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Continuous Microwave Sintering of Ceramics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Jiping Cheng ,
Yi Fang ,
Dinesh K. Agrawal ,
Zhangguo Wan ,
Lei Chen ,
Yunjin Zhang ,
Jian Zhou ,
Xuebing Dong  and
Jinyu Qiu
Jiping Cheng
Affiliation:
Intercollege Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Yi Fang
Affiliation:
Intercollege Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Dinesh K. Agrawal
Affiliation:
Intercollege Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Zhangguo Wan
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
Lei Chen
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
Yunjin Zhang
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
Jian Zhou
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
Xuebing Dong
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
Jinyu Qiu
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Research Institute, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
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Abstract

The microwave sintering technology is still at the developmental stage due to the limitation of the volume (or size) and batch of the ceramic products that can be fabricated by microwave processing. The present paper introduces a new microwave processing technique, i.e. a continuous microwave sintering, which makes it possible to sinter ceramic products with an infinite length in a microwave field. By this technique, alumina-mullite ceramic rollers of 40 mm in diameter and 2400 mm in length have been successfully microwave sintered. The exploratory results show this new technique could offer some new opportunities to scale up microwave sintering for industrial applications.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 347: Symposium O – Microwave Processing of Materials IV , 1994 , 557
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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