The growing environmental concern brought great interest in recycling of materials. This paper shows the use of waste glass in bone china, and the analysis of the rheological behavior of bone china compositions, in which the feldspar flux was partially replaced by recycled glass. We evaluated slip viscosity, shear stress, shear rate, and viscosity in function of dispersant addition, considering the specificity of each raw material. The casting pieces were analyzed for ease of demoulding, wall-forming time and visual quality of the parts. The slip with glass showed stability and rheological behavior similar to the feldspar slip.
bone china; slip casting; rheology; recycled glass
