Article of the RECICLOS Research Group with the participation of a member of the SICon Group and Ative Group is published in the journal “Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy”.
The article is titled: “Hydraulic Tiles Produced with Fine Aggregates and Pigments Reclaimed from Iron Ore Tailings” and is present in the 7th volume of the journal “Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy” 2021.
The authors of the article are: Wanna C. Fontes, José M. Franco de Carvalho, Keoma Defaveri, Guilherme J. Brigolini, Ana M. Segadães and Ricardo A. F. Peixoto . The group is composed of researchers from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), The Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) and the Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering (CICECO), of the University of Aveiro.
Confronted with the growing ecological awareness of the consumer market, the construction industry has been seeking strategies to promote a higher insertion of waste in the production chain while contributing to the technological improvement of processes and products, as well as mitigation of social and environmental impacts and, at the same time, conferring intangible value to the product. In this sense, the present work describes how iron ore tailings (IOT) can be used in the production of cement-based (hydraulic) tiles. The full summary and other information about the article can be found at the link below: