Method for manufacturing glass-ceramic composite
AssigneesUniversità Di Padova, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
InventorsMohammed A. Binhussain, Paolo Colombo, Enrico Bernardo, Majed A. Binmajed, Mauro Marangoni, Hamad H. Atalasi, Amer M. Alajmi
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a glass-ceramic composite using natural raw material and waste glasses. The invention provides a method for manufacturing a white glass-ceramic composite using waste glass and a whitening agent. The invention also provides a method for manufacturing a colored glass-ceramic composite using waste glass, the whitening agent and a coloring agent.
Claims10
A method for manufacturing a glass-ceramic composite, the method comprising:
- grinding a set of raw materials to fine powder, wherein the set of raw materials comprises cullet and a whitening agent;
- sieving the fine powder for filtering out particles having diameter more than about 90 microns;
- mixing the fine powder with a predefined amount of water to obtain a homogenous mixture;
- shaping the homogenous mixture;
- drying the homogenous mixture in response to shaping;
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- firing the homogenous mixture at a temperature of about 750° C. to about 1100° C.
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