A ceramic deep-frying device capable of withstanding high temperatures and releasing far-infrared energy is made by grinding and mixing mullite, spodumene, energy ceramic material, ball clay, and kaolin clay into clay blank; molding the blank into ceramic green body; and sintering the green body at 1250-1320° C. for 18-24 hours. The device is completely immersed in the oil in a deep-frying vessel while leaving a gap between the device and heating pipe in the vessel or the inner bottom wall of the vessel, for enabling the oil to circulate through the through holes in the device due to temperature difference in the oil, causing the energy ceramic material to release anions and far-infrared rays that decrease van der Waals forces between oil molecules, and hence split, the oil molecules, thereby extending the service life of the oil, shortening the deep-frying time required, and lowering the oil content of deep-fried food.

The present invention is a composition and shaping of a ceramic material comprising at least one frit and at least one inorganic raw material. Some of the advantages are that said material requires a heat treatment no higher than 1180° C., that the duration of said heat treatment does not exceed 60 minutes, that the thermal expansion coefficient after the heat treatment is less than 25×10.sup.−7° C..sup.−1 in the temperature range 25° C. to 500° C. and that the material exhibits a high resistance to thermal shock, withstanding at least 10 consecutive thermal shock cycles between 600° C. and 25° C. without forming cracks or structural changes. The ceramic material composition is shaped by uniaxial pressing, band pressing, pour moulding, extrusion, injection moulding or lamination.

A recycled aluminium silicate material, suitable for use in ceramic article production, wherein the recycled aluminium silicate material has a particle size distribution such that: (i) the d.sub.50 particle size is from 10 μm to 30 μm; (ii) the d.sub.70 particle size is less than 40 μm; and (iii) the d.sub.98 particle size is less than 60 μm. A particulate mixture, suitable for use in ceramic article production, includes the above defined recycled aluminium silicate material.

A particulate mixture, suitable for use in ceramic article production, wherein the mixture includes from 30 wt % to 80 wt % recycled aluminium silicate material. The particulate mixture has a particle size distribution such that: (i) the d.sub.50 particle size is from 10 μm to 30 μm; (ii) the d.sub.70 particle size is less than 40 μm; and (iii) the d.sub.98 particle size is less than 60 μm.

Disclosed are a semi-transparent ceramic sheet decorated through ink light-absorbance and a preparation method thereof. The semi-transparent ceramic sheet comprises a semi-transparent green body, an inner inkjet pattern layer infiltrating into the semi-transparent green body from an upper surface of the semi-transparent green body, a decoloration glaze layer located on the upper surface, and a surface pattern layer located on the decoloration glaze layer. The decoloration glaze layer is capable of decoloring the ink of the inner inkjet pattern layer. The semi-transparent ceramic sheet is provided with the decoloration glaze layer so that the inkjet decoration of the inner inkjet pattern layer cannot be displayed on the surface, and the decorative pattern on the surface of the green body is the surface pattern layer and the inner inkjet pattern layer is completely in the inner layer of the green body.

A process for the production of a ceramic article includes the steps of: (a) preparing a particulate mixture; (b) contacting the particulate mixture to water to form a humidified mixture; (c) pressing the humidified mixture to form a green article; (d) optionally, subjecting the green article to an initial drying step; (e) optionally, glazing the green article to form a glazed green article; (f) subjecting the green article to a heat treatment step to form a hot fused article; and (g) cooling the hot fused article to form a glazed ceramic article. The particulate mixture includes from 30 wt % to 80 wt % recycled aluminium silicate material. The particulate mixture has: (i) a d.sub.50 particle size from 10 μm to 30 μm; (ii) a d.sub.70 particle size of less than 40 μm; and (iii) a d.sub.98 particle size of less than 60 μm. Steps (c) and (f), and optionally steps (d) and (e) are continuous process steps.

The present disclosure relates to the manufacture of ceramic products by aqueous gelcasting. Exemplary ceramic products include sanitary ware, such as toilets and sinks. The process includes a slurrying step, a mixing step, a molding step involving aqueous gelcasting, a drying step, a glazing step, and a firing step.

A complex according to the present disclosure contains a -eucryptite crystal phase and a lithium tantalate crystal phase. In a temperature range of 0 to 50 C., a coefficient of thermal expansion calculated for each 1 C. is within 01 ppm/K. Calcium is contained in the lithium tantalate crystal phase. The volume ratio of the -eucryptite crystal phase to the lithium tantalate crystal phase is from 90:10 to 99.5:0.5.

A method for preparing ceramsite by using municipal sludge as raw material, including the following specific steps: drying; preparing ingredients including raw sludge, fly ash, kaolinite, steelmaking slag, zeolite, hematite, calcareous shale, waste incineration fly ash, Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, waste glass, calcium carbonate, sodium lauryl sulfate, and sodium benzoate; mixing and stirring uniformly, and putting the stirred materials into a granulating machine for granulation; drying and preheating the material pellets after granulation, and then quickly transferring to a sintering device for first sintering at a low temperature and then sintering at a high temperature; crushing large chunks of the cooled materials; and separating and screening the crushed materials. The method of the present invention reduces the generation of the large chunks of the cooled materials in the obtained ceramsite, thereby reducing the subsequent crushing work and saving energy consumption accordingly.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing mineral ore powder using vegetable organic matters and microorganisms, particularly a method for preparing mineral ore powder by heating and pulverizing seven (7) minerals that are beneficial to the human body but contain toxins and impurities at high temperatures in a furnace, removing toxin gases and impurities through carbonization, and drying the minerals for two days with liquid or powdered vegetable organic matters and microorganisms at room temperature.

The present invention provides a method for preparing mineral ore powder, the method comprising a step of pulverizing seven (7) minerals consisting of 20% of zeolite, 10% of hornblende, 10% of elvan, 10% of illite, 10% of biotite, 20% of tourmaline and 10% of white clay into 325 mesh; a step of discharging impurities by heating the pulverized mineral powder at a temperature of 1,100 C. for a few days; a step of preparing a mineral ore powder by adding microorganisms and liquid or pulverized vegetable organic matters consisting of 30% of mulberry bark, 25% of pine needles, 20% of cypress, 15% of ginger plant and 15% of bush clover; and a step of drying the mineral ore powder at a temperature of 30 C. for 2 days to activate the microorganisms.