Glass Wool from Waste Glass

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• Personal Author:
  Feld, Ignatz L. ; Goode, Alan H. ; Tyrrell, Miles E.
• Description:
  Glass wool meeting requirements for commercial use was made from glassy fractions of urban solid wastes by the Bureau of Mines. This research was a part of the Bureau's program to develop building products and other usable materials from reclaimed urban waste materials. Mixes of molten glass were fiberized into glass wool during laboratory studies by impingement of a jet of compressed air on a stream of the molten glass. The principal test variable studied was composition of the melt; this was varied by adding dolomite and alumina to obtain molten glass with the handling characteristics required for producing final wool products of the desired composition and physical characteristics. When no charge is made for the waste glass and approximately $75 per ton can be obtained for the wool product, an interest rate of return on investment after taxes of about 12 percent can be obtained. If a charge of $5 per ton is required for the waste glass, a selling price of about $78 per ton would be necessary to obtain a 12-percent- interest rate of return on investment after taxes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Case Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  TURC - Tuscaloosa Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10008956
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-214642
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB 214 642 :16 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB 214 642
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f46838baaa08a70cf714b56915cec2a3c8565f97be9af272caddb713ce203ad5f5240961e63b5a4d73d3732441d388868ff893cc41c07ea85ee07b050425908c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/237622/cdc_237622_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.00 MB ]