Method for drying honeycomb formed article

Details Method for drying honeycomb formed article Method for drying honeycomb formed article

2009-08-07

2011-12-13

Del Sole, Joseph (Department: 1743)

Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes

Direct application of electrical or wave energy to work

Producing or treating inorganic material, not as pigments,...

C264S631000, C264S177120, C156S089220, C034S259000

Reexamination Certificate

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08075829

ABSTRACT:
There is provided a method for drying a honeycomb formed article1. The method has the first step, where an unfired honeycomb formed article1having a plurality of cells separated by partition walls made from raw material composition containing a ceramic raw material, water, and a binder is heated and dried by microwave drying or dielectric drying, and a second step, where the honeycomb formed article1is dried by hot air drying, where hot air whose humidity was adjusted to have a wet-bulb temperature of 50 to 100° C. using a hot air drying apparatus11after the first step is passed through the cells. The method can dry a honeycomb formed article in a shorter period of time with inhibiting generation of a defect such as a deformation or breakage.

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