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MATERIALS
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15031043
Keywords
up-cycling; glass waste; alkali activation; flame synthesis; porous glass microspheres
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- European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [739566]
- Slovak Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport, VEGA [1/0456/20]
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In this study, fiber glass waste was alkali activated in aqueous solutions with different concentrations of sodium/potassium hydroxide, leading to the formation of porous glass microspheres in a methane-oxygen flame. The use of highly concentrated activating alkali solutions favored pore formation, with the highest effectiveness observed with a 9 M KOH aqueous solution.
Fiber glass waste (FGW) was subjected to alkali activation in an aqueous solution with different concentrations of sodium/potassium hydroxide. The activated materials were fed into a methane-oxygen flame with a temperature of around 1600 degrees C. X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed the formation of several hydrated compounds, which decomposed upon flame synthesis, leading to porous glass microspheres (PGMs). Pore formation was favored by using highly concentrated activating alkali solutions. The highest homogeneity and yield of PGMs corresponded to the activation with 9 M KOH aqueous solution.
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