Recycling Silicate-Bearing Waste Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 28925
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cements and silicate materials for biomedical; environmental; civil engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
A world in which we are no longer dependent upon processed silicate materials is unimaginable. Silicates in civil engineering underpin our built environment and transport infrastructure to such an extent that water is the only commodity used in greater quantity than cement. Similarly, our daily encounters with silicate glasses and ceramics in the forms of windows, containers, cookware, sanitary fittings, and electronic devices are innumerable. Many of our various industrial, engineering, and agricultural activities are responsible for the generation of large volumes of silicate-bearing waste materials for which further reprocessing and redeployment are necessary.
In tandem with waste minimisation strategies, technological advances in the recycling and reuse of silicate waste streams are essential to environmental sustainability. To date, studies to convert silicate wastes into value-added materials such as secondary aggregates, construction blocks, geopolymers, sorbents, ion exchangers, and catalysts have been reported in the literature.
This Special Issue focusses on the current initiatives in the recycling of silicate-bearing waste materials. The potential topics for original research articles and critical reviews include, but are not limited to, the recycling, reprocessing, or redeployment of the following waste streams:
- Silicate Glasses: containers, windshields, flat screens, liquid crystal displays, borosilicates;
- Incineration Ashes arising from coal, paper-making, oil shale, rice husk, bagasse;
- Construction: brick-, stoneware- and cement-based demolition materials, cement kiln dust;
- Mining and Metallurgical Residues: mineral tailings, slags, red mud, spent foundry sand, stone powder, granite fines, opal waste; and
- Ceramics: sanitary ware, chamotte, and various porcelain- and clay-based residues.
Dr. Nichola J. Coleman
Dr. Samantha E. Booth
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Reprocessing
- Glass
- Cement and concrete
- Ceramic
- Clay
- Zeolite
- Geopolymer
- Aggregate
- Incineration ash
- Slag
- Construction and demolition waste
- Tailings
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