Fire brick

Refractories, Fire Brick-Specialties, Uses in Industrial Importance,The Refractories Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1975. 

Fig. 2. Downs cell A, the steel shell, contains the fused bath B is the fire-brick lining C, four cylindrical graphite anodes project upward from the base of the cell, each surrounded by D, a diaphragm of iron gau2e, and E, a steel cathode. The four cathode cylinders are joined to form a single unit supported on cathode arms projecting through the cell walls and connected to F, the cathode bus bar. The diaphragms are suspended from G, the collector assembly, which is supported from steel beams spanning the cell top. For descriptions of H—M, see text.

Metafile arsenic can be obtained by the direct smelting of the minerals arsenopyrite or loeUingite. The arsenic vapor is sublimed when these minerals are heated to about 650—700°C in the absence of air. The metal can also be prepared commercially by the reduction of arsenic trioxide with charcoal. The oxide and charcoal are mixed and placed into a horizontal steel retort jacketed with fire-brick which is then gas-fired. The reduced arsenic vapor is collected in a water-cooled condenser (5). In a process used by Bofiden Aktiebolag (6), the steel retort, heated to 700—800°C in an electric furnace, is equipped with a demountable air-cooled condenser. The off-gases are cleaned in a sembber system. The yield of metallic arsenic from the reduction of arsenic trioxide with carbon and carbon monoxide has been studied (7) and a process has been patented describing the gaseous reduction of arsenic trioxide to metal (8). 

Bricks are the oldest manufactured building material in use. Sun-dried bricks were manufactured as eady as 6000 BC, and fired bricks were used during the Middle Ages. Today s bricks differ very Htde except in the efficiency of manufacture they ate stiU made from clay or shale, a clay-based sedimentary rock that is kiln-fired. 

There are a number or types of special brick obtainable from individual producers. High-burned kaolin refractories are particularly valuable under conditions of severe temperature and heavy load or severe spalling conditions, as in the case of high-temperature oil-fired boiler settings or piers under enamehng furnaces. Another brick for the same uses is a high-fired brick of Missouri aluminous clay. 

Ofen-trocknung, /. kiln (or oven or stove) drying. -tlir, -tiire, /. door (esp., the fire door) of a furnace, oven, kiln or stove (Ceram.) wicket, -verkokung, /. coking in ovens, -ziegcl, m. fire brick stove tile, -zug, m. furnace (or oven or kiln) draft, offen, a. open (of sound) hollow clear, clever, frank. — offener Dampf, direct steam, live steam. 

Glass-working shops that are called upon to make large or intricate apparatus should be equipped with an annealing oven. With some ingenuity a home-made one can be built using Nichrome wire and fire-brick. 

Ordinary fire bricks, fire bricks with a high porosity, and special bricks composed of diatomaceous earths are used for insulating walls. 

Common ancient ceramic materials often found in archaeological excavations, such as fired brick and pottery, were made mostly from a mixture of a secondary clay and fillers. The nature, composition, and properties of clay have been already discussed the nature of the fillers, the changes undergone by the clay as well as by the fillers during their conversion to ceramics, and the unique properties of ceramic materials, are reviewed in the following pages. Attention is drawn also to studies that provide information on the composition and characteristics of ancient ceramic materials. 

A fireplace should be lined with special fire bricks to prevent heat transfer. 

The burners at the reformer s top are in an enclosure called a penthouse. The flue gas is collected at the bottom in horizontal fire-brick ducts called tunnels. Flue gas exits horizontally into a waste heat recovery (WHR) unit. Combustion gas is drawn through the WHR unit by an induced-draft fan and then discharged to the atmosphere through a stack. 

The flue gas tunnels are rectangular fire-brick structures at the reformer s bottom. They act as horizontal ducts for flue gas removal. The flue gas exits at 1,800°F to 1,900°F. A heat recovery unit is provided to recover heat from this gas. This unit contains a reformer feed preheat coil, steam superheat coil, steam generation coil and boiler feed water preheat coil. 

The course of the reaction can conveniently be followed by gas chromatography. A sample of the reaction mixture is withdrawn at intervals, neutralized with solid sodium bicarbonate, dried over magnesium sulfate, and injected directly into a gas chromatography column consisting of 15% phenyldiethanola-mine succinate (PDEAS) substrate coated on 60/80 mesh, acid-washed fire brick contained in a i in. by 5 ft. spiral-shaped copper... 

Sources. From manufacture of refractory crucibles, fire bricks, magnesia cements, boiler scale compounds... 

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