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Paper Number : CE-I08
Time Frame : 15:40~16:05
Presentation Date : Friday, 28, November
Session Name : Ceramics Culture and Education
Session Chair 1# : Woo-Seok Cho
Session Chair 2# : Toyohiko Sugiyama
Trend of Research and Development for Environmentally Benign Ceramic Technology in Gifu Tono Region
Tetsuya KAMEYAMA
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Key word: Environmentally Benign ceramic, Porcelain, Ceramic processing

The western Tono area, including the cities of Tajimi, Toki, and Mizunami, possesses excellent mass-production technology for pottery/porcelain and related products, and is one of the largest pottery/porcelain production regions in Japan. The industry, mainly producing the ceramic tableware and ceramic tile, had accounted for about 40%of production output in Japan. However, sales had fallen dramatically in recent years because of a prolonged recession.
In this area, therefore, it was a priority to advance local industries and to encourage sustainable
development. The universities and research institutes in this area had achieved outstanding results in terms of manufacturing techniques such as porous ceramics and functional inorganic particles, as well as in the technology required to reduce the environmental load based on catalysts and recycling.
The aims of this project supported by Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports, Science and Technology-Japan was to create a new industry involving environmentally friendly pottery/fine ceramics by fusing the technological seeds of universities and research institutes with the technical capabilities of industries in the area. Using these technologies, we have sought to develop the following materials: 1) materials to counter the heat-island effect, 2) particles effective in shielding from infra-red radiation, 3) ceramics effective in environmental cleanup, and 4) environmentally benign pottery, etc. Figure 1 shows the developments themes and products conducted in this project.
Consequently, the Western Tono Area has successfully developed many new products [1]. As the typical example, new porcelain sintered at fired temperatures lower than 300oC compared with conventional porcelain. This decreasing fired temperature of porcelain contributed to reduce an almost 40% in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Another invention was a high-temperature superheated steam generator of which main parts utilized new conductive ceramics could be used in various applications, such as the high-efficiency washing of electronic parts and the recycling of carbon fiber in the carbon fiber reinforced plastics. Furthermore, the developed materials in this project would be examined in terms of their potential for commercialization.

Reference:
[1] T. Kameyama, Bull. Ceram. Soc. Japan. 49 (2014) 780.
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