FRIT/FRITTING

• Is a product that is prepared by melting

mixture of several raw materials at high
temperature

• Fritting : premelting of some composition

of the glaze for specific purposes
 • Pysically- similar to glass

Shape

Granular Platy
(through quenching) (through rolling)
 Granular form
• quenching or directly pour melt
of certain glaze composition
(Frit) into water reservoir

Glaze
melt
Water
reservoir
Frit in the form
of granular
 Platy form
• Quenching of premelts through
rotating cylinders (cooled with
water)

Penuangan
leburan

Selinder yang Kepingan seperti kaca: dipecah

disejukkan oleh air dan disejukkan diudara
Fritting – Expensive process and using of its
increased production cost
• Thus good consideration about it should
be taken into consideration:
• Introducing of soluble materials in glaze
• Allow use of toxic materials
• Alow use of refractory materials
• Stability of composition and glaze
products
 REQUIRED PROPERTIES IN
GLAZE
• Related to the properties of glass at high
temperature such as:
1.Viscosity:
Solid
crystal
Viscosity
Log

Glaze

Melting point Temperature

• Solid crystal: Viscosity will drastically
drop as temperature increased (at or
exceed melting point).
.
 • Viscosity/fluidity of glaze at high
temperature is difficult to determine.

Glaze
pellet

Flow of glaze melt

Refractory block
30 
groove

Alat bagi pengukuran kebendaliran/kelikatan licau

• More viscous, the shorter the flow.

Viscosity should be sufficiently low in

order for the gas to move freely and
have good flow.

but
Not too fluid which can lead to vertical
run-off problem(side, vertical run-off)
 2. Surface Tension
(ST-Surface tension)
• low as possible in order to form a
smooth and flat surface.

S.T – allowed surface smoothing

glaze

body
High S.T

Body
Before firing

creep

Body

After firing
3.Coefficient expansion, 
•  for glaze and body should be
similar or  for body is slightly bigger
than  glaze.
• memberikan keadaan licau dalam
mampatan tetapi jasad dalam tegangan
hasilkan rekatan jasad-licau lebih baik
serta tambahkan sedikit kekuatan mekanik
pada jasad
• If large difference – cause crazing (fine
cracks) of glaze