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 Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute
A National laboratory under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR,INDIA)
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Areas of Research
  • Value addition to Indian refractory minerals such as bauxite, magnesite for high performance refractory.
  • Hydration resistant sintered lime and lime refractory.
  • Synthetic refractory aggregates.
  • Alumina-chrome refractory and its corrosion behaviour in molten glass.
  • Alumina-spinel refractory with and without carbon & its wear mechanism.
  • Monolithic castable refractory for Iron & Steel and Petrochemical industries.
  • High value added ceramic products utilising solid waste of processing industries.
  • Bulk utilisation of industrial waste/byproduct such as fly ash, iron ore tailings, BF & EAF slag, red mud, rice husk ash, marble sludge, garnet sand, sillimanite sand, zircon sand etc.
  • Refractory-slag corrosion study.
Technologies Developed/Under Development
  • Hydration resistant sintered lime and lime refractory products thereof.
  • High density sintered dolomite.
  • Vitrified Ceramic Tiles utilizing solid industrial wastes such as Iron & Steel slag, Iron Ore Slime, Fly ash, red mud etc.
  • High alumina cement free self flow castable (70-95% Al2O3) (Transferred).
  • Rice husk ash nodules for heat insulation (Transferred).
  • Synthetic high alumina aggregates, Mag-chrome aggregates from friable chrome ore (Transferred).
  • Magnesium aluminate spinel aggregate & zirconia-mullite aggregates.
  • Low cement and ultra low cement castables (Transferred).
  • High alumina and garnet based abrasion resistant tiles (Transferred).
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