Evaluation of Bagasse Ash for Application in Glass Manufacture
1 Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Industrial Design, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
3 Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
* Corresponding author: jtagwoi@yahoo.com
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
3 Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
* Corresponding author: jtagwoi@yahoo.com
Abstract
Bagasse ash results from burning bagasse, a matted cellulose fiber residue from sugarcane that has been processed in sugar mills. In this paper, Bagasse ash has been chemically characterized in order to evaluate the possibility of its use in glass manufacture. The result of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) showed the ash to contain SiO2 - 31.67%, K2O - 31.41%, P2O5 - 8.14%, MgO - 4.89%, CaO - 3.92%, Na2O - 3.17%, Fe2O3 - 1.23% the ash was normalized as no LOI was carried out. Qualitative and quantitative X-ray diffractometry (XRD) for determination of composition and presence of crystalline material, showed the presence of silica in free and various combined states and potassium magnesium carbonate. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM/EDS) at 100µm and 300µm showed clusters of spherical and rod like microstructure at different spectra
Keywords
Silicates waste
Bagasse Ash
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How to Cite
T., T. J., D., G. A., A., A. E., F., A., & S., Y. D. (2016). Evaluation of Bagasse Ash for Application in Glass Manufacture. Nigerian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, 7(2), 13-17.
T. J. T., G. A. D., A. E. A., A. F., and Y. D. S., "Evaluation of Bagasse Ash for Application in Glass Manufacture," Nigerian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 13-17, December 2016.
