Refractory maintenance, though vital, can often be a logistical and financial burden. This is especially true for power plants, cement plants, and other large facilities that rely on boilers, kilns, ...

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed and patented a simple and cheap method of producing silicon carbide, a superhard and refractory material, from wood waste. This material is ...

Incinerators, furnaces, crucibles and kilns are used in a wide variety of industries, combusting anything from solid and liquid fuels, to solids, sludges, organic products and liquid wastes, some of ...