Guniting the lining of steel-casting ladles

Conclusions In a joint investigation by the Serp i Molot Metallurgical Plant in Moscow and the All-Union Institute of Refractories the advantages were demonstrated of guniting the lining of steel-casting ladles. The first industrial-scale trials showed that guniting results in a significant increase in the durability of the lining and in a decrease in the consumption of ladle brick. In order to extend the practice of guniting steel-casting ladles it will be necessary to organize the production of gunite at specializing establishments of the refractories industry.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 8, pp. 37–39, August, 1975.     

Guniting the lining of 300-ton steelcasting ladles

Conclusions The practice of guniting the lining of steelcasting ladles has been introduced for the 300-ton ladles of the open-hearth division of the Cherepovetsk Metallurgical Plant. The guniting parameters are as follows: the temperature of the lining of the ladle wall should be 60–120°C; the amount of wetting agent (sodium silicate solution) for the optimal adhesion of the G unite layer to the brick masonry should give the G unite mix a moisture content of 8–15%, and the density of the aqueous sodium silicate solution should be 1.15–1.30 g/cm³.The guniting operation is carried out with a remote-controlled centrifugal-action machine which permits the operation to be carried out at a temperature in the ladle of 200°C. The durability of the ladle lining increases significantly when the lining is gunited regularly up to five times per campaign. The estimated economic benefit from the practice of guniting the 300-ton steelcasting ladles is 85,000 rubles/yr.Deceased.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 2, pp. 29–32, February, 1978.     

Guniting of the monolithic lining of steel-teeming ladles

Conclusions The authors have developed the principles of guniting the monolithic lining of steel-teeming ladles with semidry masses. Determination of the wetting of a vitrified siliceous monolithic lining with aqueous solutions of additives and suspensions of these solutions, plasticizing additives, and refractory filler has shown that a coating can be deposited onto the surface of a monolithic lining. Formation of a ceramic bond between the coating and the vitrified surface of a monolithic lining takes place at high temperatures (900°C or above). Masses of siliceous, aluminosilicate, and periclase-chromite compositions have been developed for guniting the monolithic lining of steel-teeming ladles.A procedure for guniting the monolithic lining of 180- and 350-ton steel-teeming ladles has been developed and tested. The best results have been obtained with use of gunite masses of periclase-chromite composition.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 6, pp. 25–30, June, 1981.     

Refractory products of the BKO company for lining hot-metal charging ladles and hot-metal-car ladles

This article describes the range of carbon-bearing products made by the Borovichi Refractories Combine to line hot-metal charging ladles and hot-metal-car ladles. The specifications of the products are presented along with results from their use in ladle linings.     

Durability of the lining of mixer-type transfer ladles

Conclusions A method has been developed and tested for increasing the durability of the lining of 420-ton mixer type transfer ladles for cast iron by the impregnation of the active layer with tar. At a tar temperature of 100°C the active layer is fully impregnated in 65 h. The result is a decrease in the porosity and increase in the coldcrushing strength of the chamotte brick. For a good-quality impregnation use must be made of a steam coil which will heat the tar evenly throughout the ladle volume to 100–120°C.The impregnation increased the durability of the ladle lining from 316 to 400 transfers.Translated from Ogneupory, Vol. 18, No. 8, pp. 29–31, August, 1977.     

Standardization of the chamotte lining bricks for standard round-bottom molten cast iron transfer ladles

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Guniting of the nozzles of a circulation vacuum degasser

Conclusions Ecologically clean guniting compounds which are of at least as good quality as foreign ones have been developed for guniting of the inner (base) and outer (corundum) linings of a circumation vacuum degasser leg and Technical Specifications and Technical Instructions have been approved for production and use of them. The optimum method of application of protective coatings with use of which production guniting of the Belorussian Metallurgical Plant vacuum degasser legs has been introduced, has been developed.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 8, pp. 33–35, August, 1991.     

Guniting the roof of open-hearth furnaces during intermediate overhaul

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Guniting mixture from quartzites of Ovruchskoe deposit

The properties of a guniting mixture obtained from quartzite of the Ovruchskoe deposit are studied. The optimum content of refractory clay in the guniting mixture is established and the composition for a complex binder is recommended. Production has been organized at the Ovruchskoe ore-dressing plant.     

Guniting the lining of heating furnaces of rolling mills

Conclusions Guniting mass compositions and a procedure for guniting worn brickwork of continuous heating furnaces of rolling mills have been developed. At a number of metallurgical factories the worn brickwork of eight continuous heating furnaces of rolling mills have been repaired by guniting. The use of guniting enables the period between furnace lining repairs to be doubled (from 1 to 2 years), the volume of brickwork repair and the length of the repair work to be reduced, and a saving of 5000 rubles per annum per furnace to be obtained (merely by reducing the amount of repair work).Using IR spectroscopy the authors have investigated hydration and dehydration in alumina and high-alumina cements and aluminosilicate guniting masses with additives of these cements. They have shown that during guniting by the semidry method, hydration of the cements included in the composition of the gunite coatings does not go to completion and ends in the stage of formation of CaO·Al₂O₃·10H₂O; dehydration of the gunite coatings is completed below 300°C.Translated from Ogneupory, No. 5, pp. 30–35, May, 1980.