Ceramic Properties of Chimala Kaolin Clay

Mineralogy, physico-chemical properties and industrial testing of ArazGoney kaolin deposit for ceramic and tile industry

Arazgoni Kaolin deposit is located in East Azarbaijan Province, about 18 km south of Qara Aghaj, the center of Charoymaq city. The area under investigation, in the geological zoning of Iran, is a part of the Urmia-Dokhtar volcanic-plutonic belt. Most of the study area is composed of volcanic rocks with Oligo-Miocene dacite-andesitic composition which have been strongly altered by hydrothermal a...

Ceramic Properties of Pugu Kaolin Clays. Part 2: Effect of Phase Composition on Flexural Strength

Whiteware compositions prepared using Pugu kaolin and industrial grade quartz and feldspar were studied with respect to varying sintering temperatures. The strength developed was correlated to mullite (3Al2O3.2SiO2) content and the microstructure. It was observed that within the vitrification temperature range, the strength mainly depended on the mullite content and the bulk density. Above the ...

Effect of Fly-Ash Cenospheres on Properties of Clay-Ceramic Syntactic Foams

A low-density clay ceramic syntactic foam (CSF) composite material was successfully synthesized from illitic clay added by fly ash cenospheres (CS) using the semi-dry formation method. The content of CS varied in the range of 10, 30, 50 and 60 vol %. Furthermore, reference samples without cenospheres were produced for property comparison. The materials comprising different amount of the additiv...

Influence of Milled Waste Glass to Clay Ceramic Foam Properties Made by Direct Foaming Route

Optimizing of Iron Bioleaching from a Contaminated Kaolin Clay by the Use of Artificial Neural Network

In this research, the amount of Iron removal by bioleaching of a kaolin sample with high iron impurity with Aspergillus niger was optimized. In order to study the effect of initial pH, sucrose and spore concentration on iron, oxalic acid and citric acid concentration, more than twenty experiments were performed. The resulted data were utilized to train, validate and test the two layer artificia...