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    <language>eng</language>
    
      <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
    
    <journalTitle>Material Science Research India</journalTitle>
    
      <issn>0973-3469</issn>
    
    
    <publicationDate>2011-12-10</publicationDate>
    

        <volume>8</volume>

        <issue>2</issue>

 

    <startPage>289</startPage>
    <endPage>295</endPage>

   
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    <publisherRecordId>2653</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">An Experimental Study for Identification of Suitable Low Cost Alternative Flux Material in Manufacturing of Red Body Ceramic Glazed Tiles: A Model Study</title>

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      <author>
       <name>K. Rajasekhara Reddy</name>

 
		

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      <author>
       <name>S. S. Asadi</name>


		

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		<affiliationName affiliationId="1">Department of Civil Engineering, K L University, Green Fields, Vaddeswaram - 522 502, Guntur District, India.</affiliationName>
    


		

		

		

		

		

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    <abstract language="eng"><p>Feldspar is a very important flux material in manufacturing of ceramic tiles in ceramic industry. The Present growth rate of ceramic tile industry demands more and more feldspar. Increase in the demand for feldspar may lead to exhaust of deposits of premium quality very soon in India. In order to make the feldspar deposits available for future generation, keeping this in view an experimental attempt has been made to identify alternative flux material for manufacturing of red body glazed ceramic tiles. In this study feldspar is partially replaced with Nepheline syenite in manufacturing of red body ceramic glazed floor tiles to reduce the usage and proper management of resources of Feldspar availability in India, cost cutting of materials in order to make the final product available at less price to consumer. From this study the usage of feldspar in the red body ceramic tile industry can be reduced up to 50% and cost of final product can be reduced up to 10%.The study revealed that Nepheline syenite is having more fluxing nature then feldspar and the performance of the product is comparable with regular product.</p></abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol8no2/an-experimental-study-for-identification-of-suitable-low-cost-alternative-flux-material-in-manufacturing-of-red-body-ceramic-glazed-tiles-a-model-study/</fullTextUrl>




      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword>Feldspar</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Nepheline syenite</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Glazed floor tiles</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Ceramic industry</keyword>
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