Energy saving processes for brick shaping

» Comparison of different flow profiles

Research project conducted by the Research Alliance of the Clay Brick and Tile Industry Regd (FGZ)
Project number
AiF 17273 N
Project funded by
BMWi through the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations “Otto von Guericke” Regd (AiF)
Realized by
Brick and Tile Research Institute Essen Regd. (IZF)
Project manager
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) M.Sc. Alexander Winkel and Dipl.-Ing. Eckhard Rimpel

1 Introduction and objective

As the clay brick and tile industry is one of the most energy-intensive industries and energy costs account for a very high percentage of the cost of the finished product, new developments for the reduction of the energy consumption are extremely significant. It was investigated whether with reduced wall friction in extrusion, the moisture content and therefore the power uptake of the extruder up to drying energy consumption can be lowered. Reduction of the wall friction was to be achieved with the application of electro-osmosis.

2 Procedure

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