Technology of Glass - N107016
Title: Technologie skla
Guaranteed by: Department of Glass and Ceramics (107)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2019 to 2020
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:7
E-Credits: winter s.:7
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:4/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type:  
Additional information: http://prof. Ing. L. Němec, DrSc.
Guarantor: Němec Lubomír prof. Ing. DrSc.
Rada Miroslav Ing. CSc.
Kloužek Jaroslav doc. Ing. CSc.
Is interchangeable with: M107011
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course contains chemical engineering and physico-chemical fundamentals of glass melting process involving chronologically phenomena of the industrial processes and methods of preparation of special glass and coatings on glass.
Last update: Kloužek Jaroslav (19.08.2013)
Aim of the course -

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.

Last update: VED107 (23.08.2013)
Literature -

R: Hlaváč J.: Základy technologie silikátů, SNTL, Praha 1988.

A: Paul A.: Chemistry of glasses, Chapman and Hall, 1982.

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

A: Bartuška M.(Ed.): Vady skla, Práh, Praha 2001. ISBN: 80-7252-043-1D

A: Smrček A. (Ed.): Tavení skla, ČSS, Teplice 2008. ISBN: 978-80-904044-0-3

Last update: Kloužek Jaroslav (19.08.2013)
Learning resources -

Education materials in electronic form at lecturers

Last update: VED107 (28.08.2013)
Syllabus -

1. Methods of glass preparation

2. Raw materials, homogenization and preparation of glass batch

3. Glass batch reactions

4. Processes of particle dissolution in glass melts

5. Gas solubility in glass melts

6. Mechanisms of bubble removal from glass melts

7. Oxidation-reduction state of glasses

8. Dissolution of liquid inhomogeneities in glass melts

9. Impact of glass flow character on the glass melting proces

10. Evaporation of volatile components of glass melts

11. Corrosion of refractory materials by glass melts

12. Glasses coloured by iron and sulphur compounds

13. Special glasses

14. Coatings on glass

Last update: Kloužek Jaroslav (19.08.2013)
Registration requirements -

Inorganic Non-metallic Materials, Fundamentals of Glass and Ceramics Technology

Last update: VED107 (23.08.2013)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0.5 14
Účast na přednáškách 2 56
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 2 56
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 2 56
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
7 / 7 196 / 196
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests 20
Oral examination 80