title: Possible production of ceramic tiles from marine dredging spoils alone and mixed with other waste materials.
abstract: Dredging spoils, due to their composition could be considered a new potential source for the production of monolithic ceramics. Nevertheless, abundance of coloured oxides in these materials preclude the possibility of obtaining white products, but not that of producing ceramics with a good mechanical behaviour. As goal of the present research we have produced and studied samples using not only dredging spoils alone, but also mixtures with other waste materials such as bottom ashes from an incinerator of municipal solid waste, incinerated seawage sludge from a municipal seawage treatment plant and steelworks slag. Blending of different components was done by attrition milling. Powders were pressed into specimens which were air sintered in a muffle furnace and their shrinkage on firing was determined. Water absorption, density, strength, hardness, fracture toughness, thermal expansion coefficient of the fired bodies were measured; XRD and SEM images were also examined. The fired samples were finally tested in acidic environment in order to evaluate their elution behaviour and consequently their environmental compatibility. It is observed that, although the shrinkage on firing is too high for the production of tiles, in all the compositions studied the sintering procedure leads to fine microstructures, good mechanical properties and to a limitation of the release of many of the most hazardous metals contained in the starting powders.
authors.affiliation: Università di Udine, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Via del Cotonificio 108, 33100 Udine, Italy. s47912@spes.uniud.it
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baruzzo
authors.forename: Dino
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Minichelli
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bruckner
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fedrizzi
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bachiorrini
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maschio
mesh_terms: D002516:Ceramics / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008422:Materials Testing; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D013696:Temperature; D014866:Waste Products; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D014866:Waste Products