This book covers the details of the specialized advanced refractories, their essentiality, functions, materials used, properties, degradation and possibilities for improvements. Elaborated details with various schematic figures and real-life photographs are included with special focus on iron and steel industries. It is based on different multi-national/international refractory organizations and their products correlating with fundamentals and concepts.

Features:

• Describes the design and types of refractory materials used in different industrial applications, along with their wear mechanisms.
• Focusses on for specific applications during iron and steelmaking.
• Includes numerous schematic diagrams with labelling and product photos with application areas.
• Reviews details of background, requirements from user industries, progress with time, materials used, compositions and properties.
• Mentions failure mechanisms, and pertinent improvement/modifications.

This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers and professionals in refractory materials, pyrometallurgy, and iron and steelmaking.