Contemporary Engineering Sciences, Vol. 8, 2015, no. 33, 1565 - 1570 HIKARI Ltd, www.m-hikari.com http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/ces.2015.511299 Effect of Stirring Time and Sintering Temperature on the Properties of Porous Tricalcium Phosphate Using White Particles as Pore-Creating Agent Ahmad Fadli Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Riau University Jln. Hr. Subrantas Km 12.5, Pekanbaru, Riau 28293, Indonesia Bahruddin Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Riau University Jln. Hr. Subrantas Km 12.5, Pekanbaru, Riau 28293, Indonesia Fitra Dani Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Riau University Jln. Hr. Subrantas Km 12.5, Pekanbaru, Riau 28293, Indonesia Copyright © 2015 Ahmad Fadli et al. This article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The present work reports a simple process for fabrication of porous tricalcium phosphate (TCP) ceramics from aqueous powder slurries using wheat particles as pore forming agent. The objective of this research is to learn the effect of stirring time and sintering temperature on the physical properties of porous TCP. Wheat particles incorporated in aqueous TCP slurries and stirred for 1, 2 and 3 hours. Subsequently the slurry was dried in oven at 80˚C for 24 hours and 120˚C for 8 hours. The dried green bodies showed shrinkage in the range 53 -56%. Removal of the pore former followed by sintering at 1000 and 1100˚C produced TCP bodies with porosity 59 – 78% and compressive strength 0.3 - 2.5 MPa. Keywords: Compressive strength, Porosity, Tricalcium Phosphate, Ceramics