A lack of young people in crafts and technical professions is the issue of the day. The profession of industrial ceramist has almost disappeared. Brick factories can still find employees to fill their...
Hydrogen is seen as a guarantor for defossilisation (decarbonisation) also in the brick industry. In addition to the questions of supply security and hydrogen handling, the focus is primarily on...
On 18 October 2022, the workshop Intermittent microwave drying for the brick industry took place at the Materials Research and Testing Institute at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (MFPA) in...
1 Background
In industrial countries green clay bricks and tiles are dried convectively with hot air produced by burners or other types of artificial energy supply. Drying is therefore associated with...
1 Introduction
The use of natural gas as fuel for firing is state of the art. Natural gas is easy to handle, and it yields very good production results.
However, regulatory pressure calling for...
