Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia

About: Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Symplectic geometry. The organization has 291 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7682 citations. The organization is also known as: TEI of West Macedonia & TEI of Western Macedonia.

ESEM-EDX characterisation of airborne particles from an industrialised area of northern Greece

Abstract: The aim of this study was to characterise individual airborne particles collected from the Ptolemais-Kozani region (Western Macedonia), northern Greece. Throughout a 1-year period (March 2003 to February 2004), we collected several filters that captured airborne particles at seven sampling sites distributed throughout the area. The airborne particles captured on the filters were then characterised by environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). The particles were categorised as geogenic, biogenic and anthropogenic. The main anthropogenic airborne particles were fly ash (released from lignite-fired power plants) and carbonaceous (soot and char) and metalliferous (mainly iron- and copper-enriched) particulates. We present here characteristic ESEM and EDX spectra for the airborne particles and underline the presence of characteristic primary and secondary sulphates.

Fired ceramics 100% from lignite fly ash and waste glass cullet mixtures

Abstract: In the present study, the development of new building ceramics is investigated, using 100% lignite fly ash (FA) and waste glass cullet (WGC) mixtures as secondary industrial raw materials towards circular economy. Thus, compacted and sintered (at 700 and 900 °C) ceramic bodies based on binary WGC/FA mixtures, with WGC loadings up to 15%, were fabricated. The utilization of WGC (amorphous) aimed at lowering the sintering temperature of the mixture, for energy reduction purposes, via a better heat flux regulation in the material. The successful consolidation/densification of the ceramic microstructures, mainly composed of different silica phases, was achieved upon synergistic sintering at 900 °C for 2 h. Moreover, the successful consolidation/densification was confirmed by the SEM micrograph observation and the porosity evaluation from the SEM micrographs. The addition of WGC yielded to a drastic decrease in the porosity values (down to 12%) for the samples sintered at 900 °C for 2 h. This porosity decrease favored, in turn, the substantial microhardness increase (up to 3833 HV) due to the pore sealing by the glassy phase of WGC. Moreover, an exponential relationship between microhardness and porosity was revealed. Finally, further investigation of the processing conditions is currently underway towards the optimization of the attained ceramic microstructures in order to meet the requirements of specific applications.