Course Details
Glass Technology
Academic Year 2025/26
NJA033 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIM Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Definition of glass, glass raw material characteristics, the glass batch calculation, calculation of the properties of the chemical composition of the glass.
- 2. The processes of melting glass – heat strain responses between the main raw materials, high-temperature phase and chemical equilibrium, types of enamel structure in melting strains.
- 3. Ripples of glass. Oxidation-reduction processes in glass melting, evaporation of volatile substances homogenization.
- 4. Glass furnaces – materials for their construction requirements, types of furnaces, fuel, heat transfer.
- 5. Fuel tank furnaces – types, construction, cooling, heating, construction furnace smelting technology in bath furnace.
- 6. Electric folding melting theoretical foundations, construction of electric van, electrode corrosion.
- 7. Melting in ladle furnaces – types and use pot furnaces, ceramic basin, glass melting technology in the pans.
- 8. Special sealers – Crucible medium-and high-frequency furnace melting quartz glass.
- 9. Physico-chemical methods of testing glass – glass mechanical modules, testing of single-layer safety glass, optical properties of glass, measuring thermal properties of glass.
- 10. Physico-chemical methods of testing glass – surface tension of the glass, setting the cooling process of glass, demarcations and speed devitrification, analysis of internal stresses in the glass.
- 11. Physico-chemical methods of testing glass – Determination of chemical resistance of the glass, the determination of the viscosity of molten glass (practical laboratory demonstrations). Analysis of the properties of glass materials.
- 12. Foam glass – technology, properties and testing. Glass ceramics. Water glass.
- 13. Excursion to the glassworks.