Microwave processing applied to ceramic reactions

Book · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:504836

Gonzalez, M; Gomez, I; Aguilar, J ^[1]

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1. Univ. Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, San Nicolas de los Garza (Mexico). Facultad de Ingenieria Mecanica y Electrica

The necessary energy for processing ceramics usually comes from gas firing or electricity. With gas firing, ceramics processing is conducted at relative low temperatures. In the case of electric arc furnace, temperatures are high enough to smelt the material and the reaction takes place in a liquid state. In this work the authors use microwave radiation for conducting reactions between oxides to produce ceramic materials, mainly spinels. The microwave energy was supplied using an 800 W magnetron operating at 2.45 GHz. The microstructure and the mineral composition were studied by means of SEM and X-Ray diffractometer respectively.

• Sponsoring Organization: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), Mexico City (Mexico)
• OSTI ID: 504836
• Report Number(s): CONF-960401-; ISBN 1-55899-333-9; TRN: IM9733%%251
• Resource Relation: Conference: Spring meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS), San Francisco, CA (United States), 8-12 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Microwave processing of materials 5; Iskander, M.F. [ed.] [Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)]; Kiggans, J.O. Jr. [ed.] [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)]; Bolomey, J.C. [ed.] [Supelec, Gif-Sur-Yvette (France)]; PB: 681 p.; Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, Volume 430
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
MICROWAVE HEATING
MICROSTRUCTURE
MAGNESIUM OXIDES
ALUMINIUM OXIDES
POWDERS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
SPINELS
PHASE DIAGRAMS
CARBON
EXPERIMENTAL DATA