MASERG's main areas of research include: the development of new materials for energy applications; stabilization/solidification of hazardous industrial solid waste, soils and sediments; the preparation of concrete and materials geopolimerici based on fly ash, blast furnace slag, tuff powder, foundry slag, slag from incineration of MSWI.
Research object is also the durability of the products, obtained through the formation of calcium silicate and hydrated aluminum trisulphate, even in the presence of chlorides and sulphates; inerting by mechanochemical treatment of industrial waste containing asbestos and sediments.
We also studied the reuse of products from building materials and the assessment of the life cycle (LCA) of the production processes of environmentally friendly building materials.
We also studied the reuse of products from building materials and the assessment of the life cycle (LCA) of the production processes of environmentally friendly building materials.
Research activities
- Materials Characterization with Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy and Phase Contrast Microscopy,
- Mercury
Intrusion Porosimetry,
- Characterization of Organic Solvents with GC-MS
procedure,
- Characterization of Powders with Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS)
- Innovative concretes for thermal energy storage systems, FEM simulation of TES modules. C
- hemically modified electrodes for Microbial Fuel Cells,
- Cementitious composites,
- Hydrides for hydrogen storage.
- Materials Characterization: Thermal Characterization, X-Ray Diffraction, Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, Electric/Microstructural Characterization
- Use of "Car Fluff" from the demolition of the vehicles for the production of artificial aggregates for granulation in order to evaluate the physical-mechanical characteristics and structural properties
- Evaluation of physical, mechanical and structural properties of self-compacting concretes made with industrial waste
- Selection and evaluation of the process parameters for the production of artificial aggregates
- Study of concrete mixtures made from granulated blast furnace slag for geothermal applications, such as energy piles;
- Optimization and characterization of mixtures of geopolymers hybrid foamed.