Abstract — Ceramic shell investment casting process is used to produce high quality metal products with relatively close dimensional tolerances. The refractory primary slurry that is applied to the surface of the pattern assembly, to pick up its surface details plays a very important role in ceramic shell investment casting process (CSICP). It produces a smooth, acceptable surface finish of the...

The main objective of this research is to investigate the effect of dewaxing and burnout temperature on the quality of copper alloy casting produced by a low cost block mold that has been developed. In the molding process, two types of silica sand which contains 97.9% silica (SiO2) and 97.2% silica have been used as a refractory material with POP served as a binder. Several mold formulations co...

In the Refractories world three decades ago, very few people were acquainted to silica fume and its usage. After a few years, it was used as an additive to brick. When added to high Alumina brick, mullite was formed in the matrix of the brick on firing, giving the brick good volume stability, strength and chemical resistance. When used in basic brick, high hot strengths resulted, at least at 27...

Reclamation of used moulding and core sands is defined as a treatment of waste refractory materials allowing to recover at least one component of properties similar to the properties of the new component and to reuse it for casting moulds and core production. In traditional technologies of casting moulds and core production on the basis of high-silica sands with binding agent addition, the recl...

Synthetic vitreous fibers are inorganic fibrous materials, manufactured principally from glass, rock, minerals, slag, and processed inorganic oxides. Synthetic vitreous fibers are manufactured by several processes, all of which involve cooling of a stream of high-temperature, molten inorganic oxides. Commercially important synthetic vitreous fibers are primarily silica-based, but contain variou...

In this study, degradation by so-called “Obake” , an advanced stage of external corundum growth on alumina-silica refractory surfaces, was investigated. The Obake successfully recreated melting Al-5%Mg in the crucible under thermal cycle conditions. test temperatures were chosen at 1000°C or 1150°C. It confirmed that internal occurred formation spinel (MgAl2O4) where touch with molten Al-5Mg an...