Machinery of Foundry Plants (FSI-PZS)

Academic year 2023/2024
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Libor Čamek, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: ÚST all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Aims of the course unit:
The objective is to familiarise students with the basic machinery equipment of foundries and its future development ensuring an optimum use of the machines. They willhave a grasp of the market and capital investment activities.
Learning outcomes and competences:
Students will be cognizant of the basic manufacturing systems in foundries, the machines used, the functions and parameters of individual pieces of equipment,their
automation and deployment. All this knowledge will be extended to cover the basic
handling of materials.
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of foundry technologies and metallurgy.
Course contents:
The course makes students familiar with the basic technological equipment and machines used in foundries. A rational production of castings that would be environment friendly and would save power via automation and management of sources represents a closed circulation of materials with minimum waste material.
Teaching methods and criteria:
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
Course-unit credit conditional on participation in seminars and proving appropriate knowledge.
Exam tests students´ knowledge of basic production nodes in a foundry plant.
Controlled participation in lessons:
Technical reports from excursions realised in course of semestr are requisted.
Type of course unit:
    Lecture  13 × 4 hrs. optionally                  
    Computer-assisted exercise  13 × 1 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Lecture 1. Importance of foundry technology. Distribution of foundry operations. Work and environmental problems.
2. Construction of foundries. Requirements for the structure of the foundry, construction areas, required energy and transport routes.
3. Premises for preparation of raw materials and equipment for batch preparation.
4. Smelter equipment. Cupola furnaces. Basic components and equipment.
5. Smelter equipment. Electric arc furnaces, induction electric furnaces. Basic components and equipment of secondary metallurgy.
6. Smelter equipment. Non-ferrous metal smelters. Ladle metallurgy equipment.
7. Foundry equipment for casting.
8. Molding mixtures of new and reversible molding mixtures, regeneration.
9. Equipment for the production of cores.
10. Equipment of molding plants, machines for molding bentonite mixture in frames, automatic molding lines.
11. Equipment for ST technology, for the production of shell molds, V-process, to a burnable model, magnetic mold, frozen mold.
12. Casting into metal molds, gravity casting, centrifugal casting, pressure casting, low pressure casting.
13. Equipment for releasing castings and cleaning the surface of castings. Equipment for separating inlets and riser. Equipment for finishing of castings.
14. Automation in foundries.
    Computer-assisted exercise 1-2. Meaning and construction of foundries.
3. Operational files for the preparation of raw materials.
4. Operating file of Fe alloy smelter, cupola furnace, arrangement, material flow.
5. Operating file of Fe alloy smelter, electric arc furnaces and induction furnaces, arrangement, material flow.
6. Operating file of smelter not Fe alloys, arrangement, material flow.
7. Operating file of molding compound treatment plant, regeneration.
8. Operational file of core production.
9. Operating file of the molding plant.
10. Special methods of castings production.
11. Operational file of gravity casting, centrifugal casting and pressure casting.
12. Operating file of equipment for releasing castings and cleaning the surface of castings.
13. Operating file of the foundry's robotic workplace.
Literature - fundamental:
1. Chrást,J. : Slévárenská zařízení , Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno, 2006
2. SCHLEG, P. F., et. al. Technology of Metalcasting, AFS, Illinois, 2003, 351 p. ISBN 0-87433-257-5.
3. FRUEHAN, R. et al., The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel, Pittsburgh 1998, p. 767, ISBN 0-930767-02-0.
4. CAMPBELL, J., Castings, University of Birmingham, 2005, 337 p. ISBN 0-7506-4790-6.
5. BEELEY, B., Foundry Technology, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001, 719 p. ISBN 9780750645676.
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
N-SLE-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- Cr,Ex 7 Compulsory 2 2 W