A Study on the Reliability of Mass, Density, and Fire Performance of Recycled Wastepaper Building Finishing Material Made with Large Wet Cellulose 3D Printers

Chansol Ahn, Dongin Park, Jeo Hwang and Dongho Rie ()
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Chansol Ahn: Department of Fire Safety Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Goyang 18544, Korea
Dongin Park: Graduate School of Safety Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea
Jeo Hwang: Graduate School of Safety Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea
Dongho Rie: Fire Disaster Prevention Research Center, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-14

Abstract: The impact of non-face-to-face contact following the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a social problem and has increased the amount of wastepaper, mainly in home delivery boxes. The appropriate recycling of paper waste is an area where sustainable growth is required in terms of the net environment system and carbon neutrality practice. Therefore, in this study, a specimen of building finishing material using wastepaper was produced using a custom-made large wet cellulose (LWC) 3D printer, and the site applicability of the fire performance was evaluated. The specimen of the building finish material was a mixture of wastepaper and ceramic binder, and the molding of the specimen was uniformly produced by a cylinder injection-type LWC 3D printer. The production reliability of the 3D printer was analyzed by measuring the mass and density of the specimen. The uniformity of the mass and density of the manufactured building finishes were confirmed to have standard deviations of ±0.05 g and ±0.01 g/cm 3 , respectively. The uniformity of the fire performance of specimens was confirmed by checking the relative standard deviation (RSD) value of ±3% under the same ceramic addition conditions from ISO 5660-1. Through the mass and density analysis and fire performance analysis of the building finishing materials, it was confirmed that the same mass, density, and fire performance can be produced simultaneously, and manufacturing using LWC 3D printers has been confirmed to be effective in developing uniform semi-non-combustible and retardant building materials.

Keywords: cellulose; 3D printer; flame retardancy; ISO 5660-1; building finishing material (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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