Open AccessAurubis iron-silicate fines: universal sustainable construction material: a state-of-the-art review
Author(s) -
E Manolova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/951/1/012005
Subject(s) - raw material , sustainability , production (economics) , variety (cybernetics) , material efficiency , business , manufacturing engineering , waste management , engineering , construction engineering , computer science , ecology , chemistry , macroeconomics , organic chemistry , artificial intelligence , economics , biology
This article brings together a lot of research information that deals with iron-silicate fines (ISF), as a basic by-product produced by the copper plant of Aurubis, located in Bulgaria. As a rare material, produced only in couple of plants in the world, ISF has a wide variety of applications due to its specific physical, chemical and mechanical characteristics. Well known for decades by the clinker cements industry, nowadays Aurubis presents a wide variety of new perspectives for creating green and sustainable building materials out of ISF. Sustainability in the construction sector is mostly referred to as zero waste scenarios related to the use of recycled and secondary materials (RSM). Such RSM materials differ significantly and their performance remains to be established separately as well as the properties of the construction products produced by them. Besides this each production unit has its own experience with raw materials for its production and introducing a new one is always causing some initial doubts. ISF not only covers preliminary expectations but even exceeds them. One of the main purposes of this article is to present opportunities to academics, researchers, design engineers, research and development & production managers in companies, specialists and contractors, for sustainable building products development of this not so well-known material with great potential. Most of the presented applications are prepared on industrial scale with different percentages of ISF for testing the effect of its quantity on the properties of the final products.