Project Description

Chemical and physical parameters

Contact person: Giuliana Bonvicini – bonvicini@centroceramico.it – Mobile: +39 340 2227688

  • Residue at 105 °C
  • Residue at 600 °C
  • Metals with attack
  • Metals without attack
  • CrVI
  • Release test – 24 h

Chemical analysis

Contact person: Andrea Bernasconi – bernasconi@centroceramico.it – Mobile: +39 345 8410333

Chemical analysis by ICP-OES UNI EN ISO 21587-1 and UNI EN ISO 21587-3

  • Clays and equivalent (9 determinations) P.F., SiO2, Al2O3, TiO2, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, K2O, Na2O
  • Tests on the eluates 10:1 UNI 10802 (attack)
  • Tests on the eluates 10:1 UNI 10802 (determinations)

Mineralogical and microstructural characterisation

Contact persons:

XRD analysis

  • XRD analysis (with or without interpretation)
  • Quantitative XRD

Microscopic analysis

  • SEM observation
  • EDS Microanalysis
  • Stereomicroscope observation
  • Optical microscope observation
  • Images
  • Quantitative microscopic analysis (porosity and pore/grain size distribution, etc.
  • Petrographic analysis (thin sections)

Thermal analysis, granulometry, specific surface

Contact person: Giovanni Ridolfi – ridolfi@centroceramico.it – Mobile: +39 345 9317030

Thermal analysis

  • Heating microscope
  • DTA up to 1200 °C
  • DTA up to 1200 °C and back
  • DTA up to 1500 °C
  • DTA up to 1500 °C and back
  • TG
  • TG + DTA and back
  • TG + DTA

Granulometry

  • Laser granulometry (clays or equivalent, other materials…)
  • Sieve

Specific surface

  • BET – specific surface area ISO 9277:2010
  • BET – specific surface area ASTM C 1069