2025 ECerS - FIRE Summer School - Patrick Gehre

Additive Manufacturing and individual processing

Dr. Patrick Gehre

TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

The challenges of today´s world such as scarcity of energy and resources, turbulent political situation as well as environmental aspects demand for a re-thinking in view of strategical sovereignty in the high temperature application area.

There is an urgent need to strike new pathways, towards recycling and upcycling as well as towards development of new advanced materials and technologies enabling to respond quickly to changing environments. The presented paper depicts selected approaches to address such challenges in the field of high temperature materials. Recent examples include novel concepts for electrification of the ceramic, cement and metal processing industries using new developed electrodes based on refractory composite materials and/or using hybrid heating systems such as microwave plasma torch, concepts for non-premixed combustion of ammonia in porous inert media additive manufactured from composite ceramic materials as well as innovative concepts for recycling and upcycling of carbon bonded refractory materials.  

3D-manufacturing technologies will be presented as well as individual processing routes in order to fulfill the component manufacturing demands of such functional composite refractory materials.

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