Briquetting of waste glass cullet fine particles for energy-saving glass manufacture

DENG, Wei, WRIGHT, Richard, BODEN-HOOK, Chris and BINGHAM, Paul (2018). Briquetting of waste glass cullet fine particles for energy-saving glass manufacture. Glass Technology: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A, 59 (3), 81-91.

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Abstract

Fine particles of glass cullet (fines) arising during glass recycling cannot presently be recycled into glass manufacture due to the potential for bubble formation and foaming. Consolidation of glass fines into briquettes could enable their re-introduction into furnaces, reducing waste and glass melting energies. Properties of briquetted cullet fines and briquette melting behaviour in soda-lime-silica glass batches are presented. Morphology and density of glass fines and briquettes; and briquette mass and mechanical properties as functions of time after formation were analyzed. Compressive strength increases linearly with time after briquette formation. With slight batch modifications to maintain the same final glass composition, up to 15 wt % briquettes were successfully added to a representative container glass batch and melted. Results confirm that briquette batch additions can provide equivalent final glass composition, optical absorption characteristics and redox to briquette-free batches, supporting their industrial uptake.

Item Type: Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Materials and Engineering Research Institute > Modelling Research Centre
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Engineering and Mathematics
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.13036/17533546.59.3.013
Page Range: 81-91
Depositing User: Paul Bingham
Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2018 13:44
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 06:55
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18808

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