Drying of Industrial Ceramic Bricks: An Experimental Investigation in Oven

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental study of clay brick drying. For the drying experiments, industrial holed bricks were dried in an oven under controlled conditions of velocity, temperature (constant and variable) and relative humidity of air. The continuous drying experiments ended when the mass reached constant weight. Experimental tests were performed under atmospheric pressure. Results of the drying and heating kinetics and volume variations during the process are shown and analyzed. It was verified that the drying process happens in the falling drying rate period, and air temperature has large influence in the drying rate during process. It was verified that the largest temperature, moisture content and stress gradients are located in the vertexes of the brick.

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 353)
• Pages: 116-120
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.353.116
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: G. Silva Almeida*, M.A.F. Barbosa Fernandes, J.N. Ferreira Fernandes, Gelmires Araújo Neves, W.M. Paiva Barbosa de Lima, Antônio Gilson Barbosa de Lima
• Keywords: Drying, Experimental, Heating, Holed Bricks, Shrinkage

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