Equipment

MINERALOGY ACTIVITIES
•    Mineralogical analysis of newly developed products
•    Identification of wear mechanisms in used and end-of-life refractories with a scanning electron microscope
•    Microstructures of FM, DBM, CCM, and refractory products
•    Analysis of products received upon customer requests

CHEMISTRY LABORATORY ACTIVITIES
•    Chemical analyses of input products, intermediate, and final products
•    Post mortem, slag, clinker, etc. analyses

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
•    Porosity, cold and hot compressive strength
•    HOT-MOR, refractoriness under load and creep thermal expansion, gas permeability analyses
•    Slag attack tests
•    Clinker interaction tests

RESISTANCE POWDER LABORATORY
•    Flow rate and density tests for powder
•    Resistance production
•    High voltage test
•    Leakage current test
•    Insulation resistance
•    Life test