Desenvolvimento de massas cerâmicas para grés sanitários utilizando resíduo de vidro plano como fundente em substituição parcial ao feldspato.

Abstract

The concern with the environment has been the propeller spring for reevaluation of several of the productive processes in all the society. The world-wide population has if come back toward the concepts of sustainability and thus some segments related to science and technology it comes searching alternatives to control or to minimize damages caused by the indiscriminate consumption of raw materials and energy, beyond the high volume of generated residues. In this perspective this work had as objective to study the possibility of the incorporation of plan glass residues, deriving of the glass factories and the landfills of Campina Grande/PB, in ceramic masses for sanitary stonewares in partial substitution to the feldspar. The raw materials were characterized through the assays of Chemical Analysis; Grain Sized Analysis; X-ray Diffraction; Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Infrared Absorption; Termogravimetry and Differential Thermal Analysis. Were formulated through program REFORMIX ceramic masses with and without plain glass residues in the percentages of 5%, 7% and 10%, and posteriorly evaluated its rheological properties. The ceramic bodies were initially dried in heater at 110ºC, and after burned at temperatures of 1000ºC, 1100ºC, 1200ºC and 1250ºC. We characterized the ceramic bodies through the following assays physicist-mechanics: water absorption; apparent porosity; apparent specific mass; assay of flexion in three points and linear retraction, all following the recommendations of Sousa Santos and the norms of the ABNT. The results evidenced that the ceramic bodies obtained with plain glass residues presented physicist-mechanical properties that attend the recommended patterns for use in sanitary stonewares, being technologically viable its use.