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Tube or pusher furnaces, hereafter called pusher furnaces, and moving bed furnaces have been used for the continuous production of ceramic powders. The present work will focus on the use of these furnaces as reactors for non-oxide ceramic powder synthesis at high temperatures (i.e. above 1773 K (1500°C)).
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Hollar, W.E., Kim, J.J. (1997). Tube/Pusher/Moving Bed Furnace Processes. In: Weimer, A.W. (eds) Carbide, Nitride and Boride Materials Synthesis and Processing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0071-4_6
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