What is the function of refractory material?
Refractory is a basic material in the field of high temperature technology. Generally, the refractory is used as structural material or lining to resist high temperature in various thermal equipment and high temperature container. In the iron and steel industry and metallurgy industry, coke ovens are mainly composed of refractory materials. Various refractories that meet the requirements are essential in blast furnace for ironmaking, hot stove, all kinds of steel-making furnaces, soaking furnace and heating furnace. Not only the die casting for molten steel needs lots of refractory materials, but also the continuous casting needs some high-quality refractory materials. Without high-quality refractory materials, external refining is also not impossible to achieve. Statistics show that the steel industry is the sector that needs the most refractory. Pyrometallurgy and thermal processing of ferrous metal also needs refractories. All high-temperature furnaces or lining in construction materials industry or other high temperature industries that produce silicate products such as glass industry, cement industry, and ceramics industry must be constructed with refractory materials. All kinds of roasting funaces, sintering funaces, heating furnaces, boilers, flues, chimneys and protective layers in chemical, power and machinery manufacturing industry need refractories. In short, when some kind of structures, devices, equipments or vessels are used under high temperature, they all should utilize refractory to resist the high temperature because those materials will deform, soften and fuse or will be eroded, scoured or broken due to the physical, chemical, mechanical effects, which may stop the operation, affect the production, contaminate processed objects and impact the quality of products.
