Steps towards ceramic process scale-up: analysis of a laboratory process
Date
2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
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ISSN
0955-2219
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Citation
L. Mortara, A. Navarro, R. W. Whatmore and J. R. Alcock, Steps towards ceramic process scale-up: analysis of a laboratory process, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Volume 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1117-1120.
Abstract
In this paper the first steps towards a scaling up of a ceramic process are described, using as case study a lab-scale process, in which PZT ceramics are produced via an aqueous tape casting route. The process, the result of a feasibility study, was firstly analysed by drawing flowcharts; potential problems and flow bottlenecks were then identified and their solutions were pursued using a "soft" problem solving approach.