
Lightening of ceramic bricks based on red-burning clay
Author(s) -
И. А. Павлова,
Maria Sapozhnikova,
E. P. Farafontova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/687/2/022021
Subject(s) - brick , ceramic , rutile , materials science , colored , absorption of water , pigment , titanium dioxide , composite material , mineralogy , metallurgy , geology , chemistry , chemical engineering , engineering , organic chemistry
To determine the possibility of using a mineral pigment based on the rutile form of titanium dioxide in the production of volume-colored ceramic brick in order to obtain lighter brick tones the studies are conducted. The previously studied low-melting clay of the Tyumen deposit was used as a basis. It was established that significant lightening of the brick does not occur even with the introduction of 8% of the specified pigment, although some lightening is appeared. In addition, with the pigment introduction, an increase in water absorption of bricks is observed, which leads to a decrease in the sample strength. Increasing the firing temperature to 950°C does not lead to an improvement in the quality characteristics of the samples, and even vice versa makes them worse. Thus, the use of a white pigment under investigation does not give a significant effect of lightening of ceramic red-burning clay.