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Syllabus ( GST 516 )


   Basic information
Course title: Raw Material Melting and Affination
Course code: GST 516
Lecturer: Instructor Dr. Mustafa ORAN
ECTS credits: 7,5
GTU credits: 3 (3+0+0)
Year, Semester: 1, Fall and Spring
Level of course: Second Cycle (Master's)
Type of course: Area Elective
Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: Face to face
Pre- and co-requisites: none
Professional practice: No
Purpose of the course: This course covers the high temperature reactions of melting kinetics including solid-liquid conversions (so-called batch to melt conversions), fining mechanisms where the molten glass is purified by removing gas inclusions and homogenizing. In this context, physical and chemical properties of raw materials making different type of glasses, melting/fining optimizations in glass furnaces producing different glass products are examined by experimental
   Learning outcomes Up

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Solid to liquid transitions at furnaces. How to control melting and affination at industrial furnaces.

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Glass Science and Technology
    2. Formulate and solve advanced engineering problems
    3. Acquire scientific knowledge
    4. Effectively express his/her research ideas and findings both orally and in writing
    5. Demonstrating professional and ethical responsibility

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
    2. Term paper
  2. How to operate glass making furnaces

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Glass Science and Technology
    2. Formulate and solve advanced engineering problems
    3. Acquire scientific knowledge
    4. Effectively express his/her research ideas and findings both orally and in writing
    5. Demonstrating professional and ethical responsibility

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
    2. Term paper
  3. What is affinatiıon, glass-gaz relations, etc

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Glass Science and Technology
    2. Formulate and solve advanced engineering problems
    3. Acquire scientific knowledge
    4. Effectively express his/her research ideas and findings both orally and in writing
    5. Demonstrating professional and ethical responsibility

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
    2. Term paper
   Contents Up
Week 1: Review of basic concepts from the courses 501 and 502.
Week 2: List of glass making raw materials, influences of their physical properties on melting and design of glass composition
Week 3: List of glass making raw materials, influences of their physical properties on melting and design of glass composition
Week 4: Introduction to Glass Melting (kinetics of batch to melt conversions, physical and chemical reactions, heat transfer)
Week 5: Introduction to Glass Melting (temperature dependent physical and chemical reactions in glass melting)
Week 6: Glass Fining (gases in molten glass, bubble dynamics, stages of fining, fining agents, redox effect, fining in oxidized and reduced conditions)
Week 7: Glass Fining (gases in molten glass, bubble dynamics, stages of fining, fining agents, redox effect, fining in oxidized and reduced conditions)
Week 8: • Glass Fining (gases in molten glass, bubble dynamics, stages of fining, fining agents, redox effect, fining in oxidized and reduced conditions)
• Homogenization (mixing and diffusion)
Week 9: Mid-Term
Week 10: Glass furnace types (pot, day tank, recuperative, cross-fired regenerative, end-port fired regenerative, oxy-fired, all-electric), furnace operations for improving melting and fining.
Week 11: Glass furnace types (pot, day tank, recuperative, cross-fired regenerative, end-port fired regenerative, oxy-fired, all-electric), furnace operations for improving melting and fining.
Week 12: Glass furnace types (pot, day tank, recuperative, cross-fired regenerative, end-port fired regenerative, oxy-fired, all-electric), furnace operations for improving melting and fining.
Week 13: Affinasyon (how to control affination in furnaces)
Week 14: Homogenization
Week 15*: Project Presentations
Week 16*: Final Exam
Textbooks and materials: Lecture notes, presentations and documents
Recommended readings: Library of Şişecam Science and Technology Center
  * Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.
Assessment Up
Method of assessment Week number Weight (%)
Mid-terms: 7 20
Other in-term studies: 0 0
Project: 15 40
Homework: 0 0
Quiz: 0 0
Final exam: 16 40
  Total weight:
(%)
   Workload Up
Activity Duration (Hours per week) Total number of weeks Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching): 4 14
Own studies outside class: 3 16
Practice, Recitation: 0 0
Homework: 0 0
Term project: 2 14
Term project presentation: 2 1
Quiz: 0 0
Own study for mid-term exam: 5 5
Mid-term: 3 1
Personal studies for final exam: 3 5
Final exam: 5 1
    Total workload:
    Total ECTS credits:
*
  * ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25.
(1 ECTS = 25 work hours)
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