Rosette Gault, Ph.D. asks questions. Three rivers meet by this fountain in Pittsburgh, PA site of MS&T24 Symposium on Sustainable Manufacturing.
Despite so many "new" products to clear water and air, why do pollution and excessive carbon production persist?
We have a chance to re-think ceramic manufacture methods and materials use in a way we never quite could do before now. The reduction of carbon excess is just one of many considerations.
🟢 Evidence over five decades suggests that products made of paperclay ceramic material offers practical opportunities for manufacturers at scale to lower fuel/energy cost, emissions and effluents in water and air between about 20-50%, and other advantages.
🟢 The material is especially useful for industries developing/producing lightweight, durable products like ceramic membranes, water, air and other filtration, propellers, mixing blades, building materials/cements, refractories, coatings, adhesives, and more. Some agriculture, aerospace, automotive and medical parts are well suited.
🟢 Furthermore, making of these products would lessen the contribution of “plastics" and PFAS to industrial waste. At end-of life, whether by incineration or landfill, long-term global consequences of product disposal are minimal.
🔆 support for time sensitive key research systemic initiatives
🔆 to mitigate measurable harm and unintended consequences/impact of emissions of greenhouse gases/effluents in water waste streams/oceans.
🔆 to minimize fuel/energy use costs of manufacture and reduce dependence on rare earth mineral ingredients, rebalance the climate ecologies, and more.
🔆 to minimize the refinement/development time meets an urgent NEED, and offers a diverse and plentiful market opportunities. Diverse industries, consumers/customers are asking, ready, waiting and willing to acquire useful and practical, functional upgrades that would help.
🔆 to coordinate highly specialized teams of cross discipline research can bring new products to markets far more effectively and quickly than ever possible or feasible in past.
Rosette Gault inventor, pioneer developer and world expert, was awarded PhD for Innovation in Paperclay Ceramic Arts by the University of Sunderland, UK National Center for Glass and Ceramics. She is the author of four books, some of which have been translated into German and Chinese, as well as numerous articles and publications. Learn more.
A sampling of paperclay success stories from kiln fire trials worldwide. Eco-minded artists discovered advantage with methods like fast fire/fast dry, wet dry assembly, and extreme resistance to thermal shock. A quiet revolution is underway.
Recent in Person Discussion Presentation Oct 7, 2024 at Conference
Research Questions for Eco Friendly Paperclay Meeting: MS&T24: Materials Science & Technology Symposium: 16th Symposium on Green and Sustainable Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and Processing |Session: Sustainable Technologies II |Session Chair(s): Manoj K. Mahapatra; Michael Robert Bonner; Rosette Gault;Date: 10/07/2024 Time: 2:25 PM - 2:45 PM | Location: David L. Lawrence Convention Center - 317 Pittsburgh, PA| in part with American Ceramics Society ACERS. USA
