What is the use of refractory?
Some is insulated for personnel safety, some is to save heat loss and conserve energy, and some is used as lining of kilns. Because of its light weight, I recommand it to you and I am engeged in ceramic fiber, just an advertisement.
It is fire-retardant and insulated.
Refractories mainly provide stable working environment for high temperature operation , such as metallurgical industry (steel ladle, hot-metal bottle, torpedo car and most places directly in contact with molten steel and iron), chemical industry (coke oven cokeing, dry quenching engineering) and building materials industry (lime kiln and glass kiln)
It is used as a protective layer inside the high-temperature, high-corrosion, high-washing, easy to be wore equipment and as an insulation layer outside equipment.
It is equivalent to a protective layer. It can be used to protect structural materials from being direcctly attecked by high tempereture or internal gases. General structural materials are steel, so the main function is resistant to fire and high temperature. In literal meaning, refractory is a fireproof material. Steel is easily deformed and wore. Structural materials can not directly touched with solid and liquid. Refractory materials are generally used as a protective lining of structural material, so it is necessary to be protected.
