Mineral wool waste back to loop with advanced sorting, pre-treatment, and alkali activation

Project Information

WOOL2LOOP

Grant agreement ID: 821000

DOI 10.3030/821000

Project closed

EC signature date 3 May 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 30 November 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 6 716 690,50

EU contribution € 5 294 937,86

Coordinated by

SAINT-GOBAIN FINLAND OY
Finland

Deliverables

Documents, reports (20)

Report about mineral wool waste composition and quality variability
Safety guideline for mineral wool geopolymer production
Policy recommendations
Report about durability properties of mineral wool geopolymers
Report about environmental and human health risks of mineral wool sorting, pre-treatment, and processing

Report about environmental and human health risks of mineral wool sorting pretreatment and processing

Annual summary of periodic activity reports 1
Dissemination and communication summary report 4
Dissemination and communication summary report 2
Annual summary of periodic activity reports 3
Summary report for all demonstrations
Report on identified reuse and recycling practices of mineral wool wastes
Test protocols for the products from pilot production
Report on benchmarking of the mineral wool waste-based products compared to existing solutions

Report on benchmarking of the mineral wool wastebased products compared to existing solutions

WOOL2LOOP circular model
Instructions for pre-treatment of mineral wool wastes

Instructions for pretreatment of mineral wool wastes

Dissemination and communication summary report 1
Guidelines for recycling mineral wool geopolymers
Dissemination and communication summary report 3
Dissemination and communication plan
Annual summary of periodic activity reports 2

Other (1)

Online 3D printing platform

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Final conference
Project website

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

Publications

Thesis and dissertations (3)

The Effect of Admixtures on the Buildability of 3D Alkali-Activated Materials with Glass Wool.

Author(s): Firas Sameh Abdel-Karim Al-Share', FIras
Published in: 2022
Publisher: FIras Firas Sameh Abdel-Karim Al-Share'

Glass wool as geopolymer raw material: Milling process waste with Mil-Tek IC60 screw mill

Author(s): Kohvakka, Tuomas
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Theseus

Lasivillajätteiden alkaliaktivointi ja niiden mekaaniset ominaisuudet

Author(s): Heikkilä, Jaana
Published in: 2020
Publisher: J. Heikkilä, 2020

Conference proceedings (2)

Optimization of alkali-activated mineral wool mixture for panel production

Author(s): Majda Pavlin, Ana Frankovič, Barbara Horvat and Vilma Ducman
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute

Dissolution Studies of Glass Wool and Stone Wool at Alkaline pH

Author(s): Rajeswari Ramaswamy, Juho Yliniemi, Tero Luukkonen, Ilkka Vesavaara and Mirja Illikainen
Published in: 2019
Publisher: 1st International Conference on Smart Materials for Sustainable Construction—SMASCO 2019

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Characterization of mineral wool waste chemical composition, organic resin content and fiber dimensions: Aspects for valorization

Author(s): Juho Yliniemi; Rajeswari Ramaswamy; Tero Luukkonen; Ossi Laitinen; Álvaro Nunes de Sousa; Mika Huuhtanen; Mirja Illikainen
Published in: Waste Management 131, 2021, Page(s) 323-330, ISSN 0956-053X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.06.022

Effect of organic resin in glass wool waste and curing temperature on the synthesis and properties of alkali-activated pastes

Author(s): Patrick N. Lemougna, Adelou Adediran, Juho Yliniemi, Tero Luukkonen, Mirja Illikainen
Published in: Materials & Design 212, 2021, ISSN 0264-1275
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Mechanical, micro-structural and mineralogical evaluation of alkali-activated waste glass and stone wool

Author(s): Majda Pavlin, Barbara Horvat, Ana Frankovič, Vilma Ducman
Published in: Ceramic International vol. 47 issue 11, 2021, ISSN 0272-8842
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.

Early-age properties of alkali-activated slag and glass wool paste

Author(s): Zhenming Li; Irving Alfredo Flores Beltran; Yun Chen; Branko Šavija; Guang Ye
Published in: Construction and Building Materials 291, 2021, ISSN 0950-0618
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.123326