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A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF NATURAL GAS AND OF HYDROGEN UPON VARIOUS REFRACTORIES *
Author(s) -
RUPRECHT BERTRAM C.,
PIERCE R. H H.,
HARVEY FRED A.
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1934.tb19304.x
Subject(s) - brick , magnesite , refractory (planetary science) , materials science , tube furnace , hydrogen , carbon fibers , carbon monoxide , metallurgy , tube (container) , natural gas , mineralogy , composite material , chemistry , catalysis , magnesium , biochemistry , organic chemistry , composite number
Natural gas was passed through an electric‐tube furnace where it was partially cracked and then through a second furnace containing the sample of a refractory. The refractories tested were fireclay brick of various types and fired in various manners and brick made of magnesite, high alumina material, and silica. The action on the refractory was similar to that of carbon monoxide. Carbon was deposited in some of the refractory bodies within a critical temperature range. Some of the fireclay bodies were almost completely disintegrated by the growth of the carbon deposits, although others were scarcely affected. Hydrogen gas had no disintegrating action at any temperature studied.