15CR33T: Ceramic Process Calculations Ceramics 3rd Sem Syllabus for Diploma DTE Karnataka C15 Scheme

Ceramic Process Calculations detail DTE Kar Diploma syllabus for Ceramics Engineering (CR), C15 scheme is extracted from DTE Karnataka official website and presented for diploma students. The course code (15CR33T), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below. The syllabus PDFs can be downloaded from official website.

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Pre-requisites:

Basics of Ceramic lab.

Course Objectives:

To solve various problems related to ceramic calculations and to design ceramic raw material batches to the industrial productions and evaluations.

Course Outcomes:

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1. Moisture Content

Define Moisture content, (mechanical, hygroscopic & chemical water) its effects on quality and price of the material, determination of moisture content, Loss on ignition & Theoretical loss on ignition. Calculatewater of plasticity. Understand the use of advanced equipments in moisture determination.

2. Dimensional Changes

Definition of shrinkage (drying & firing), linear shrinkage & volume shrinkage. Relation between moisture content and shrinkage, Factor affecting shrinkage.
Calculation of linear drying & firing shrinkage, volume drying and firing shrinkage & total shrinkage. Calculation of shrinkage water and porewater. Conversions from linear drying
shrinkage to volume drying shrinkage and vice versa. Estimate the green size and final size of the product with known shrinkage factors.

3. Porous Solids.

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4. Ceramic Suspensions

Definition of slip, Calculating density of a body batch & slip, adjusting density of batch, preparing slip of known density. Calculations relating to Mixtures of solid particles and water, use of Brongniart’s formula in fluid calculations-calculating dry content in slip, Increasing the density of slip by adding dry content & Dilution problems.

5. Glaze calculation

Definition of Molecular weights, calculation of molecular weights of ceramic raw materials and glaze/glass compositions, percentage composition and Empirical formula, calculation of glaze recipe to formula incorporating various ceramic raw materials, frits (Raw glaze & Fritted Glaze). And converting given glaze formula to the recipe.

6. Strength of Ceramic Bodies

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Resources

1. Calculation in ceramics -By R. GRIFFITHS & Radfard
2. Ceramics test & calculation -By A. I ANDREWS.
3. Hand Book of glaze MFG -By F.U. TOOLEY volume I & II Ogden Flushing
4. Lead Glazes for Ceramic Food ware – By Richard L. Lehman

(http://www.ilmc.org/Publications/ILMCFinalCombo8-02B.pdf)

e-Resourses

1. http://www.calculatoredge.com/new/avgdiameter.htm

Suggested Student Activity

1. Student should find various glaze compositions for different ceramic products and make a comparative report on their qualities.
2. Students should collect / (given formula/recipe of) three different glaze formula or percentage composition of known products and convert them to percentage glaze compositions or glaze formula and submit the report.
3. Make a report on modern instruments used in finding moisture content of material.
4. Make a report on any other methods of finding density of slurry in industry.
5. Make a report on instruments used in finding mechanical strength of ceramic products.

Note: Student should prepare hand written report with minimum 2-3 pages and reports should not be copied from earlier batches. And other similar tasks can be assigned.

Model Question Paper:

(CIE)

1. Describe the need for measuring moisture content of ceramic raw materials.
2. Ball clay sample of 500gms found to have 13% moisture in it and on firing it weighs 395gms. Calculate dry weight and % loss on ignition. OR Calculate theoretical loss on ignition of the following
1. Ball Clay
2. Calcite
3. Write the formula to convert VDS to LDS and LDS to VDS.
4. Calculate average linear drying shrinkage from the following data. Plastic Length Dry Length 8 cms 7.5 cms 8 cms 7.3 cms 8 cms 7.6 cms OR Convert the Volume Drying Shrinkage of 18.5% to Linear Drying Shrinkage.

Model Question Paper:

Part-A

Answer any 6 of the following 6×5=30 marks

1. Define moisture content. State the formula to find moisture content.
2. Calculate average linear drying shrinkage from the following data.

Plastic Length Dry Length

1. 10 cms 9.5 cms
2. 10 cms 9.2 cms
3. 10 cms 9.3 cms
3. Ball clay sample of 500gms found to have 18% moisture in it and on firing it weighs 395gms. Calculate dry weight and % loss on ignition.
4. Convert % linear drying shrinkage of 8.56 to % volume drying shrinkage.
5. Describe the terms Open pore volume, apparent solid volume and true volume.
6. An insulating refractory weighing 780gms on saturating in water weigh 810gms and on suspending in water it weighs 710gms. Calculate App. Porosity, and % Water absorption.
7. 8kgs of body samples with specific gravity 2.38 is blended with same quantity of water to form slurry. Calculate resulting density of slip.
8. Calculate theoretical loss on ignition of the following
1. Ball Clay
2. Calcite
9. List out the factors affecting strength.

Part B

Answer any 7 of the following 7×10=70

1. A typical body batch is as follows –
1. Ball clay – 15kg,
2. Thana Clay – 12kg
3. Feldspar – 20kg,
4. Quartz – 8kg,

and these materials found to have loss on ignition of 13%, 12.4%,1% and 0%.
Calculate ignited weight of the batch 10

1. A Clay sample isfound to have LDS of 8.25%. From such clay a brick is to be made of size as follows. Calculate the green size of the crucible. 7
2. Explain drying and firing shrinkage 3
1. Whiteware body sample is found to have Plastic volume of 120cc, and dry volume of 95cc. And the dry weight is 210gms. Calculate shrinkage water. 5
2. The apparent specific gravity of brick is 1.70 and true specific gravity 2.4. If the test piece hasthe dimensions of 2cmX2cmX2cm calculate quantity of water it can absorb. 5
4. Calculate all you can from the following data. 10
1. Plastic weight 72.51gms
2. Plastic suspended weight 42.12gms
3. Dry weight 58.72gms
4. Dry saturated weight 74.51gms
5. Dry suspended weight 42.51gms
6. Sp. Gravity of kerosene 0.813
1. 10 kgs of body batch with specific gravity 2.38 is blunged with 8lts of water to form slurry. Calculate resulting density of slip. 5
2. Sample clay of 50kg having true specific gravity of 2.5 contains 15% moisture. Calculate density of material. 5
1. 50 buckets of slip is made at density of 38oz/pt. Calculate how many buckets of water need to be added to reduce the density to 32oz/pt. 4
2. A body slip is made with following composition. 6
1. Ball Clay 15kg,
2. China Clay 5kg
3. Feldspar 8kg
4. Quartz 6kg
5. Water 18lts

The raw materials found to have density of 2.5, 2.5, 2.6, 2.65 & 1gm/cc respectively. Calculate resulting density of slip

1. State the brongniert’s formula. 4
2. Calculate molecular weight of given formula of stone. 6
1. 0.412 K2O
2. 0.143 Na2O Al2O3 7.1SiO2
3. 0.180 CaO
8. Calculate the molecular formula from given glaze recipe. 10
1. PbO 22.80
2. Na2O 06.96
3. K2O 11.54
4. Al2O3 09.70
5. SiO2 41.00
6. B2O3 08.00
9. The Glaze has following formula. 10
1. 0.538 PbO
2. 0.307 CaO
3. 0.133 K2O 0.349 Al2O3 3.387SiO2
4. 0.022 Na2O

Calculate a glaze recipe for this formula incorporating lead bisilicate, whiting, soda feldspar and other easily available raw materials.

10. Calculate Average MOR & Effective MOR from following data
1. 35 2.00 2.50
2. 38 2.14 2.65
3. 40 2.56 2.66
4. 52 2.48 2.25
5. 49 2.40 2.30

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