Fuel, Furnaces and Refractories
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The official GTU curriculum for Fuel, Furnaces and Refractories (subject code DI03021051) as prescribed for Rubber · Semester 3 divides the course into 4 units, covering 30 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (DI03021051)Unit 1 Introduction to Fuel
- Introduction and classification of fuels. 1.2
- Definition of flash point
- fire point, and combustion of fuels. 1.3
- Importance and comparison of solid
- liquid and gaseous fuel 1.4
- Fossil fuel industries in India
Unit 2 Solid and Gaseous Fuels
- composition and types of coal. 2.1.2
- Testing of coal- Calorific value by Bomb calorimeter
- Proximate and Ultimate analysis of coal 2.2 Coke 2.2.1
- The scope and objectives of carbonization of coal 2.2.2
- Carbonization of coal 2.2.3
- Low Temperature carbonization (LTC) and High Temperature carbonization (HTC) 2.3 Distillation process of crude petroleum 2.4 Production
- composition and uses of water gas and producer gas. 2.5 Composition and use of blast furnace gas and Coke oven gas
Unit 3 Metallurgical furnaces
- Define furnace 3.2
- Classify furnaces based on application
- processes and fuels. 3.3
- working and application of below mentioned furnaces
- Production furnaces- Blast furnace
- Electric Arc furnace. b
- Melting furnaces – Cupola furnace
- Crucible furnace
- Induction furnace
- Electric furnaces. c
- Heat treatment furnaces -Muffle furnace
- Salt bath furnace 3.4 Atmospheric control in various furnaces
Unit 4 4.1 Definition and classification of refractory
- 4.2 Properties of refractory material. 4.3 General method of manufacturing refractory 4.4 Properties and applications of silica
- fire clay
- chrome magnesite, and graphite bricks. 4.5 Test of refractories like visual inspection
- Pyrometric cone equivalent (PCE) test
- RUL test Spaling test
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