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Minimum Sintering Temperatures of Fluidizable Particles
Author(s) -
Compo Peter,
Tardos Gabriel I.,
Mazzone Dominick,
Pfeffer Robert
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
particle and particle systems characterization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1521-4117
pISSN - 0934-0866
DOI - 10.1002/ppsc.19840010129
Subject(s) - dilatometer , sintering , materials science , differential scanning calorimetry , composite material , economies of agglomeration , yield (engineering) , mineralogy , thermal expansion , chemical engineering , thermodynamics , chemistry , physics , engineering
Experimental methods to determine minimum sintering temperatures of a variety of granules such as polymers, glass, coal, inorganic salts, etc. are presented. These methods include the use of a dilatometer in which the contraction‐dilation characteristics of a small sample is measured, a differential scanning calorimeter test and an Instron machine by which yield strengths are measured. It is clearly shown that for the majority of materials studied, the different methods give similar values for the minimum sintering temperature but that the dilatometer experiment is the simplest as well as the most reliable method. Since the minimum sintering temperature is always less than the solid's melting point, an efficient method of measuring this temperature is very important for all fluidizable granules subjected to high temperatures. The danger of agglomeration during fluidization increases tremendously at temperatures higher than minimum sintering and therefore special precautions must be taken to avoid defluidization under these conditions.