The Use of Dust Emission from Foundry Industry as Raw Material to the Industry of Ceramic Coating

Industrial dust emission is a kind of pollution which might occur due to the green sand mold process in the foundry industry. This material is predominately composed by sand, clay, carbon and metallic oxides. The ceramic industry has already assumed the role of consumer of by-products generated by such industries, mainly by having similarity between the composition of by-products and raw material employed in the ceramic sector. In a preliminary study the dust from exhaustion was define as a thin material with a high content of non-plastic material and the presence of carbon, which can interfere with processing and properties of the final product. This study aims to show the effect of exhaustion powder addition in atomized clay in order to develop ceramic coating. The results of the effect of sintering temperature and the percentage of residue on properties such as apparent density, linear shrinkage, water absorption and open porosity are presented.