Refractories for the Chemical Industries
The book provides process engineers, an insight into refractories focusing on its importance and requirements in chemical process industries such as refinery and petrochemicals, syngas manufacturing, coal gasification, limestone ca
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Refractories for the Chemical Industries
Refractories for the Chemical Industries
Prasunjit Sengupta
Refractories for the Chemical Industries
Prasunjit Sengupta Technical Director SKG Refractories, Ltd. Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
ISBN 978-3-030-61239-9 ISBN 978-3-030-61240-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61240-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Dedicated to my teachers who always inspired, guided, and blessed me
Preface
I cherished the desire to write a book on this subject for long because no such book is really available in English. The COVID-19 pandemic made it easier for me because of the nationwide lockdown when we had to confine ourselves at home and ample time was available to write this book. It is needless to explain the importance of chemical industries in the modern world. Can we think of a world without petrochemicals, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, different organic chemicals, cement, glass, detergent, and hundreds of other chemicals? Almost all the industries mentioned involve high-temperature operation at some stage or another. In fact, metallurgical process, for example, smelting of iron in a blast furnace, is a chemical process and basically the blast furnace is nothing but a high-temperature reactor where iron oxide is reduced to metallic iron in the presence of carbon. Most of the metallurgical processes are, in reality, high- temperature chemical processes. Those processes are not considered here because they come under the domain of metallurgists. For controlling the high temperature, refractories are an absolute nece