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Fabrication and characterization of sintered recycled glass designed for polluted soil filtering
(2014-07) Cuadrado Castillo, Wesley; Suárez, O. Marcelo; College of Engineering; Díaz, Rubén; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Valentín, Ricky
Soil pollution generates diseases, hunger, and agricultural problems. Porous recycled glass beds were produced to study the feasibility of using them for polluted soil filtering. This research discusses structural and mechanical parameters of filters made from commercially available powdered recycled glass. M30 and MG80 powdered recycled glass were sintered from 700ºC to 800ºC at different times. Porosity and percolation characteristics were studied according to changes in sintering parameters and MG30-MG80 mixture ratios. Moreover, since TiO2 can serve as a photocatalyst to degrade soil pollutants, the effects of adding TiO2 to recycled glass powders were also studied. Resulting porous glass specimens were characterized by optical microscopy and their porosity assessed by quantitative image analysis. Additionally, samples percolation was determined by recording the elapsed time to obtain a water volume change of 600 ml. Finally, we obtained a map that specifies recycled glass filter’s porosity, percolation, and compression characteristics according to sintering time, sintering temperature, glass particle size, and the percentage of TiO2 added.