- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Concrete and Cement Materials Research
- Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Pigment Synthesis and Properties
- Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
- Nuclear materials and radiation effects
- Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis
- Civil and Structural Engineering Research
- Building materials and conservation
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Glass properties and applications
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica
2012-2015
Raw materials used by the ceramic industry in Jaén (southern Spain) consist of mixtures carbonated clays from Guadalquivir Basin and red Iberian Massif. The formulation usually obeys empirical experience developed this for many generations. This work evaluates different possibilities using these raw to manufacture new products on basis clay physical-chemical properties analyzes limitations produce high added value products. As an alternative overcome limitations, mixture with near regions...
Incorporation of waste into ceramics can be an eco-friendly alternative for modification their microstructure and related properties such as porosity, pore size and, therefore, permeability mechanical properties. In this work, two wastes are added to a common clay mixture traditionally used porous manufacturing: Screen Glass, G, from monitors TV panels, Diatomaceous Earth, D, oil-filtering processes. Processing the reference clay-based material (R) waste-containing formulations (10 wt.%...
From a selection of inorganic industrial waste (screen glass, steelworks ashes, coal power plant biomass ash and sludge from cutting marble industry) with organic fraction (diatomaceous earth oil filtration) it is expected to obtain ceramic materials properties similar those used in construction porous thermal insulating capability. The ternary phase equilibrium diagram SiO 2 -Al O 3 -CaO has been as the main tool for formulation these materials. dynamic sintering study was carried out using...
This work evaluates some preliminary results of adding two kinds wastes in characteristics clay mixtures with the aim producing lighter structural ceramic products. The selected are marble cutting dust and a packaging waste mainly composed by paperboard polyethylene. In case mixtures, they focused to manufacture both common facing bricks. New based formulations proposed on basis chemical mineralogical compositions clays previous experiences literature. Especial attention is paid initial...