Reusing of waste glass addition with industrial wastes and tungsten as new radiation shields: Spectroscopic and computational analysis
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Waste glass, industrial waste, Phy-X/PSD, radiation shielding capabilityAbstract
The economic and environmental problems regarding of wastes encourage the researchers to reuse the wastes and produce new materials. Waste glass is a kind of industrial waste and attracts attention among the wastes. The goal for performing the study is to evaluate waste glasses obtained by our daily routines and to determine radiation shielding abilities of the materials based on other industrial wastes. With this purpose, three samples including both waste glass and industrial wastes (Bayburt stone dust and Oltu stone dust) were produced by mixing in different ratios. Also, tungsten was added to the samples in order to improve the protection ability. The Phy-X/PSD code was used to determine the radiation protection parameters. In addition to the shielding investigation, structural properties were provided based on EPR, XRD, and SEM-EDS spectroscopic techniques. It is obtained that the shielding performance of the sample including Bayburt stone dust and marble waste with tungsten addition is the highest. The least one is achieved for the sample including Oltu stone dust and marble dust with tungsten addition. Neutron shielding capabilities are also found same as photon shielding. It can be concluded that the newly prepared samples consisting of waste glass in order to support reusing and recycling have good protective features and the usage of the samples can be recommended.
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