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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.

Physics, building materials, chemistry and technology of binders

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. The course consists of lectures and laboratory sessions. Information is presented to students in the form of lectures. In laboratory exercises, students work in groups and carry out the assigned tasks according to exercises plan. The output of each exercise is protocol with the evaluation of the measured values.

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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Brief fundamentals of General Physical Chemistry concerning the state of aggregates, thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, processes on boundaries between phases, sorption effects and basic phenomena of disperse systems – Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry of Silicate Structures, theory of melts and glass, theory of reactions in solid phase.

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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26 hours, compulsory

1. Laboratory order, theoretical description of the test procedures
2. Testing of Gypsum - Test methods according to ČSN 72 2301 and ČSN EN 13279
3. Testing of lime - Test methods according to ČSN EN 459
4. Determination of specific surface of cement; Determination of fineness of cement
5. Determination of volume stability of cement; Determination of the type of cement microscopically
6. Testing parameters setting and strength of cement
7. Testing the properties of blended cements
8. Monitoring the hydration process of gypsum
9. Design and calculation of raw meal for the production of clinker
10. Tests binders based on calcium sulfate (CAB, CAC)
11. Masonry cement - Test methods according to ČSN EN 413
12. Excursion
13. Credit