Ceramic slurry

Figure C2.11.3. A scanning electron micrograph of tire spherical alumina granules produced by spray drying a ceramic slurry. The granules are comprised of individual alumina particles, sintering additives, and an organic binder.

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A silver replica of a holly leaf is to be made by investment casting. (A natural leaf is coated with ceramic slurry which is then dried and fired. During firing the leaf burns away, leaving a mould cavity.) The thickness of the leaf is 0.4 mm. Calculate the liquid head needed to force the molten silver into the mould cavity. It can be assumed that molten silver does not wet the mould walls. 

This process is used to produce intricate, thin-section parts with great dimensional accuracy, fine detail, and very smooth surfaces. All ferrous and nonferrous alloys can be cast in investment molds. Investment casting begins with expendable wax patterns that are assembled into clusters, then coated with a series of successively coarser ceramic slurries. The assembly is then fired in a furnace to dry and harden the ceramic shell and to melt out the wax, leaving a cavity into which molten metal is poured to form the casting. 

This description of non-Newtonian behavior in ceramic slurries and snspensions leads us directly into a description of viscosity in polymeric materials, which are oftentimes highly non-Newtonian in their behavior. 

Identify and describe different types of ceramic slurry processing techniques. 

The general principle of gelcasting is to have a three-dimensional polymer network snrronnding a snspension of ceramic particles. The ceramic slurry contains... 

The DCC process involves an EDL-stabilized ceramic slurry that is destabilized by a time-delayed reaction involving enzyme catalysts. - The enzymes trigger chemical reactions that can be used to either increase the ionic salt content at a constant pH or shift the pH to the lER An increase in the salt concentration will... 

The ceramic slurry used in DCC consists of a high solids loaded suspension of ceramic particles such as AI2O3 with an enzyme catalyst. An example of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is shown in Equation 11.36,... 

Marasperse. [Borregaard LignoTech] Lignosulfonates or oxylignins dispersant emulsion stabilizer for ceramic slurries, stucco, agrk. formulations, dyestuffs, gypsum board, industrial cleaners, cement slurries, paper m., in mfg. of brick, tile, refractmies. 

In the present work, freeze-drying was used to prepare reticulated porous YSZ ceramics and the methyl cellulose (MC) solution was added in the aqueous ceramic slurry to modify the morphologies of pores. The influences of solid loading and MC concentration on microstmcture, porosity and bulk density were investigated. 

In this work, porous AI2O3 ceramics were fabricated by freeze casting from AI2O3 aqueous ceramic slurries, and its biological properties, such as, in vitro cytotoxicity, acute hemolysis tests, and skin sensitization reactions were also investigated. 

AI2O3 ceramics with lamellar pores and ceramic walls can be fabricated by a freeze-drying process using aqueous ceramic slurries. The relative density, porosity and strength of the porous AI2O3 ceramic is about 61,59%, 37.04 % and 31.0 MPa, respectively. 

Fluids that show a decrease in shear stress (hence in apparent viscosity) with time are termed thixotropic and are often observed with ceramic slurries. 

The ceramic slurry is typically made up of colloidal silica as the liquid medium and Ohe or more ceramic powders selected for their refractory characteristics. Typical ones are Zircon, Silica, Alumina, and Aluminosilicates... 

FIGURE 12.39 Pattern tree is dipped in ceramic slurry. 

The wax patterns are cleaned with water or organic solvent and coated with a wetting agent, which helps the ceramic slurry to adhere to the wax. The cluster is then dipped in a liquid ceramic slurry, stuccoed with granular silica, zircon or alumina/silica refractories and then dried before the application of the next coat. The coating process is continued until a sufficiently thick shell is established. 

The liquid ceramic slurry consists of a binder and a very fine refractory powder, reduced to slime by permanent mixing. The binder may be colloidal silica, hydrolysed ethyl silicate or hydrolysed sodium silicate, the choice of the technology applied being determined by technical reasons. When using ethyl silicate, drying is faster, which allows a higher cycle rate, but ethyl alcohol vapours are emitted. These vapours, if present in too large an amount, have to be collected and treated before emission. 

In another process, ceramic filters that are used to clean the slag in foundries before pouring the liquid metals are uniquely produced with microwaves. These filters that may be as large as 12 in. and 2 in. thick are made by coating, both internally and externally, an expanded polyurethane or rubber foam with a ceramic slurry. This is then dried in about 25 min for even heating, and then the filter is placed into a kiln that bums away the foam leaving the porous ceramic structure (Krieger, 1994, private communication). 

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