• openAccess   Beyond the energy balance: Exergy analysis of an industrial roller kiln firing porcelain tiles 

      Ferrer Castán, Salvador; Mezquita, Ana; Aguilella, Vicente; Monfort, Eliseo Elsevier (2019-03)
      The ceramic tile manufacturing process consumes large amounts of energy, mainly in the firing stage. Firing usually takes place in natural gas-fuelled continuous roller kilns, the most widely used tile firing facilities ...
    • openAccess   Revisiting pyroplastic deformation. Application for porcelain stoneware tile bodies 

      Sánchez-Vilches, Enrique; Sanz-Solana, Vicente; Cañas Recacha, Eugeni; Sales Gil, Juan; Kayaci, Kagan; Taskiran, Ugur; Anil, Ümit; Türk, Senay Elsevier (2018-09-21)
      In this research an analysis of firing deformation tendency in porcelain stoneware tile compositions was carried out based on pyroplastic deformation measurements. The effect of the amount and nature of some fluxing additives ...