Course detail
Machinery of Foundry Plants
FSI-PZSAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course makes students familiar with the basic technological equipment and machines used in foundries. A rational production of castings that would be environment friendly and would save power via automation and management of sources represents a closed circulation of materials with minimum waste material.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
automation and deployment. All this knowledge will be extended to cover the basic
handling of materials.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Exam tests students´ knowledge of basic production nodes in a foundry plant.
Course curriculum
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
CAMPBELL, J., Castings, University of Birmingham, 2005, 337 p. ISBN 0-7506-4790-6. (EN)
FRUEHAN, R. et al., The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel, Pittsburgh 1998, p. 767, ISBN 0-930767-02-0. (EN)
Chrást,J. : Slévárenská zařízení , Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno, 2006 (CS)
SCHLEG, P. F., et. al. Technology of Metalcasting, AFS, Illinois, 2003, 351 p. ISBN 0-87433-257-5. (EN)
Recommended reading
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Construction of foundries. Requirements for the structure of the foundry, construction areas, required energy and transport routes.
3. Premises for preparation of raw materials and equipment for batch preparation.
4. Smelter equipment. Cupola furnaces. Basic components and equipment.
5. Smelter equipment. Electric arc furnaces, induction electric furnaces. Basic components and equipment of secondary metallurgy.
6. Smelter equipment. Non-ferrous metal smelters. Ladle metallurgy equipment.
7. Foundry equipment for casting.
8. Molding mixtures of new and reversible molding mixtures, regeneration.
9. Equipment for the production of cores.
10. Equipment of molding plants, machines for molding bentonite mixture in frames, automatic molding lines.
11. Equipment for ST technology, for the production of shell molds, V-process, to a burnable model, magnetic mold, frozen mold.
12. Casting into metal molds, gravity casting, centrifugal casting, pressure casting, low pressure casting.
13. Equipment for releasing castings and cleaning the surface of castings. Equipment for separating inlets and riser. Equipment for finishing of castings.
14. Automation in foundries.
Computer-assisted exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
3. Operational files for the preparation of raw materials.
4. Operating file of Fe alloy smelter, cupola furnace, arrangement, material flow.
5. Operating file of Fe alloy smelter, electric arc furnaces and induction furnaces, arrangement, material flow.
6. Operating file of smelter not Fe alloys, arrangement, material flow.
7. Operating file of molding compound treatment plant, regeneration.
8. Operational file of core production.
9. Operating file of the molding plant.
10. Special methods of castings production.
11. Operational file of gravity casting, centrifugal casting and pressure casting.
12. Operating file of equipment for releasing castings and cleaning the surface of castings.
13. Operating file of the foundry's robotic workplace.
Elearning