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Comunicaciones SEA 2001 – Baeza (Jaén)<br />

SOCIEDAD<br />

ESPAÑOLA DE ARCILLAS<br />

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WALL FORMATION RATE AND<br />

FILTRATION RATE IN KAOLINS<br />

Ferraz E a , Coroado J a , Gomes C a , Marques J c , Rocha F a<br />

a<br />

Dpto. <strong>de</strong> Geociencias. Universida<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> Aveiro. Portugal.<br />

b<br />

Instituto Politécnico <strong>de</strong> Tomar. Esco<strong>la</strong> Superior <strong>de</strong> Tecnologia <strong>de</strong> Tomar. Portugal.<br />

c<br />

Centro Tecnológico da Cerâmica e do Vidro. Coimbra. Portugal.<br />

The Wall Formation Rate is a parameter of paramount importance in<br />

whiteware ceramics. However its assessment do not provi<strong>de</strong>, in many cases,<br />

reproducible values. The goal of the present work is to corre<strong>la</strong>te the Wall<br />

Formation Rate (WFR) with Filtration Rate (FR) for several commercial kaolins.<br />

FR is a simple and efficient parameter that can be achieved rapidly and without<br />

ambiguity using a filter press.<br />

Our proposal is to rep<strong>la</strong>ce, in industrial p<strong>la</strong>nts, the WFR method by the FR<br />

method, in or<strong>de</strong>r to have a procedure able to yield reproductive FR values directly<br />

proportional to WFR values.<br />

The experimental results herein disclosed show a very good positive linear<br />

corre<strong>la</strong>tion (R 2 =0.97) between WFR and FR methods.<br />

Introduction<br />

For WFR <strong>de</strong>terminations a p<strong>la</strong>ster mould was used. WFR is a parameter<br />

commonly used in whiteware ceramics, however experience points out for several<br />

problems, such as: maximum number of p<strong>la</strong>ster use (as a rule, 30-40); water<br />

saturation (even after p<strong>la</strong>ster drying at low temperature); saturation of fine pores<br />

by the slip casting; and the difficulty of dismoulding due both to the wrinkles and<br />

the rugosities formed in the mould bottom.<br />

For FR <strong>de</strong>terminations a filter press apparatus was used that avoids the<br />

inconveniences referred to for WFR <strong>de</strong>terminations.

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