Date: Wednesday, April 18
Time: 12pm
Location: CR 314
Speaker: Dr. Jen Walsh, CoorsTek Corp.
Title of Talk: Manufacturing Non-oxide Technical Ceramics at CoorsTek: Reactor Considerations for High Temperature Material Synthesis
Abstract: CoorsTek is the world’s leading technical ceramics company with 30 locations spread across the Americas, Europe, and Asia with over 6000 employees. Technical ceramics have a wide variety of chemical compositions with desirable physical properties making them suited for a wide variety of applications. One sub-group of ceramics, the non-oxides, are chemically synthesized. These reactions require reactors that operate at extremely high temperatures and have solids handling capabilities. Several styles of these reactors with be introduced along with a discussion of their advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, some considerations of process scale-up will be discussed.