Students will be able to:

Describe the various partial melting processes on the basis of the results of experiments for the models and practical knowledge and to define the most important process parameters.

Suggest a condition for the realization of the melting process based on processes knowledge.

Use glass melting process knowledge to solve problems of glass production and preparation of laboratory glass.

Prepare the glass of given composition in laboratory conditions.

Z: Hlaváč J.: The Technology of Glass and Ceramics, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1983. ISBN: 0-444-41577-7

D: Varshneya A.K.: Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, Academic Press, London 1994. ISBN:978-0127149707

D: Paul A.: Chemistry of glasses, Chapman and Hall, London 1982. ISBN:0-4412-27820-0

D: Trier W.: Glass furnaces - Design Construction and operation, SGT, Sheffield 1987. ISBN:0900682205

D: Bartuška M.(Ed.): Glass Defects, Práh, Prague 2001. ISBN:978-80-7252-217-0

Lecture slides

Introduction into atomic and molecular physics

Hydrogen atom, many-electron atoms, solid state

Spectrum, classification of spectroscopies, cross sections

Vacuum and ultravaccum, detectors, beam sources

SIMS, RBS, PIXE, NMR

EPMA, XRF - methods for elemental characterization

Surface spectroscopies. Surface structure. Surface relaxation.

LEED, AES, XPS - methods for surface characterization

Diffraction methods.

Light microscopy.

Scanning electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy

Probe microscopies

Vibrational spectroscopies

Thermal analyses

1. Glass raw materials and their treatment, chemical reactions in glass batch

2. Particle dissolution in the glass melt

3. Bubble removal from glass melts, gas solubilities and bubble nucleation in glass melts

4. Oxidation-reduction equilibria in glass melts

5. Dissolution of chemical inhohogeneities (cords)

6. Character of glass flow in glass melting furnaces

7. Energy consumption and melting performance of the melting space

8. The evaporation of volatile glass components during melting

9. Corrosion of refractory materials and heating electrodes by glass melts

10. Glass forming processes

11. Glass annealing

12. Coloured glasses

13. Special glasses

14. Coatings on glass