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Exploratory Evaluation of Ceramics for Automobile Thermal Reactors

Author(s) -

P. L. Stone,

C. P. Blankenship

Publication year - 1973

Publication title -

sae technical papers on cd-rom/sae technical paper series

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295

H-Index - 107

eISSN - 1083-4958

pISSN - 0148-7191

DOI - 10.4271/730224

Subject(s) - ceramic , thermal , nuclear engineering , materials science , computer science , engineering , metallurgy , physics , thermodynamics

An exploratory evaluation of ceramics for automobile thermal reactors was conducted. Potential ceramic materials were evaluated in several reactor designs using both engine dynamometer and vehicle road tests. Silicon carbide contained in a corrugated metal support structure exhibited the best performance lasting over 800 hours in engine dynamometer tests and over 15,000 miles (24,200 km) of vehicle road tests. Reactors containing glass-ceramic components did not perform as well as silicon carbide. But the glass-ceramics still offer good potential for reactor use. The results of this study are considered to be a reasonable demonstration of the potential use of ceramics in thermal reactors.

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