

Título:CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY. SANITARYWARE
Autor:SACMI
editorial:SACMI IMOLA S.C.
edición:2010
Número de páginas:366
Nº. Ilustraciones:311
| 1. Introduction | 9 |
| 1.1 Ceramic sanitaryware | 9 |
| 1.2 Product classification and standards | 11 |
| 2. Production process | 17 |
| 2.1 historical background | 17 |
| 2.2 Flow chart | 22 |
| 2.3 Factory lay - out | 22 |
| 3. Raw materials | 25 |
| 3.1 Geological overview | 25 |
| 3.1.1 Rocks | 25 |
| 3.1.2 Magma | 27 |
| 3.1.3 Clays and rocks | 27 |
| 3.1.4 Primary rocks | 28 |
| 3.2 Ceramic raw materials for bodies | 32 |
| 3.2.1 Plastic raw materials | 32 |
| 3.2.2 Non-plastic raw materials | 47 |
| 3.3 Raw materials for glazes | 57 |
| 4. Modelling and moulds | 63 |
| 4.1 Design in sanitaryware | 63 |
| 4.2 The modelling process | 65 |
| 4.3 Making plaster moulds | 74 |
| 4.3.1 Systems | 77 |
| 4.3.2 Plaster for moulds | 78 |
| 4.4 Porous resin moulds | 80 |
| 4.4.1 Porous Resin | 83 |
| 4.4.2 Drainage system | 87 |
| 4.4.3 Feasibility analysis and designing the Porous Resin mould | 88 |
| 4.4.4 Constructing the resin mould | 90 |
| 4.4.5 Porous Resin mould maintenance | 91 |
| 4.4.6 EVERES process | 93 |
| 4.4.7 Main applications for resin moulds | 94 |
| 5. Sanitaryware bodies | 95 |
| 5.1 Introduction | 95 |
| 5.2 Composition of sanitaryware bodies | 95 |
| 5.3 Technological characteristics of' bodies | 96 |
| 6. Glaze and engobe | 103 |
| 6.1 Introduction | 103 |
| 6.2 Glazes | 103 |
| 6.3 Engobe | 114 |
| 7. Preparation of body and glaze | 115 |
| 7.1 Technological aspects | 115 |
| 7.2 Body preparation processes | 115 |
| 7.2.1 Vitreous China body | 116 |
| 7.2.2 Fine Fire Clay and Fire Clay body | 120 |
| 7.3 Body preparation department flow sheet | 124 |
| 7.4 Glaze preparation process | 125 |
| 7.5 Glaze preparation department flow sheet | 127 |
| 7.6 Systems | 128 |
| 7.6.1 Storage and hatching | 128 |
| 7.6.2 Mills | 131 |
| 7.6.3 Blade-type turbo-blunger | 133 |
| 7.6.4 De-ironing devices | 134 |
| 7.6.5 Sieving | 136 |
| 7.6.6 Storage tanks | 136 |
| 7.7 Wet grinding | 137 |
| 7.7.1 Wet grinding theory | 137 |
| 7.7.2 Discontinuous wet grinding theory with Alsing mills | 139 |
| 8. Rheology | 153 |
| 8.1 Rheology: basic concepts | 153 |
| 8.2 Rheology of plastic raw materials (clays and kaolins) | 161 |
| 8.3 Rheology of bodies | 167 |
| 8.4 Rheology of glazes | 171 |
| 8.5 Deflocculants | 173 |
| 8.5.1 Inorganic deflocculants | 175 |
| 8.5.2 Organic deflocculants | 177 |
| 9. Casting | 181 |
| 9.1 General technological aspects | 181 |
| 9.2 Low pressure casting | 188 |
| 9.2.1 Technological aspects of low pressure casting | 188 |
| 9.2.2 Manual casting | 195 |
| 9.2.3 Mechanised casting | 196 |
| 9.2.4 Deterioration of the plaster mould | 202 |
| 9.2.5 Continuous-cycle low pressure casting | 203 |
| 9.3 Pressure casting | 204 |
| 9.3.1 Technological aspects specific to pressure casting | 204 |
| 9.3.2 SACMI high pressure casting modules: general characteristics | 209 |
| 9.3.3 SACMI casting machines for WC bowls and bidets | 211 |
| 9.3.4 SACMI casting machines for articles made with 2-part moulds | 218 |
| 10. Drying | 223 |
| 10.1 Theory of drying | 223 |
| 10.2 Drying curves | 236 |
| 10.3 Drying systems | 241 |
| 10.4 Alternative drying techlologies | 245 |
| 10.5 Piece handling automation | 247 |
| 11. Finishing | 251 |
| 11.1 General aspects | 251 |
| 11.2 Green finishing | 252 |
| 11.3 White finishing | 262 |
| 12. Glazing | 263 |
| 12.1 Inspection | 263 |
| 12.2 Automatic glazing | 264 |
| 12.2.1 Electrostatic glazing | 264 |
| 12.2.2 Robotised glazing | 265 |
| 12.3 Manual glazing | 268 |
| 12.4 Glazing inner surfaces | 268 |
| 12.4.1 Siphon glazer | 269 |
| 12.4.2 Glasting | 270 |
| 13. Firing | 271 |
| 13.1 Chemical and mineralogical reactions | 271 |
| 13.2 Firing curve | 278 |
| 13.3 Re-firing | 279 |
| 13.4 Kiln loading | 283 |
| 13.5 Fuels used to fire sanitaryware | 286 |
| 13.6 The combustion system | 288 |
| 13.7 Kilns | 289 |
| 13.7.1 Continuous kilns | 291 |
| 13.7.2 Discontinuous kilns | 297 |
| 13.8 Final checks (sorting) | 302 |
| 14. Defects | 309 |
| 14.1 Casting defects | 310 |
| 14.2 Drying defects | 317 |
| 14.3 Finishing defects | 319 |
| 14.4 Glazing defects | 321 |
| 14.5 Firing defects | 322 |
| 14.5.1 Body defects | 322 |
| 14.5.2 Glaze defects | 327 |
| 15. Appendix | 335 |
| Tables and figures | 335 |

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