This book covers details of specialized advanced refractories, their essentiality, their functions, the materials used, their properties, their degradation, and the possibilities for improvements. Elaborated details with various schematic figures and real-life photographs are included, with special focus on the iron and steel industries. It is based on different multi-national/international refractory organizations and their products correlating with fundamentals and concepts.

Features:

• Describes the design and types of refractory materials used in different industrial applications, along with their wear mechanisms.
• Focuses on specific applications during iron- and steelmaking.
• Includes numerous schematic diagrams with labelling and product photos with application areas.
• Reviews details of background, requirements from user industries, progress with time, materials used, compositions, and properties.

• Mentions failure mechanisms and pertinent improvements/modifications. This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in refractory materials, pyro-metallurgy, and iron- and steelmaking.

  Autorentext

  Ritwik Sarkar is a professor, Department of Ceramic Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, since 2009. He has completed his graduation in ceramic technology from the University of Calcutta in 1993, post-graduation from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1995, and a PhD degree from Jadavpur University in 2003, all from India. Prior to his current assignment, Dr Sarkar has worked as general manager-technology, IFGL Refractories Ltd, India, in 2008-2009 and as senior scientist in CSIR:CGCRI, India, in 2001-2008; in the Research and Consultancy Directorate, ACC Ltd, Thane, India, in 1999-2001; and in H&R Johnson (I) Ltd, Thane, in 1995. He was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Ceramic Components in Mechanical Engineering (IKKM), RWTH, Aachen, Germany, with DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship, in 2003-2004.