Estudo do processo de recozimento na reciclagem de vidros para fabricação de produtos utilitários.

Abstract

One of the major health problems is the disposal of waste generated by the population and industries. In the state of Paraíba, are collected daily 2,754 tons of municipal solid waste, 30.9% of these have final disposal in landfills, 36.9% intended to controlled landfills and 32.2% have a final destination landfills. Recycling of glass indicates 100% reprocessing. Besides being 100% recyclable glass, when reused, resulting in reduced environmental impact and still contributes to diversification of manufacturing products and to decrease the final cost of its production. This work aims to study the process of annealing of glassy waste, aiming to contribute to the social development of a recycling technology for glass workers CAVI - Association of Collectors and Recyclers of Glass and other Materials. For this waste flat glass and hollow undergone five mergers and annealing with different temperature levels were used, employing techniques of recycling glass hot (fusing and slumping). Ceramic molds for the initial studies and gypsum for the manufacture of test specimens were used. The resistance after annealing was examined by impact tests, it can be seen that the samples subjected to the heat treatment study had higher impact resistance compared to samples which received no heat treatment during the melting process. The fractures obtained after the tests were analyzed macroscopically.