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Waste-Derived Functional Ceramic and Glass-Based Products
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Waste-Derived Functional Ceramic and Glass-Based Products

A special issue of Ceramics (ISSN 2571-6131).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2021) | Viewed by 10175

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Adel Francis

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Department of Advanced Materials, Central Metallurgical R&D Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Cairo P.O. Box 87, Egypt
Interests: ceramic processing; organosilicon polymer-derived ceramics; composite coatings; CNT-reinforced ceramic composites; bio-materials; porous and dense ceramics and glass-ceramics; waste-derived ceramics and glass-ceramics; functional ceramics; mechanical and magnetic properties; materials characterizations; biomedical and engineering applications
Dr. Ashutosh Goel

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Interests: glass; glass-ceramics; bioceramics; radioactive waste management; structure-property relationships in glasses
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Tulliani

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Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Interests: development of advanced materials for the construction sector (self-healing and self‐sensing concretes, as well as alkali‐activated materials); physical, microstructural, and mechanical characterization of materials; materials aging and decay
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Prof. Dr. Cristina Siligardi

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria "Enzo Ferrari", Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via P. Vivarelli 10/1, 41125 Modena, Italy
Interests: glass; glassceramic; glaze; enamel; cool roof; traditional ceramics; raw materials; thermal and microstructural characterization
Dr. Stephane Hocquet

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Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Avenue Gouverneur Cornez 4, 7000 Mons, Belgium
Interests: bioceramics; porous scaffold manufacturing; ceramics shaping; sintering and characterizations
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization, coupled with dwindling resources and waste pile-ups, have untoward environmental impacts on ecosystem services and human health. Turning waste into functional ceramic and glass-based products is a promising and potentially economical strategy towards application-oriented products. Ceramic and glass-based materials play a vital role in our modern society due to their outstanding properties. Functionalization of wastes by the combination of heterogeneous substances has become an opportunity for the development of new high quality products with suitable magnetic, electrical, biological, adsorption, optical and mechanical properties for technical and industrial purposes. The scope of this special issue includes, without being limited to, the following themes: processing methods and technologies, industrial and municipal wastes, chemistry and structure of wastes, physicochemical and engineering properties of waste-derived ceramic or glass-based products and their applications, characterization of functional properties. Full research articles, short communications and comprehensive reviews dealing with topics are welcome.

Dr. Adel Francis
Dr. Ashutosh Goel
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Tulliani
Prof. Dr. Cristina Siligardi
Dr. Stephane Hocquet
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Porous and dense ceramic and glass-based products
  • Functional and mechanical properties
  • Waste processing
  • Glass-ceramics
  • Composite materials
  • Powder technology and sintering
  • Sorbents for wastewater treatment or metal removal
  • Biological evaluation
  • Engineering and industrial applications

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Pathway towards a High Recycling Content in Traditional Ceramics
by Elisa Rambaldi
Ceramics 2021, 4(3), 486-501; https://doi.org/10.3390/ceramics4030036 - 7 Sep 2021
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The present work shows the path towards the industrial production of ceramic tiles containing a high amount of recycling materials in the substitution of natural raw materials. Starting from the applied research at laboratory scale, which is able to demonstrate the work feasibility, [...] Read more.
The present work shows the path towards the industrial production of ceramic tiles containing a high amount of recycling materials in the substitution of natural raw materials. Starting from the applied research at laboratory scale, which is able to demonstrate the work feasibility, other important milestones consist of pilot scale production until the proper industrial production. Finally, when all these steps are positively achieved, the practice is consolidated and it is possible to reach the concrete sustainability benefits (social, environmental and economic). The results of an industry driven project that aimed to produce porcelain stoneware tiles containing 85% of recycled materials were selected to show this path. This innovative ceramic product—containing soda-lime scrap glass from urban-separated collection (post-consumer waste) and unfired scrap tiles from industrial ceramic process (pre-consumer waste)—was sintered about 200 °C lower than a traditional porcelain stoneware tile. It maintains high technical performances belonging to class BIa of the International Standard of ceramic tile classification (EN ISO 14411). Moreover, this product fulfils the standard requirements for dry-pressed ceramic tiles with low water absorption (≤0.5%), and it obtained the certification UNI Keymark. The LCA study was also performed and the results showed a significantly lower environmental impact of this innovative product compared to a traditional porcelain stoneware tile. Full article
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Recyclable Porous Glass-Ceramics from the Smelting of MSWI Bottom Ash
by Patricia Rabelo Monich, Hugo Lucas, Bernd Friedrich and Enrico Bernardo
Ceramics 2021, 4(1), 1-11; https://doi.org/10.3390/ceramics4010001 - 29 Dec 2020
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Material from the electric arc furnace smelting of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash was easily converted into highly porous glass-ceramics by a combination of inorganic gel casting and sinter-crystallization at 1000 °C. In particular, the gelation of aqueous suspensions of fine [...] Read more.
Material from the electric arc furnace smelting of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash was easily converted into highly porous glass-ceramics by a combination of inorganic gel casting and sinter-crystallization at 1000 °C. In particular, the gelation of aqueous suspensions of fine glass powders, transformed into “green” foams by intensive mechanical stirring, occurred with a limited addition of alkali activator (1 M NaOH). The products coupled the stabilization of pollutants with good mechanical properties (e.g., compressive strength approaching 4 MPa). Interestingly, they could be used also as raw material for new glass-ceramic foams, obtained by the same gel casting and sintering method, with no degradation of chemical stability. Limitations in the crushing strength, derived from the limited viscous flow densification of semi-crystalline powders, were overcome by mixing powders from recycled foams with 30 wt% soda-lime glass. The new products finally featured an even higher strength-to-density ratio than the foams from the first cycle. Full article
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