Raw Materials Laboratory

The research area of the ING-IND_29  "Raw Material Engineering" sector deals with the scientific and engineering aspects relating to primary and secondary resources and the characterization and treatment processes of primary raw materials such as minerals, rocks, and secondary raw materials as civil and industrial waste.

The production and subsequent reuse of secondary raw materials and the consequent decrease in waste generation is a current and important topic at European level, promoted by means of European strategic plan on the circular economy (CE Action Plan) and the End- of-Waste, for which the waste ceases to be waste and becomes a by-product.

 The research activity of the Raw Materials Engineering group is aimed at various topics, and hosts several spaces dedicated to Laboratories such as:

• Marble and Ornamental Stones Laboratory
• Rock and Mineral Recognition Laboratory
• Solids Processing Laboratory
• Multimodal Analysis Laboratory (LAM)
• Asbestos Analysis Laboratory (Torino and Arquata Scrivia)

EQUIPMENT:

Marble and Ornamental Stones Laboratory teaching and research equipment:

  Equipment for freeze-thaw cycles Capon Abrasimeter Vacuum pump for the determination of apparent density and open porosity Skidtester for determination of the resistance to slipperiness Press for flexural strength tests bilancia idrostatica Knoop hardness tester UPV tester Resonance frequency for the calculation of the dynamic elastic modulus

Equipment for freeze-thaw cycles

Capon Abrasimeter

Vacuum pump for the determination of apparent density and open porosity

Skidtester for determination of  the resistance to slipperiness

Press for flexural strength tests

Hydrostatic balance

Oven

Lab bow tester for evaluating the bowing tendency of marble

Knoop hardness tester

UPV tester

Resonance frequency for the calculation of the dynamic elastic modulus

Schmidt's hammer

Methylene blue and sand equivalent tester

Rock and Mineral Recognition Laboratory educational equipment

Didactic collection of minerals and rocks Didactic collection of minerals and rocks

Teaching collection of minerals and rocks

Radioactivity meter

Solid Treatment Laboratory Educational and research equipment

Magutt CR 25 Jaw crusher Loro Parisini Roll crusher Sep. electrostatic Coronatron DENVER flotation cell Sieves for particle size distribution Separatori magnetici ERIEZ e DAVIES Shaking table WEDAG - Gravity Concentrator - Oven Jig WEDAG type HARTZ BOND bar-ball mills _ MICRO DEVAL - Los Angeles

RETSCH knife mill

Magutt CR 25 Jaw crusher

Loro Parisini Roll crusher

HAZEMAG Hammer crusher

Sep. electrostatic Coronatron

DENVER flotation cell

M10 Jaw crusher

Disc mill S.I.M.A.

Sieves for particle size distribution

Magnetic separator ERIEZ  and Davies

Shaking table WEDAG -  Gravity Concentrator - Oven

Jig WEDAG type HARTZ

BOND bar-ball mills _ MICRO DEVAL - Los Angeles

Conveyor belt

LAM Multimodal Analysis Laboratory research and teaching equipment

LAM Multimodal Analysis Laboratory research and teaching equipment DRX- Rigaku SmartLab SE diffractometer InVia ™ Confocal Raman Microscope Electronic Scanning Microscope and EDX spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscope (FTIR) - Shimadzu AIM-9000 microscope equipped with a Shimadzu IRTracer-100 spectrophotometer

DRX- Rigaku SmartLab SE diffractometer

InVia ™ Confocal Raman Microscope

Electronic Scanning Microscope and EDX spectroscopy (SEM-EDX)

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscope (FTIR) - Shimadzu AIM-9000 microscope equipped with a Shimadzu IRTracer-100 spectrophotometer

Asbestos Analysis Laboratory Research Equipment

Hoods Hoods Vacuum pump Polarizing and phase contrast microscopes Crusher under hood

Hoods

Anemometer

Vacuum pump

Macroscope

Polarizing and phase contrast microscopes

Ultrasonic bath

Mill for release index

Crusher under hood