Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MTE 504 — Fuels Refractories and Furnaces

2 units · MTE department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

appreciate the centrality of the core course to the different specialties of metallurgical engineering
identify and select suitable refractories for the building of specific furnaces
design and build functional furnaces (blast furnace, reverberation furnace, electric furnace, open heath furnace converter and fluidized bed reactors);
carry out tests on coals to ascertain the cokeability and cakeability of such coal as metallurgical fuel and thus make the right choice of fuels for the blast furnace.

Course contents

Survey of main engineering fuel: solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; classification and testing of fuels; fuels and energy utilisation in the metallurgical industry with reference to coking coals for iron and steel production via blast furnace; introduction to coal and coke technology refractories; technology of production and services of main metallurgical refractories: silicon, magnesite, chrome-magnesite, alumina-silicate and other refractories; special refractories, their evaluation and applications in furnace construction; classification of metallurgical furnaces and reactors, their design and construction.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MTE 504.

MTE 504 — Fuels Refractories and Furnaces

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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