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The new gas installations of combined cycle (GICC) thermal power plants for production of electricity are more efficient than conventional thermal power plants, but they produce a high quantity of wastes in the form of slags and fly ashes. Nowadays, these by-products are stored within the production plants with, until now, no applications of recycling in other industrial processes. In order to evaluate the capability of these products for recycling in glass and ceramics inductory, an investigation for the full characterization has been made by usual physico-chemical methods such as chemical analysis, mineralogical analysis by XRD, granulometry, BET, DTA/TG, heating microscopy and SEM/EDX.

The subject of this study is the application to the construction of soft mud bricks (also known as pressed bricks), both green and heat-treated bodies, built from raw materials from Santa Cruz de Mudela, Ciudad Real, and IGCC slag from the power central of Puertollano (Ciudad Real, Spain). For this purpose, industrial level tests have been performed: the production of these kind of bricks from mixes of waste from ores of construction clays and to significant fraction of different ratios and clay granulometries mixed with IGCC slag. The results of this experimentation suggests that not only can IGCC slag be applied to a ceramic process, but also its use gives several advantages, as water and energy savings, as well as improvements on the final properties of products.

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Se exponen aquí resultados de la primera parte de investigación sobre el comportamiento en fusión de las escorias de la central térmica GICC ELCOGAS y el proceso seguido para la obtención de un vidrio utilizando estas escorias como materia prima. Se ha diseñado una mezcla vitrificable (ECSCP) compuesta por un 40% de escorias, un 30% de casco de vidrio y un 30% de carbonato cálcico precipitado de azucarera, que permitió obtener por fusión a 1450 ºC un vidrio homogéneo. El vidrio ECSCP ha sido caracterizado y se ha estudiado su cinética de cristalización a través de análisis térmicos que han puesto de manifiesto un mecanismo de cristalización preferente de tipo superficial. En una segunda parte de la investigación se utilizará este vidrio para obtener materiales vitrocerámicos de anortita/wolastonita. Palabras clave: Residuos de gasificación de carbón, escorias GICC, fusión, vitrificación, vitrocerámicos.. The slag from ELCOGAS IGCC thermal power plant as raw material for the synthesis of glass-ceramic materials. Part I:Thermal behavior of the IGCC slag and synthesis of the parent glass.We report here the results of the first phase of investigation on the melting behavior of the IGCC slag, and the use of this slag as raw component to produce glass ceramics. The vitrifying mixture named ECSCP, is composed by 40% of slag, 30% of glass cullet and 30% of precipitated calcium carbonate obtained as a by-product in a sugar refining plant. This mixture was melted at 1450ºC to obtain the ECSCP parent glass, that was then characterized and its crystallization kinetics studied by thermal analysis. The ECSCP glass exhibit a surface mechanism of crystallization, and will be used to produce anorthite/wollastonite glass ceramics in the second part of the investigation.