In my understanding, sintering process is used for the first stage in the material processing to cyrstallize the related material. The initiate state can be amorphous to form crystal state. Annealing is the further stage of sintering that has objective to make better structures. Therefore usually annealling was done at quite longer time in compare with sintering process and in some case it usually accompanied with gas flow. The third one, calcination is used to describe the solid state reaction. For example when powder A and powder B are mixed and heated, to produce new compound.
Could any one please give comments and further suggestion or corrections?
Dear Ibrahim... Sintering or frittage is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by heat or pressure without melting it to the point of liquefaction. ... The word "sinter" comes from the Middle High German sinter, a cognate of English "cinder".
Annealing is a heat treatment for solid products, the purpose of which is to remove any thermal stress from the products like waves usually seen in glass. The annealed material will be homogeneous and the performance is highly improved.
Calcination is the high temperature ignition or firing which helps to remove any organic content and allows the decomposition of inorganic compounds into the oxides (like calcium carbonate into CaO). It helps the development of pores in the material.... Regards
Please check this RG threads: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_Annealing_Calcination_and_Sintering_process https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_annealing_sintering_and_calcination https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_sintering_and_calcination
https://www.researchgate.net/post/what_is_annealing_calcination_sintering_quenching
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