Granulated Foam-Glass Crystal Materials Based on Silica Rocks of the Southern Urals

The results of laboratory and technological optimization of compositions and thermal regimes for obtaining granular foam glass crystallites and industrial tests of their production from silica rocks of the Southern Ural (opoka of the Shipovsky Deposit – the Republic of Kazakhstan and tripoli of the Potaninsky Deposit – the Russian Federation) are presented. The physical and mechanical properties of GFG, obtained according to the developed technological regulations on the production line with domestic equipment, correspond to, and in a number of properties exceed the classic foam glass, which determines the wider scope of their applicability. It is concluded that the technology of production of granulated foam glass crystallites from widely distributed silica raw materials, without their pre-melting into glass, can be implemented on an industrial scale on the basis of domestic equipment.

G.I. STOROZHENKO¹, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.),
L.K. KAZANTSEVA², Doctor of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

¹ Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SIBSTRIN) (113, Leningradskaya Street, Novosibirsk, 630008, Russian Federation)
² V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (3, Akademika Koptyuga Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation)

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