Manufacture of Clay Ceramic Batches

The properties of the clay ceramic products vary with the particle size distribution of the raw materials. 

Whereas finely ground raw materials are required for fine ceramic products, mixtures of raw materials with different particle sizes are utilized for coarse ceramic products. 

Coarse grinding of the raw materials with crushers, pan grinders, hammer mills or cross beater mills is often carried out by the raw material suppliers. Thus in ceramic manufacture only fine grinding is required, for which wet grinding in ball mills, in which greater communition effects are realized than in dry mills, is satisfactory. 

The clay constituents of the ceramic pastes are produced during raw material processing in. sufficient fineness 40 pm so that they can be immediately made into a slip by adding water in stirring tubs. This is mixed with the 

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