The medium-sized Spanish university founded in 1994, houses 76 research groups. The University has been very active in several Research & Innovation European Programs (H2020 and previous FPs, LIFE, Justice, ERASMUS+, Interreg, COST, LLP, IEE, Research Fund for Coal and Steel, D. G. for Competition Policy and Strategy, Science for Peace and Security Programme-OTAN…) with over 50 European projects; with the role of coordinator in 22 projects and over 8.4 M€ overall EU funding received. Currently, this University participates in 26 on-going projects (in 12 of them as coordinator) in 8 different EU programs with an average of 1.7 M€ of EU funding in the last 4 years.
The proposed patented solution allows obtaining of a densified material with improved properties compared to conventional mixtures (for example, optimizing some of the basic properties) and with a good behavior in the performance regime in relation resistance and reaction to fire.
It is an ecoprefabricated gypsum board with high fire resistance, the board being made up of a gypsum core including iron and steel residues from the steel industry, said residues essentially composed of CaO, SiO2, Al2O3 and MgO.
The potential applications are:
- Companies in the construction sector.
- Companies in the cultural heritage sector.
- Use in mass coatings as materials with high resistance and reaction to fire.
- Prefabricated for use in buildings partitions and industrial with protection against fire requirements.
The researcher group is interested in international cooperation under manufacturing and/or license agreement, with other research organization, academia and/or industry.
In addition, the research group offers tests of new applications and/or adaptation to specific needs and the possibility of further development.
Advantages & innovations The main innovations and advantages of this new fire resistant plaster based material are: • Improvement of the non-combustibility properties of conventional plasters. • Increase in applications of gypsum-based materials in special atmospheres. • Reuse of iron and steel industry materials waste.IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN KNOWING MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT PLEASE REGISTER AS FREE MEMBER OR LOGIN IF ALREADY REGISTERED