
3. Ripples of glass. Oxidation-reduction processes in glass melting, evaporation of volatile substances homogenization.
4. Glass furnaces - materials for their construction requirements, types of furnaces, fuel, heat transfer.
5. Fuel tank furnaces - types, construction, cooling, heating, construction furnace smelting technology in bath furnace.
6. Electric folding melting theoretical foundations, construction of electric van, electrode corrosion.
7. Melting in ladle furnaces - types and use pot furnaces, ceramic basin, glass melting technology in the pans.
8. Special sealers - Crucible medium-and high-frequency furnace melting quartz glass.
9. Physico-chemical methods of testing glass - glass mechanical modules, testing of single-layer safety glass, optical properties of glass, measuring thermal properties of glass.
10. Physico-chemical methods of testing glass - surface tension of the glass, setting the cooling process of glass, demarcations and speed devitrification, analysis of internal stresses in the glass.
11. Physico-chemical methods of testing glass - Determination of chemical resistance of the glass, the determination of the viscosity of molten glass (practical laboratory demonstrations). Analysis of the properties of glass materials.
12. Foam glass - technology, properties and testing. Glass ceramics.
13. Excursion to the glassworks.

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

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