Swiss Aluminium Ltd.

Lonza Inc.

Swiss Aluminum Ltd.

Metoxit Ag

Konrad Kampfer

Wolfhart Rieger

Ludwig Gauckler

Reiner Kunz

Marco Dellapina

Albert Maurer

Volker Nobbe

Tiberiu Mizrah

Lugwig Gauckler

Albert Mauer

Denis Elmazi

By adding very-finely-divided or highly-dispersed titanium dioxide or aluminum titanate, optionally in a mixture with aluminum oxide, sintered products of great hardness, whose fracture toughness can be adjusted over a wide range, are obtained from aluminum hydroxide according to a sol-gel process depending on the selection of the sintering conditions. The materials are especially suitable as abrasives or for the production of ceramic powder or components.

Sintered material based on aluminum oxide

Process for producing sintered material based on aluminum oxide and

A process for scrubbing exhaust gases from diesel engines using filter cartridges of open pore ceramic foam are such that the filter cartridges are situated in the exhaust gas stream such that the exhaust gases strike the filter cartridge end and flow through it parallel to its central axis. As a result the amount of soot deposited is greatest in the part of the cartridge first meeting the inflowing exhaust gases, and decreases rapidly with increasing throughput; consequently the low efficiency part contributes greatly to the undesired backpressure. The proposed process, in which the exhaust gases flow through the most efficient part of the filter cartridge made of open pore ceramic foam, is such that the exhaust gases flow essentially transverse to the longitudinal axis and thus does not exhibit these disadvantages. The filter cartridge comprise an open pore ceramic foam for carrying out the process of the invention and comprises a cylinder with cylindrical shaped opening the central axis of which coincides with that of the cylinder. The opening can be closed at one end.

Process for scrubbing exhaust gases from diesel engines and filter

Filter medium in the form of a stable porous body of granules of spherical form bonded together by a different phase or by sintering. Preferably hollow spherical granules of corundum are manufactured into filter media in plate form. The filter media are employed for filtration of molten metal preferably aluminum.

Filter medium in the form of a stable porous body

Porous ceramic filter body and manufacturing method therefor

Filter medium in the form of a stable body made of ceramic material and employed for filtering molten metals. The filter medium is made up of at least two effective filter layers such that a relatively thick layer of large pore diameter lies on a relatively thin layer of small pore diameter. This arrangement aims at attaining the maximum possible wetting of the interior of the filter medium.

Filter medium for filtering molten metals

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Thayngen, Switzerland

Konrad Kampfer