WORKSHOP: HOW TO EXPLOIT THE POROSITY OF GEOPOLYMERS

October 2nd, 2014 – Faenza (Italy)

GEOPOLYMERS: HOW TO EXPLOIT THEIR PROPERTIES IN THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD

Workshop is organized in the “ceramic city” of Faenza by CNR-ISTEC and the Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari“- University of Bologna, in the frame of the one-day-meeting of the Working Group on Geopolymers of the Italian Ceramic Society. Representatives of the scientific community and industry will meet to review progress on research, innovation and advantages of geopolymers with the aim of providing guidance on their most effective use in various industrial sectors.

THE GEOPOLYMERS TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL FIELD
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SCIENTIFIC COMITEE
SPONSORS

Participation is free of charge, registration is mandatory before September 1st 2014.

For info on registration and poster submission, please contact
Elettra Papa (CNR-ISTEC) or Annalisa Natali Murri (CertiMaC)
phone +39 0546 699 776/ 751; telefax +39 0546 46381
tel +39 0546 699 776/ 751
fax +39054646381

HOPE TO SEE YOU IN FAENZA!

THE GEOPOLYMERS TECHNOLOGY

Geopolymers belong to the class of the chemically bonded ceramics: they are synthesised at low temperature (20-400°C) from a variety of natural materials (mainly kaolins) but also industrial wastes, such as fly ashes and blast-furnace slags, reducing the energy demands and environmental impact during their production. One of the peculiarities of geopolymers is the fact that they possess some typical properties of ceramic materials (refractoriness), while being obtained with the same modalities of some plastic materials, with undoubted advantages in terms of less energy-consuming production process.

The porosity of these materials can be tailored depending on the process conditions: acting on the intrinsic and/or induced porosity the pores size can be varied from few tenth of nanometers to few millimeters, while total porosity can range from 30% up to 90 vol %.

Geopolymer technology allows the production of a wide range of versatile materials finding applications in many fields of industry such as: civil engineering, building, the automotive and aerospace industries, metallurgy, plastics industries, waste management, restoring, art and decoration, biomaterials, etc..

INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL FIELD

The aim of the workshop is to review the key results of the research and industry in the design and implementation of “solutions based on geopolymers” and provide guidance on how to exploit in the industrial field the porosity of the geopolymers.

Possible application will be examined for filtering, catalysis in the chemical sector for the innovative use of geopolymers as filters and membranes, supports for catalysis or sorbents, and insulation and thermal exchange in the engineering sector: thermal and acoustic insulation in buildings, firebreaks on large construction and infrastructure, thermal barrier for mechanical industry, automotive and aerospace.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

To download the Workshop Program, click HERE.

The first part of the Workshop will be dedicated to “research” in term of physical and chemical investigations by discussing the methods to create and measure the porosity.

The second part of the day will be devoted to the “industrial view” in terms of products and engineering design for the use as insulating materials for energy efficiency of buildings and for transports.

Keynote lectures will be given by experts to introduce the general topics, while research posters will be displayed and discussed during the Workshop. The best Poster will be awarded.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Enrico Bernardo, University of Padova
Dr. Sylvain Deville, CNRS/Saint-Gobain, France
Ing. Luca Laghi, CertiMaC, Italy
Dr. Valentina Medri, CNR-ISTEC
Prof. Alberto Muscio, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Dr. Arnaud Poulesquen, CEA, France

Dr. Stephan Sigrist, Micromeritics

SCIENTIFIC COMITEE

Elena Landi, Valentina Medri (Chair)

CNR-ISTEC

Patricia Benito, Angelo Vaccari

University of Bologna, Italy

Cristina Leonelli, Marcello Romagnoli

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Alberto Muscio

President AIPT / University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Luca Laghi

CertiMaC – MITAI Project – Technopole of Ravenna (Faenza headquarters)

SPONSORS

The Workshop is supported by: CNR-ISTEC, Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari“ – University of Bologna, Italian Ceramic Society (ICerS), Interdivisional Group of Catalysis – Italian Chemical Society, Division of Industrial Chemistry – Italian Chemical Society and Micromeritics Italia. The Workshop is endorsed by: “MITAI Project” carried out by laboratory CertiMaC within the Technopole of Ravenna – Faenza headquarters and Italian Association of Thermophysical Properties (AIPT).