TY - JOUR N2 - The results of investigations of the granulation process of foundry dusts generated in the dry mechanical reclamation process of used sands, where furan resins were binders are presented in the paper. Investigations concerned producing of granules of the determined dimensions and strength parameters. Granules were formed from the dusts mixture consisting in 50 mass% of dusts obtained after the reclamation of the furane sands and in 50 mass % of dusts from sands with bentonite. Dusts from the bentonite sands with water were used as a binder allowing the granulation of after reclamation dusts from the furane sands. The following parameters of the ready final product were determined: moisture content (W), shatter test of granules (Wz) performed directly after the granulation process and after 1, 3, 5, 10 days and nights of seasoning, water-resistance of granules after 24 hours of being immersed in water, surface porosity ep and volumetric porosity ev. In addition the shatter test and water-resistance of granulate dried at a temperature of 105oC were determined. Investigations were performed at the bowl angle of inclination 45o, for three rotational speeds of the bowl being: 10, 15, 20 rpm. For the speed of 10 rpm the granulation tests of dusts mixture after the preliminary mixing in the roller mixer and with the addition of water-glass in the amount of 2% in relation to the amount of dust were carried out. The obtained results indicate that the granulator allows to obtain granules from dusts originated from the reclamations of moulding sands with the furane resin with an addition of dusts from the bentonite sands processing plants. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/86937/PDF/10_paper.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/86937 PY - 2012 IS - No 3 DO - 10.2478/v10266-012-0081-2 KW - Moulding sands KW - After reclamation dust KW - Granulation KW - Environment protection A1 - Dańko, J. A1 - Kamińska, J. PB - The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences DA - 2012 T1 - Preliminary Research on Granulation Process of Dust Waste from Reclamation Process of Moulding Sands with Furan Resin UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/86937 T2 - Archives of Foundry Engineering ER -