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
Institute
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
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.