Study of the Properties of Drill Cuttings at Their Use as Technogenic Raw Materials for the Production of Building Ceramics

Establishing the regularities in forming the properties of ceramic wall materials containing waste from gas extraction (drilling sludge)

“…Given that the waste from a specific well differs in its chemical composition from similar waste from another well, the established dependences and recommendations cannot be used without additional research. However, the methodology and results of studying the ceramic samples, reported in this paper, as well as the procedure for examining the samples of waste, described in earlier work [17], can be used for sludge from other industries or other wells. This is the advantage of our research.…”

“…The waste used to fill the ceramic masses involved the samples of drilling sludge -the waste from gas well drilling in Poltava oblast; their properties, as well as the physical-chemical and mineralogical composition, are described in detail in [17].…”

“…Annealing the samples at a higher temperature, for example, 1,100 °C, is inappropriate according to previous studies whose results are reported in [17].…”

“…The high water absorption by the samples containing sludge No. 2 (60-80 %) is characteristic of the carbonate-containing raw materials, which is logical, taking into consideration the mineral composition of this sludge described in [17].…”