On June 12th, 2025 Mr Francesco Carollo presented his contribution ‘Stabilization of cold consolidated waste glass supported by alkali activation and microwave heating’ at the ATIV Conference held at the University of Parma. During the talk, the latest findings of the joint work of the three research units involved in the GLASS Trea.S.U.Res project on…
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DELIVERABLE 2.1 When selecting glass-based alkali activated formulations to apply in the development of textured unfired tiles, as per milestone M2.1, steps were taken to broaden the scope of materials potentially serving as passive, decorative inserts, to include not only different types of recovered waste glass, but also the same pumice and volcanic tailings formerly…
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The project The development of valuable new products (‘up-cycling’) is fundamental for avoiding any landfilling of the glass fractions (‘waste glasses’) which are normally unemployed, e.g. due to polymer and metal contaminations [1]. The balance between inputs and outputs of supplementary materials, energy and emissions, however, remains challenging. This projects aims at defining new structural…
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DELIVERABLE 1.1 In agreement with the objectives of WP1: ‘Material Selection’, the following glasses waste sensitive to weak alkali activation (not exceeding 3M) were identified and characterized: pharmaceutical boro-alumino-silicate glass (having different degrees of contaminations from other materials), Opal glass, LCD glass at Unipd and WEEE glasses (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment like glasses…
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On 5 November 2024 the latest research results of the GLASS_Trea.S.U.Res project were presented at Ecomondo (Rimini, Italy); the international reference event in Europe and the Mediterranean basin for technologies , services and industrial solutions in the green and circular economy sectors. Ms Giulia Tameni and Mr Emanuele De…
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Fig.1 Alkali activated and sintered glass waste composites. NEG LCD glass, widely used in the production of liquid crystal displays, has been used as a matrix for the production of decorative composite materials. Coarse flakes of soda lime-glass and artistic glass were added to the fine LCD powder activated with a 2.5M KOH solution. After…
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First Glass.Trea.S.U.Res project mid-term meeting at the Department of Engineering ‘Enzo Ferrari’ of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. On July 5th, the first mid-term meeting of the Glass_Trea.S.U.Res project was held in the beautiful city of Modena with the participation of all the research groups…
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a. b. c. Figure a. Opal glass with coarse LCD loading dried at 40°C for 7 days. Figure b. LCD glass activated with KOH after curing at 40°C for 7 days and firing at 900°C. Figure c. LCD glass foam activated with NaOH after curing and firing at 900°C. The LCD glass waste was ground…
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Activated pharmaceutical glass waste after MW treatment. Microwave treatment allows to reduce the curing time of activated glass waste. In literature Microwaves have been used to harden metakaolin-based geopolimers but never for curing weak alkali activated glass powders. It is generally agreed that MW heating is more efficient, prevents the formation of temperature gradients through volumetric…
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