@conference{
author = "Omerašević, Mia and Krsmanović, Miomir and Pavkov, Vladimir and Radovanović, Željko and Egerić, Marija and Nenadović, Snežana and Bučevac, Dušan",
year = "2023",
abstract = "There is a global tendency to reduce the consumption of energy required for heating as well
as cooling buildings. Therefore, thermal insulation technology becoming important in
preventing both, the gain and loss of heat through the building envelope. This work aims to
evaluate the feasibility of using inexpensive raw materials such as kaolin and waste material
such as seashells and banana peel for fabrication of the sustainable anorthite-based porous
ceramics for thermal insulation. Kaolin was used as a source of Al2O3 and SiO2, seashells as a
source of CaO whereas banana peel was used as a pore former. The phase composition, bulk
density, open porosity, compressive strength, microstructure, and thermal conductivity of the
ceramic samples, were analyzed. The obtained results showed that the variation of pore former (banana peel) content and sintering temperature was an effective way to control the
thermo-mechanical properties of the obtained anorthite ceramics. Samples with open porosity
(1.4 – 45%), compressive strength (>15 MPa), bulk density (1.87-2.62 g/cm3
), and thermal
conductivity (0.097-3.67W/mK) were obtained after sintering of samples with different
percent of banana peel at 1100–1200 ◦C. It suggests that the obtained porous ceramics can be
used for cost-effective thermal insulation of buildings.",
publisher = "Belgrade : Serbian Ceramic Society",
journal = "Advanced Ceramics and Application :11th Serbian Ceramic Society Conference : program and the book of abstracts; September 18-20, 2023; Belgrade",
title = "Fabrication of porous anorthite-based ceramics using solid wastes for costeffective thermal insulation of buildings",
pages = "61-62",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_vinar_11627"
}