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  • Question
  • Walls, roofs & combustion chambers of annealing furnaces are made of __________ bricks.


  • Options
  • A. high duty fireclay
  • B. silica
  • C. mullite
  • D. carborundum

  • Correct Answer
  • high duty fireclay 


  • Refractory Technology problems


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    • 1. Skull is not formed on the carbon blocks in the hearth of a blast furnace, when it becomes cold, becaus of its

    • Options
    • A. non-wetting characteristic.
    • B. high thermal conductivity.
    • C. high crushing strength.
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Cermets are combination of ceramic and metallic materials due to which they have high strength & resistance to high temperature. Cermets are used in the

    • Options
    • A. hearth of the blast furnace.
    • B. nuclear reactors, missiles & space crafts.
    • C. insulation of high temperature furnaces.
    • D. roof of electric furnaces.
    • Discuss
    • 3. Magnesite refractories are used for the construction of those furnaces, which are

    • Options
    • A. not required to resist the corrosive action of basic slag.
    • B. not subjected to fluctuation in temperature.
    • C. used for raising & maintaining high temperature.
    • D. both (b) and (c)
    • Discuss
    • 4. Refractories are dried in the

    • Options
    • A. rotary kilns
    • B. tunnel kilns
    • C. sun
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 5. Outer combustion chamber of blast furnace stove is lined with __________ bricks.

    • Options
    • A. fireclay
    • B. silica
    • C. chrome magnesite
    • D. zirconia
    • Discuss
    • 6. Water content in ground refractory material to be shaped into bricks by hand moulding is about __________ percent.

    • Options
    • A. 5
    • B. 20
    • C. 40
    • D. 55
    • Discuss
    • 7. A steel member used in the furnace construction to take the thrust of the brickwork is called

    • Options
    • A. buckstay
    • B. breast wall
    • C. armouring
    • D. baffle
    • Discuss
    • 8. Grog

    • Options
    • A. contains both alumina and silica.
    • B. iscrushed firebrick.
    • C. is a non-plastic material.
    • D. all (a), (b) and (c).
    • Discuss
    • 9. With increase in the alumina content, the refractoriness of high alumina refractories

    • Options
    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
    • C. remains same
    • D. may increase or decrease
    • Discuss
    • 10. Thermal diffusivity of a refractory brick is high, when its __________ is high.

    • Options
    • A. density
    • B. specific heat
    • C. thermal conductivity
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss


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