SURFACE HEAT TREATMENT
OF FACING AND OTHER MATERIALS
WITH CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY 
V. V. Pasichnyi and V. Ya. Berezhetskaya

UDC 662.997:666.642

Surface treatment of building materials, ornamental 
ceramics, cover-coat enamels, blast-furnace and open-hearth slags, 
and natural stones of the basalt type has been carried out with the 
use of solar furnaces and their simulators for the purpose of obtaining 
protective-decorative vitreous and glazed coatings. The specific energy 
consumption and the optimum heat fluxes necessary to obtain high-quality 
coatings have been determined. The results of searching investigations 
testify to the fact that renewable environmentally safe concentrated 
solar energy can be utilized in industry and the national economy 
for surface heat treatment of different materials by melting them 
in the air.


I. N. Frantsevich Institute of Problems of Material Science, 
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine; 
email: pasichn@imps.kiev.na; 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 6, 
pp. 143-145, November-December, 2001. Original article submitted 
March 2, 2001.

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