Abstract:
A method for manufacturing porous ceramic articles comprised of a primary sintered phase ceramic composition. The method includes the steps of providing a plasticized ceramic precursor batch composition including ceramic forming inorganic batch components; a liquid vehicle; an organic binder system; and a pore forming agent comprising at least one peroxide containing compound. An extruded green body is formed from the plasticized ceramic precursor batch composition and subsequently fired under conditions effective to convert the extruded green body into a ceramic article comprising a porous sintered phase composition. Also disclosed are ceramic article produced by the methods disclosed herein.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing porous ceramic articles comprised of a primary sintered phase ceramic composition. The method includes the steps of providing a plasticized ceramic precursor batch composition including ceramic forming inorganic batch components; a liquid vehicle; an organic binder system; and a pore forming agent comprising at least one peroxide containing compound. An extruded green body is formed from the plasticized ceramic precursor batch composition and subsequently fired under conditions effective to convert the extruded green body into a ceramic article comprising a porous sintered phase composition. Also disclosed are ceramic article produced by the methods disclosed herein.
Abstract:
A porous ceramic material is disclosed having a principal cordierite phase, the porous ceramic material exhibiting a normalized strength greater than 20 MPa. The cordierite phase has a reticular microstructure. A method for forming a porous ceramic body having a predominant phase of cordierite is provided which includes forming a body from a plasticized mixture of inorganic ceramic-forming ingredients that include a magnesia source, a silica source, and an alumina source, the alumina source including alumina-containing elongated particles, wherein at least 90 wt% of the alumina-containing elongated particles have a length of 50 to 150 ?m, and then firing the body.
Abstract:
A process for making large zircon blocks by bonding multiple zircon components, and bonding materials for use in such process. The invention enables the manufacture of large zircon blocks without the need of larger-size isopressing equipment. The invention is particularly useful in making large-size isopipes for use in a fusion down-draw process in making glass sheets for use in, e.g., LCD production.
Abstract:
Alumina-silica catalyst supports having substantially high surfaces areas are formed by extrusion, drying and firing of a plasticized batch including an alumina-silica powder component, acid, organic binder and water. The alumina-silica powder component can be formed either by the mixing of alumina- and silica-source powders or by forming a slurry therefrom which is spray dried to form a particulate material prior to batching.
Abstract:
A porous ceramic material is disclosed having a principal cordierite phase, the porous ceramic material exhibiting a normalized strength greater than 20 MPa. The cordierite phase has a reticular microstructure. A method for forming a porous ceramic body having a predominant phase of cordierite is provided which includes forming a body from a plasticized mixture of inorganic ceramic-forming ingredients that include a magnesia source, a silica source, and an alumina source, the alumina source including alumina-containing elongated particles, wherein at least 90 wt% of the alumina-containing elongated particles have a length of 50 to 150 ?m, and then firing the body.
Abstract:
A porous ceramic substrate includes a first phase of microcracked cordierite ceramic material and a second phase of non-cordierite metal oxide particles dispersed in the cordierite ceramic, wherein at least a portion of the interface between the first and second phases is wetted by glass and the particles of the second phase have a size in the range of from about 0.1 to about 10 µm. A method for toughening a porous microcracked cordierite ceramic includes the steps of providing a cordierite batch composition; adding to the cordierite batch composition at least one non-cordierite forming metal oxide or metal oxide precursor; mixing the batch composition with a pore former, binder, and water into a paste; shaping the paste into a green body; firing the green body; and annealing the fired green body at a temperature below the firing temperature to form a toughened cordierite ceramic honeycomb having a second phase of crystallized non-cordierite particles dispersed within the cordierite ceramic, wherein at least a portion of the interface between the first and second phases is wetted by glass.
Abstract:
A composition is disclosed comprising a fine zircon component having a median particle size of less than 5 µm, a medium zircon component having a median particle size of from 5 µm to 15 µm, and a sintering aid, wherein the composition, after firing, has a strain rate of less than about 1 10 -6 /hr. A method for making a green body comprising contacting a fine zircon component having a median particle size of less than 5 µm, a medium zircon component having a median particle size of from 5 µm to 15 µm, and a sintering aid, and then forming the mixture into a desired shape is disclosed.
Abstract:
A method for improving the thermo-mechanical properties of an aluminum-titanate composite, the composite including at least one of strontium-feldspar, mullite, cordierite, or a combination thereof, including: combining a glass source and an aluminum-titanate source into a batch composition; and firing the combined batch composite composition to produce the aluminum-titanate composite. Another method for improving the thermo-mechanical properties of the composite dips a fired composite article into phosphoric acid, and then anneal the dipped composite article. The resulting composites have a thin glass film situated between the ceramic granules of the composite, which can arrest microcrack propagation.
Abstract:
A zircon composition having a multi-modal particle size distribution is disclosed. The multi-modal zircon composition comprises greater than about 40 parts by weight of a coarse zircon component having a median particle size of from greater than about 3 µm to about 25 µm, and less than about 60 parts by weight of a fine zircon component having a median particle size of 3 µm or less. Methods for manufacturing a green body and a fired refractory ceramic body comprising the multi-modal zircon composition are also disclosed.