• M.Anandhan
• S.Ragavendran

Aluminium is a common raw material used in the manufacturing of various automotive products. The production of automotive products using raw material aluminium generate solid wastes such as slag, scrap, dross etc., The dross are the wastes which are formed in the furnace during the aluminium melting process. The dross waste which are usually dumped as waste can be utilized to manufacture various products. This work is an attempt to explore the ways to utilize the aluminium dross to make a composite material product. Products made of composite material using Glass fiber Reinforced Polymer materials and epoxy resin were tried in this research. Three types of composite plates are prepared and tests were carried out to find the tensile, compressive and impact strengths. The testing’s were performed as per the internationally recognized standards. The plates are made out of aluminium powder coating, dross powder coating and with the combination of both aluminium and dross powder. The plate with dross powder coating provides lower strengths when compared to others. But the plate made using combination of dross with aluminium powder showed improved strengths on comparision.

Aluminium dross, composite material, reuse

"INVESTIGATIONS ON REUSE POSSIBILITY OF ALUMINIUM DROSS IN COMPOSITE PLATE MANUFACTURING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.639-647, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905989.pdf

"INVESTIGATIONS ON REUSE POSSIBILITY OF ALUMINIUM DROSS IN COMPOSITE PLATE MANUFACTURING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp639-647, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905989.pdf