Course detail

Binders

FAST-BJ51Acad. year: 2013/2014

Quick setting gypsum, raw materials, theoretical principles of production. The quick-setting gypsum production, anhydrite binders, slow-setting gypsum, Sorel’s magnesium cement, raw materials, preparation, properties. Quick lime, raw materials, theoretical principles of production. Kilns for burning of lime, technologic production systems. Properties of quick lime, utilization in building industry. Hydraulic lime, raw materials, technology of production, properties and utilization. Cements, raw materials, calculation of raw mix, fuels, process of clinker burning. Kilns for clinker burning. Heat balances of individual kiln systems. Crushing and grinding of clinker, utilization of waste dust, main properties of Portland cement.
Mineralogy of clinker, Portland cement hydration. Special cements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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.

Prerequisites

Physics, Building Chemistry, Building materials, Geology.

Co-requisites

Mining and Preparation of Raw Materials, Binding Materials - laboratories

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Information is presented to students in the form of lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

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.

Course curriculum

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.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

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

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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

Recommended reading

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

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's

    branch VS , 2. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch VS , 2. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

    branch VS , 2. year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch VS , 2. year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

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.

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Conditions of credit awarding prerequisites, laboratory order, tour of the laboratory
2. Monitoring the hydration process of gypsum
3. Short durability test - material degradation due to temperature - Part I.
4. Short durability test - material degradation due to temperature - Part II.
5. Monitoring the hydration process of CSH systems during hydrothermal processing of materials
6. Calculation of the raw meal for firing cement, Part I.
7. Calculation of the raw meal for firing cement, Part II.
8. Tests on anhydrite binders
9. Tests on masonry cement
10. Processing lesson
11. Excursion
12. Credit