Recycling of $CO_2$-Silicate Bonded Sand

  • Kwon, Hyuk-Moo (Dept. of Metallurgical Eng. Chungnam National University) ;
  • Lee, Seoung-Won (Dept. of Metallurgical Eng. Chungnam National University)
  • Published : 1996.03.01

Abstract

Once-used $CO_2$-silicate bonded sand from domestic foundry is mostly discarded in a reclaimed land because of its bad collapsibility and reproduction properties. So this causes serious environmental problem. We can get 82% recovery of silica from used sand by scrubbing reclamation process in this research. When we repeat the reclamation-recycling of the foundry sand, artificial silica sand is broken down below 2-cycles, but natural silica sand does not destroyed when used repeatedly more than 10-cycles and have a good property of recycling with little change of its size.

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