Abstract
Aluminum dross is produced in the process of industrial production and regeneration of aluminum. Currently, the main way to deal with aluminum dross is stacking and landfilling, which aggravates environmental pollution and resource waste. In order to find a green and environmental protection method for the comprehensive utilization, the aluminum dross was used as raw materials to prepare sintered brick. Firstly, the raw material ratio, molding pressure and sintering process were determined by single factor test and orthogonal test, and the mechanism of obvious change of mechanical strength of sintered brick was studied by XRD and SEM. The experimental results show that, the optimal formula of sintered brick is 50% aluminum dross, 37.50% engineering soil and 12.50% coal gangue. The optimum process parameters are molding pressure 10 MPa, heating rate 8 °C/ min, sintering temperature 800 °C, holding time 60 min. The samples prepared under the above formula and process parameters present outstanding performance, and the compressive strength, flexural strength and water absorption rate are 16.21 MPa, 3.42 MPa and 17.12% respectively.
Highlights
Globalization and population growth have increased the consumption of natural resources, resulting in a huge amount of waste
Some scholars have studied the influence of various factors on the harmless treatment of aluminum dross and adopted the aluminum dross after harmless treatment to prepare non-fired bricks [1], while some scholars have investigated the use of aluminum dross to prepare inorganic flocculants [2], coating material [3,4], refractory materials [5], steelmaking deoxidizers [6], concrete [7] and other products
The XRD patterns of raw materials and products are analyzed by Jad drawn by origin2018, and the mechanical strength change graph is drawn by origin2
Summary
Globalization and population growth have increased the consumption of natural resources, resulting in a huge amount of waste. The solid waste disposal method, which uses aluminum dross as raw material for the preparation of sintered brick, has the advantages of large disposal volume and easy to obtain solidified materials. This is an excellent method of solid waste disposal. Some experts and scholars have studied the use of coal gangue, fly ash, red mud, gold mine tailings, iron ore tailings and other raw materials to prepare sintered brick [10,11,12,13,14], realizing the comprehensive utilization of solid waste. In addition to aluminum dross, engineering soil and coal gangue are used as raw materials for making sintered brick. After obtaining the best process parameters for preparing sintered brick, the experiment was carried out for phase composition analysis and microscopic scanning analysis, and the formation mechanism of the mechanical strength of sintered brick was studied
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