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US 12,291,486 B2Granted
Porcelain stoneware production process and products
AssigneeSaxa Grestone S.P.A.
InventorFrancesco Borgomeo
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a technology for the production of porcelain stoneware products, wherein the treatment process allows to re-use recovery materials coming from the treatment of urban waste. In particular, the present invention relates to the production of products for the construction of driveways.
Claims12
A process for preparing a porcelain stoneware product comprising:
- treating ashes with carbonation reactions for at least 20 days to lower a pH of the ashes, wherein the ashes are residual from combustion of urban waste;
- performing deferrization and de-metallization of the ashes;
- combining the ashes with a plurality of raw materials for preparing porcelain stoneware to provide a mixture, wherein the mixture comprises between 1% and 40% by volume of the ashes;
- grinding a dose of the mixture to provide a particle size of less than 150 m;
- and
- homogenizing the mixture with wetting during a rotation phase to provide a humidity rate between 4% and 8%,
- wherein the porcelain stoneware product comprises a tread surface, a base surface, and an average thickness extending from the tread surface to the base surface of greater than or equal to 4.5 cm, and
- wherein said ashes have a composition of:
- Na2O
- MgO
- Al2O3
- SiO2
- P2O5
- SO3
- Cl2O
- %
- 2.84
- 2.75
- 17.08
- 36.08
- 1.23
- 0.85
- 1.12
- K2O
- CaO
- TiO2
- Fe2O3
- CuO
- ZnO
- %
- 1.06
- 30.21
- 1.74
- 4.03
- 0.45
- 0.56.
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