Red firing clays for the manufacture of vessels for wine fermentation and maturation by means of technological processes
Francisca Quereda Vázquez,
M-Magdalena Lorente-Ayza,
Nevares Ignacio,
del Alamo-Sanza María,
Pamela Escrig Marín,
María Ojeda Doménech
Affiliations
Francisca Quereda Vázquez
Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica (ITC), Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas (AICE), Campus Universitario Riu Sec, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, 12006, Castellón, Spain
M-Magdalena Lorente-Ayza
Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica (ITC), Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas (AICE), Campus Universitario Riu Sec, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, 12006, Castellón, Spain; Corresponding author. Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas, Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica, Campus Universitario Riu Sec, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, 12006, Castellón, Spain.
Nevares Ignacio
Department of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, UVaMOX, Universidad de Valladolid, Unidad Asociada al CSIC, 34004, Palencia, Spain
del Alamo-Sanza María
Department of Analytical Chemistry, UVaMOX, Universidad de Valladolid, Unidad Asociada al CSIC, 34004, Palencia, Spain
Pamela Escrig Marín
Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica (ITC), Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas (AICE), Campus Universitario Riu Sec, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, 12006, Castellón, Spain
María Ojeda Doménech
Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica (ITC), Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas (AICE), Campus Universitario Riu Sec, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, 12006, Castellón, Spain
Different red firing clays (Teruel, Villar and Yesa) from the Iberian orographic system of Spain (Castellón/Teruel/Valencia) have been studied to analyze their suitability for the manufacture of technology-based ceramic vessels, studying their characterization from a ceramic technical perspective (open porosity, permeability, pore size, microstructure, process behavior, etc.), as well as from a wine maker perspective (oxygen transmission rate, OTR). The three clays have been proved as suitable for the manufacture of ceramic vessels because of their adequate behavior in the manufacturing process (although Yesa clay provides higher proneness to deform by pyroplasticity at high firing temperatures, that is, low porosities) and similar permeability with respect to certain types of existing ceramic vessels. Compared to available data of OTR, the values obtained are lower but with the same order of magnitude, and other clays from the same region have been postulated as the key for achieving higher OTRs.
