PFEFEFRACTORY GINNING Around 1915, pioneers in the steel industry experimented with patching deteriorated fire-brick linings to lengthen their service life. Using the Gunite machine, which had been introduced to the construction industry a few years before, they shot a mixture of crushed crucibles and fine dry fire clay into blast furnaces, Bessemer converters, and ladles. The gun proved its ability to handle dry materials, wet them with the optimum amount of water at the nozzle, and convey them with a high impact onto the lining. The patches were easy to install, long-lasting, and of great benefit to the producers. Since the early work in this field, many new materials and applications have been introduced to the steel industry and other high-temperature processing industries, where refractory lining life, cost, and length of equipment downtime are major is now common in these industries for the installation of new refractory linings when equipment is on-line, off-line, or holding between heats. The advantages of a gunning program are savings in the material, in labor to place it, and primarily in the service life of a lining and the minimum downtime required to replace or restore it. MEA! PEERPACTARY LININGS 41) Curved or irregular surfaces as well as flat surfaces can be covered uniformly. 2) Gunned refractories bond exceedingly well to stee! or existing refractory linings. 3) Monolithic gunned linings are more resistant to deterioration. 4) The lining is dense, homogeneous, and impermeable. | 5) Thicknesses from less than 1” up to 18” or more can be applied. 6) Joints formed in successive days or shifts of gunning are as strong as the rest of the material. Only the optimum water of hydration is added to the material, assuring maximum strength.PATCHING AND MAINTENANCE OF LININGS Repairs can be made to hot or cold linings. Regularly scheduled maintenance allows longer life of original refractory lining, greatly reducing major scheduled downtime. Bonding of the patch with the lining is exceptional because of the force of application. Aminimum crew is needed, and patching can be done at any time. Material can be held in readiness in the gun for use as. soon as a furnace door is opened. The following pages show industries in which many do refractory gunning regularly.Other in these fields should be aware of the economic benefits of a gunning program. Recommendations on choice of gunning mix and procedures can be made by any refractory Suppliers. Recommendations for the best choice of gun for each application will be made gladly by surfex pneumatic gun company. PERFORMANCE OF THE PNELIMATIONGIN - Several thousand guns are in active use on refractory applications. - Gunning mixes from all refractory suppliers have been handled successfully. -The “ positive feed” system will feed coarse, fine, dense or lightweight mixes equally well, Without “slugging” or blockages. - Excellent hydration of the mix is accomplished with the surfex nozzle.THE STEEL INDUSTRYBy far, the greatest amount of refractory gunning is done in the steel industry. The individual application are too numerous to list, but where the “gunner” is shown below- from pelletizing plants, coke ovens, and lime Kilns through soaking pits and continuous casting facilities- Gunning is a daily part of plant operation. ‘ver 100 tons of material were usec to repair the lining in the stack- cooling plate area of this blast fumace.A section 15 high was gunned 12° thick ther common appications in a blast tumace aro the bosh roa, runners, and nial brick ning of torpedo ladles is an inicate and expensive process. regular repair of he lining by a gunning program cextondsitslte signiteantyDENIM REFINING AND CHEMICALS Large propane spheres have fireproofing completed ‘on the support legs, and the third is being finished. The lining forms an excellent bond with the steel and maintenance should not be required for several decades. Of particular interest to the petroleum and chemical industries is the ability to install linings of many different materials for specialized chemical service in vessels of all shapes and size, as well as in small- diameter ducts. Surfex Pneumatic Guns have been employed for over 30 years in refineries around the world. They place insulating material, refractory material, and fireproofing material inside or outside the process equipment. Common applications are regenerators, catalytic reformers, fluidized bed units, heaters, boilers, crackers, storage vessels of various type, and associated duct work, stacks, and emission control equipment Refinery vessel prepared to receive Gunite lining on exterior surface. Mesh has been placed and material will be placed from bottom up in approximately 6'liftsae CEMENT. LIME, GLASS PLANTS Savings in downtime are most important in power generating plants. Pneumatinc gunning can lessen downtime, Since it provides a faster way to install and repair refractory linings used throughout a plant.Many plants schedule maintenance gunning at regular intervais for boiler, ash pits, coal bunkers, ducting, precipitators, cyclones, and stacks Other plants in this industry should have a pneumatic gun to take advantage of its versatility and ease of applying all types of refractory materials to hot or cold surface of any shape or size LINING COAL BUNKERS WAS ONE OF THE| |All stack need periodic maintenance and, on most projects, EARLIEST USES IF GUNITE. THE RESISTANCE TO] (Gunite refractory is chosen because of the superior bond, ABRASION AND CHEMICAL ATTACK LEADS TO ITS| impermeability ofthe material, and resistanceto spalling CONTINUED SPECIFICATION FOR THIS DUTY ==PEERACTORY GUNNING MACHINES D-6R MODEL ¢ iG MACHINES DRY/WET \ACHINES. S-GR MODEL SMA JNITING MACHINE D-3R MODEL G ING MACHINESSURFACE FINISHING EQUIPMENT COMPANY Ee COAL Agia cesta SN EO Da QU Rg eco a AN oIAY Bewectea otro Oneees msi20o2m E-mail- info@sfecindia.com, sfecjodhpur@gmail.com Website - www.sfecindia.net