Effect of Chicken Bone as Foaming Agent on the Structural and Mechanical Properties of Glass Foam

Amber glass is widely used to pack a large number of industrial products. However, its waste is disposed of into landfills, which results in serious environmental concerns, and only a small amount of it is either reused or recycled. Recycling the glass offers reduction in the landfills and hence minimizes the adverse environmental impact. This study follows the concept of recycling amber glass to produce glass foam that possesses high strength. The hard glass foam is produced by sintering pulverized pharmaceutical amber glass and chicken bones at 860˚C and 10 min. Chicken bones were used for the first time as a recycling material for producing glass foam. In this work different characterization techniques were used to investigate the mechanical and structural properties of the produced glass foam. The glass foam produced resulted into high values of flexural strength ranging from 15.90 ± 2.34 to 28.31 ± 1.62 MPa. The prepared glass foam, due to its unique properties such as high strength, sound absorption, heat insulation and shock-wave absorption, offers valuable insights into the world of material science.