Carine Lourenco Alves

Technische Universität Hamburg | TUHH · Institute of Solids Process Engineering and Particle Technology

Integrated simulation of manufacturing plants plays crucial role in development of sustainable processes and optimized products. However, no investigation has been reported for the whole process chain of porcelain stoneware manufacturing. In this contribution, semi-empirical models of porcelain stoneware processing steps have been developed and imp...

Reducing the environmental impact of porcelain tile production while maintaining cost‐effectiveness is challenging. This work introduced a novel modeling approach for optimizing a standard composition range comprising kaolinite (15–38 wt.%), illite (0–20 wt.%), quartz (20–40 wt.%), and feldspar (20–45 wt.%) to establish a robust composition interva...

Heat transfer affects many industrial processes that manipulate particle temperatures due to cyclic temperature fluctuations throughout processing. Despite its importance, there is no thorough understanding of heat transfer on moist particle beds. In this contribution, a novel experimental setup was developed to evaluate the temperature evolution o...

Porcelain tile manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry that is in dire need of increasing productivity, minimizing costs, and reducing CO2 emissions, while keeping the product quality intact to remain competitive in today’s environment. In this contribution, alternative processing parameters for the porcelain tile production sequence were pro...

Porcelain tile manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry that is in dire need of increasing productivity, minimizing costs, and reducing CO2 emissions, while keeping the product quality intact to remain competitive in today’s environment. In this contribution, alternative processing parameters for the porcelain tile production sequence were pro...

In this paper, the developed BPM-based model was used to obtain further insight into one of the most critical processing steps of tile manufacturing, namely uniaxial pressing. The simulations were validated by experimental analysis considering different material and processing parameters. The validated simulations improved the previous semi-empiric...

Defectively manufactured and deliberately damaged composite laminates fabricated with different continuous reinforcing fibres (respectively, carbon and glass) and polymer matrices (respectively, thermoset and thermoplastic) were inspected in magnetic resonance imaging equipment. Two pulse sequences were evaluated during non-destructive examination...

Defectively manufactured and deliberately damaged composite laminates fabricated with different continuous reinforcing fibres (respectively, carbon and glass) and polymer matrices (respectively, thermoset and thermoplastic) were inspected in magnetic resonance imaging equipment. Two pulse sequences were evaluated during non-destructive examination...

In vitro results obtained from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NMRI) of Continuous Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) matrix composite laminates, which had been previously damaged and subsequently immersed in simulated body fluid are provided in this work. Irrefutable evidences are given in regard to the NMRI technique’s ability to detect and full...