abstract
This work compares the effects of the incorporation of foundry by-products (foundry sand dust and Waelz slag) on the technological properties of three different ceramic products fabricated with different clays and fired at different temperatures: wall bricks (850 degrees C), roof tiles (950 degrees C) and face bricks (1050 degrees C). To this aim, the mixture design of experiments (M-DoE) methodology was used to define the minimum number of mixtures necessary to model and predict the technological properties (water absorption, flexural strength, open porosity, linear firing shrinkage, weight loss and apparent density) in terms of raw materials contents: clay, foundry sand dust and Waelz slag. The results obtained were interpreted in terms of the chemical and mineralogical compositions of the final products, which showed the importance of combining the M-DoE methodology with the phase equilibrium predictions to better understand the development of the fired products final properties. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
keywords
TRIAXIAL PORCELAIN BODIES; INDUSTRIAL; WASTES; BRICKS; OPTIMIZATION; TILES; SAND
subject category
Chemistry; Materials Science; Mineralogy
authors
Coronado, M; Segadaes, AM; Andres, A
our authors
Ana Maria B C Segadães
Retired Professoracknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support for this research granted by the Spanish Education and Science Ministry (Project CTM2009-11303 and F.P.I. fellowship awarded to M. Coronado).