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Blacklight Sintering

Ceramics need to be fired. This slow process is known for its inflexibility and its energy intensity, accounting for ~2 % of global CO2 emissions. The sintering process is currently done by indirectly heating the ceramics through heating of furnaces following the same millennia old principle. This principle, however, is entangled with energy losses and … Weiterlesen …

Rethinking Sintering: Superfast, Flexible and Energy Saving from a Batch Size of 1

At the Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society – DKG – in March 2023, Lukas Porz (TU Darmstadt and Illutherm GmbH) presented a new technology in a keynote entitled “Blacklight Sintering – a Disruptive Technology for Ceramic Processing?“ For his work, he had been awarded the DGM Prize for Young Talents in autumn 2022. … Weiterlesen …