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Article

Environmental Protection with HDPE Geomembranes in Mining Facility Constructions

by
Fernando Luiz Lavoie
1,2,*,
Marcelo Kobelnik
2,
Clever Aparecido Valentin
2,
Érica Fernanda da Silva Tirelli
1,
Maria de Lurdes Lopes
3 and
Jefferson Lins da Silva
2
1
Department of Civil Engineering, Mauá Institute of Technology, São Caetano do Sul 09580-900, Brazil
2
São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo-USP, São Paulo 13566-590, Brazil
3
CONSTRUCT-GEO, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Constr. Mater. 2021, 1(2), 122-133; https://doi.org/10.3390/constrmater1020009
Submission received: 29 May 2021 / Revised: 16 July 2021 / Accepted: 10 August 2021 / Published: 13 August 2021
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Abstract

The present work evaluated two high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembranes exhumed from mining facility constructions in Brazil. The MIN sample was exhumed from a pond for water use for the iron ore process after 7.92 years of exposure. The MIN2 sample was exhumed from a spillway channel of a ferronickel tailing dam after 10.08 years of service. The physical evaluations showed high depletion for antioxidants that work in the temperature range of 200 °C. The samples presented brittle tensile behavior and had similar behaviors between stress cracking and tensile. Low tensile elongation values and low-stress crack resistance were noted. The MIN2 sample presented a higher melt flow index (MFI) value and lower stress crack resistance. Thermogravimetric curves (TG) under synthetic air purge gas evaluation showed that both samples presented a similar behavior during the evaluation but had several mass losses. The results showed that exothermic and endothermic events occurred with loss of mass and showed no combustion events in the differential thermal analysis (DTA) curve evaluation. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis showed no changes in the samples’ behavior. Thus, the results of tensile, stress cracking, and viscosity properties can demonstrate that changes in polymer structure occurred after field exposures.
Keywords: geomembrane; high-density polyethylene; durability; mining facilities construction; thermal analysis geomembrane; high-density polyethylene; durability; mining facilities construction; thermal analysis

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Lavoie, F.L.; Kobelnik, M.; Valentin, C.A.; da Silva Tirelli, É.F.; de Lurdes Lopes, M.; Lins da Silva, J. Environmental Protection with HDPE Geomembranes in Mining Facility Constructions. Constr. Mater. 2021, 1, 122-133. https://doi.org/10.3390/constrmater1020009

AMA Style

Lavoie FL, Kobelnik M, Valentin CA, da Silva Tirelli ÉF, de Lurdes Lopes M, Lins da Silva J. Environmental Protection with HDPE Geomembranes in Mining Facility Constructions. Construction Materials. 2021; 1(2):122-133. https://doi.org/10.3390/constrmater1020009

Chicago/Turabian Style

Lavoie, Fernando Luiz, Marcelo Kobelnik, Clever Aparecido Valentin, Érica Fernanda da Silva Tirelli, Maria de Lurdes Lopes, and Jefferson Lins da Silva. 2021. "Environmental Protection with HDPE Geomembranes in Mining Facility Constructions" Construction Materials 1, no. 2: 122-133. https://doi.org/10.3390/constrmater1020009

APA Style

Lavoie, F. L., Kobelnik, M., Valentin, C. A., da Silva Tirelli, É. F., de Lurdes Lopes, M., & Lins da Silva, J. (2021). Environmental Protection with HDPE Geomembranes in Mining Facility Constructions. Construction Materials, 1(2), 122-133. https://doi.org/10.3390/constrmater1020009

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