Overview
- Discusses operational conditions prevailing in different reactors, furnaces, and kilns and any other equipment subjected to high temperature exposure;
- Illustrates the decision making process on selection of refractories as protection lining;
- Presents in detail the different types of thermal insulation materials important for all process chemical industries;
- Elucidates particulars of the installation procedure of refractories and insulation materials focussing their bearing on the performance of the refractories;
- Analyzes the factors responsible for refractory performances and the various investigation procedures in case of refractory failure;
- Features case studies on the monitoring and failure of refractories in reactors or furnaces or in other equipment in various chemical process industries.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book provides process engineers, an insight into refractories focusing on its importance and requirements in chemical process industries such as refinery and petrochemicals, syngas manufacturing, coal gasification, limestone calcinations, carbon black, glass, and cement production. Additionally the book discusses the refractory requirements for the CFBC boiler, and waste heat utilization process to generate steam. The book describes characterization of refractory material and selection process of the refractory for lining different equipments pertaining to the chemical process industry. The book covers refractory installation techniques, and the precautions to be taken during installation are discussed in detail along with the theoretical background. It explains the physical and chemical factors that influence the performances of refractory, mechanism of its degradation in service and emphasizes on the thermo-chemical and thermo-mechanical aspects and their role in that process . The content lays out different methods of monitoring Refractory lining conditions while the furnace is in operation and also elucidates few methods to repair the worn out lining without taking a shutdown. The scheme of investigation of a refractory failure is an added feature.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prasunjit Sengupta is currently associated with SKG Refractories in Nagpur, India, as Technical Director. He has more than 40 years of experience in the Refractory industry and has worked in various reputed refractory manufacturing companies in India and abroad. He has hands-on experience and expertise covering different areas of characterization, production, product development, design and application of Refractories. He was trained in different plants of Harbison-Walker in the USA and Germany. He has travelled widely across the globe in connection to Refractory related business and to attend various technical seminars and symposiums on Refractory.
The author has a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and master degree in Ceramic Engineering from the Applied Chemistry department, Calcutta University. He also spent time as a faculty member of Ceramic Engineering department in Indian Institute of Technology-BHU, Varanasi. He has got more than thirty technical papers in his credit and has authored a book titled “Refractories for the Cement Industry” published in 2019 by Springer-nature.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Refractories for the Chemical Industries
Authors: Prasunjit Sengupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61240-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61239-9Published: 29 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61242-9Published: 30 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61240-5Published: 28 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 377
Number of Illustrations: 123 b/w illustrations, 145 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Structural Materials, Materials Science, general, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials