Project Description
Chemical analysis
Contact person: Andrea Bernasconi – bernasconi@centroceramico.it – Mobile: +39 345 8410333
Chemical analysis by ICP-OES UNI EN ISO 21587-1 and UNI EN ISO 21587-3
- Clays and equivalent (9 determinations) P.F., SiO2, Al2O3, TiO2, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, K2O, Na2O
- Refractory materials and equivalent (9 determinations)
- Respirable Crystalline Silica: evaluation of the size weighted relevant fine fraction content in powders (SWeRFcs Method)
Colour measurements
Contact person: Barbara Mazzanti – mazzanti@centroceramico.it – Mobile: +39 340 9631182
Colour measurements
- Powder whiteness
- Colour coordinates
Mineralogical and microstructural characterisation
Contact persons:
- Barbara Mazzanti – mazzanti@centroceramico.it – Mobile: +39 340 9631182
- Giovanni Ridolfi – ridolfi@centroceramico.it – Mobile +39 345 9317030
XRD analysis
- XRD analysis (with or without interpretation)
- Quantitative XRD
Microscopic analysis
- SEM observation
- EDS Microanalysis
- Stereomicroscope observation
- Optical microscope observation
- Images
- Quantitative microscopic analysis (porosity and pore/grain size distribution, etc.
Thermal analysis, density, granulometry, specific surface
Contact person: Giovanni Ridolfi – ridolfi@centroceramico.it – Mobile: +39 345 9317030
Thermal analysis
- Heating microscope
- DTA up to 1200 °C
- DTA up to 1200 °C and back
- DTA up to 1500 °C
- DTA up to 1500 °C and back
- TG
- TG + DTA and back
- TG + DTA
Density
- Determination of absolute density of ceramic powders UNI EN ISO 18753
- Determination of the density by helium pycnometer
Dilatometry
- Thermo dilatometric analysis (green), heating up to 1000 °C and cooling
- Thermo dilatometric analysis (green) heating up to 1200 °C and cooling
- Thermo dilatometric analysis, heating up to 1500 °C
- Thermo dilatometric analysis, heating up to 1500 °C and cooling
- Linear thermal expansion ASTM E 228
Granulometry
- Laser granulometry (clays or equivalent, other materials…))
- Sieve
Mercury porosimetry
Specific surface
- BET – specific surface area ISO 9277:2010
- BET – specific surface area ASTM C 1069
- BET – specific surface area – not clayish materials
