Course Details

Binders 2

Academic Year 2025/26

BJA012 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / M Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Karel Dvořák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289784

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

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 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 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.