Today, the need to dispose of a huge amount of ceramic industrial waste represents an important problem for production plants. Contextually, it is increasingly difficult to retrieve new mineral resources for the realization of building materials. Reusing ceramic industrial waste as precursors for building blocks/binders, exploiting their aluminosilicate composition for an alkaline activation process, could solve the problem. This chemical process facilitates the consolidation of new binders/blocks without thermal treatments and with less CO2 emissions if compared with traditional cements/ceramics. The alkali-activated materials (AAMs) are today thought as the materials of the future, eco-sustainable and technically advanced. In this study, six different kind of industrial ceramic waste are compared in their chemical and mineralogical composition, together with their thermal behaviour, reactivity in an alkaline environment and surface area characteristics, with the aim of converting them from waste into new resources. Preliminary tests of AAM synthesis by using 80%-100% of ceramic waste as a precursor show promising results. Workability, porosity and mechanical strengths in particular are measured, showing as, notwithstanding the presence of carbonate components, consolidated materials are obtained, with similar results. The main factors which affect the characteristics of the synthetized AAMs are the precursors' granulometry, curing temperature and the proportions of the activating solutions.

Industrial Ceramics: From Waste to New Resources for Eco-Sustainable Building Materials / Fugazzotto, M.; Mazzoleni, P.; Lancellotti, I.; Camerini, R.; Ferrari, P.; Tiné, M. R.; Centauro, I.; Salvatici, T.; Barone, G.. - In: MINERALS. - ISSN 2075-163X. - 13:6(2023), pp. 815-832. [10.3390/min13060815]

Industrial Ceramics: From Waste to New Resources for Eco-Sustainable Building Materials

Lancellotti I.;
2023

Abstract

Today, the need to dispose of a huge amount of ceramic industrial waste represents an important problem for production plants. Contextually, it is increasingly difficult to retrieve new mineral resources for the realization of building materials. Reusing ceramic industrial waste as precursors for building blocks/binders, exploiting their aluminosilicate composition for an alkaline activation process, could solve the problem. This chemical process facilitates the consolidation of new binders/blocks without thermal treatments and with less CO2 emissions if compared with traditional cements/ceramics. The alkali-activated materials (AAMs) are today thought as the materials of the future, eco-sustainable and technically advanced. In this study, six different kind of industrial ceramic waste are compared in their chemical and mineralogical composition, together with their thermal behaviour, reactivity in an alkaline environment and surface area characteristics, with the aim of converting them from waste into new resources. Preliminary tests of AAM synthesis by using 80%-100% of ceramic waste as a precursor show promising results. Workability, porosity and mechanical strengths in particular are measured, showing as, notwithstanding the presence of carbonate components, consolidated materials are obtained, with similar results. The main factors which affect the characteristics of the synthetized AAMs are the precursors' granulometry, curing temperature and the proportions of the activating solutions.
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Industrial Ceramics: From Waste to New Resources for Eco-Sustainable Building Materials / Fugazzotto, M.; Mazzoleni, P.; Lancellotti, I.; Camerini, R.; Ferrari, P.; Tiné, M. R.; Centauro, I.; Salvatici, T.; Barone, G.. - In: MINERALS. - ISSN 2075-163X. - 13:6(2023), pp. 815-832. [10.3390/min13060815]
Fugazzotto, M.; Mazzoleni, P.; Lancellotti, I.; Camerini, R.; Ferrari, P.; Tiné, M. R.; Centauro, I.; Salvatici, T.; Barone, G.
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