Effect of waste glass addition on DC electrical conductivity of illite Available to Purchase

Glass belongs to the materials, which are produced in many forms and, theoretically, it is a 100 % reusable material. Several papers have been devoted to the reuse of waste glass for the production of different industrial products, including its possible reuse in the production of traditional ceramics. In this paper, illitic clay (86 mass% of illite, 6 mass% of montmorillonite, 4 mass% of orthoclase, and 4 mass% of quartz) with the addition of waste glass (car windshield glass) were studied using DC electrical conductivity. The thermally activated processes during heating were also studied using thermal analyses like – differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermogravimetry (TG), and thermodilatometry (DIL). Elemental analysis of the waste glass was carried out using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurement. The increasing amount of waste glass in the samples led to an increase in the DC conductivity of the samples.