Low-cost ceramic proppants are prepared with low-grade bauxite and cheap purple sand.
Proper liquid phase is generated in the proppant sintered at 1440 °C.
The proppant sintered at 1440 °C has the apparent density of 2.98g/cm3.
The proppant sintered at 1440 °C possesses the bulk density of 1.64g/cm3.
The lowest breakage ratio of 7.8% at 52 MPa is obtained from the proppant sintered at 1440 °C.