Obtenção de rochas sintéticas a partir de resíduos de vidro comercial e pó de granito

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Nociti, Denyse Meirelles [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Vidro; Granito; Resíduos sólidos; Microestrutura; Fractografia; Reaproveitamento (Sobras, refugos, etc.); Rochas igneas; Glass
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123274

This paper was intended to produce and characterize synthetic rocks in a microstructural, mechanical and fractographic way. Such rocks were obtained from the mixture of commercial glass waste and granite powder. This research was divided in two steps: in the first one it was to determined the amount of materials used in the mixture and the sintering temperature in order to produce synthetic rocks with higher mechanical strength and lower energy consumption, while in the second the synthetic rocks were submited to some tests, such as roughness measurement, flexural strength, fracture toughness by the SEVNB method, hardness, wettability and apparent porosity. In this first step two compositions were defined in order to produce the samples. The first composition contained 1/3 of granite powder, 1/3 of ambar glass waste and 1/3 of transparent glass waste; the second one contained 60% of granite powder, 30% of ambar glass waste and 10% of transparent glass waste. It was also determined the sintering temperature: 850ºC for the first composition and 1050ºC for the second one. Other tests, such as: X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry were also performed. The results of the experiments in the second step were compared to andorinha, an ordinary kind of Brazilian gray granite and showed that synthetic rocks are very promising and viable. Synthetic rocks presented lower wettability and porosity values and higher flexural strength and hardness values, when compared to the samples of andorinha. It could be concluded that the first composition was the most relevant from the commercial point of view (1/3 of granite powder, 1/3 of ambar glass waste and 1/3 of transparent glass waste) for it presents higher flexural strength value and lower sintiring temperature value. This represents a considerable economic gain