SCIENTISTS AT AMANZHOLOV UNIVERSITY CREATE FUTURE PROTECTIVE MATERIALS FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Kazakhstan will soon have innovative protective coatings using industrial waste.

Gulsym Bektasova, Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Technology at Amanzholov University, and her team are working on the advanced technology.

The project has already received grant funding and its main goal is to use industrial waste as a valuable resource for creating durable and resistant coatings using gas-thermal spraying.

-We need to strengthen the links between science and industry and actively develop environmental research. This project solves two problems at once: environmental and economic. We turn waste into a useful and affordable material for protective coatings,” Gulsym Bektasova explained the relevance of the author’s work.

According to her, the project will work in three areas. In particular, obtaining biocomposite coating using silicon dioxide (SiO₂) isolated from rice husks.

Glass-ceramic coatings created from glass industry waste, silicon carbide (SiC) from the same rice husk and potassium oxide (K₂O) extracted from sunflower husks. As well as unique coatings made from fly ash from coal combustion at thermal power plants. Such materials will be alloyed to improve strength and corrosion resistance.

To date, there is practically no similar research in Kazakhstan. Therefore, this project is not just a scientific interest, but a response to an urgent environmental challenge.

In the near future, Amanzholov University scientists plan international cooperation with young scientists from Universiti Sains Malaysia and Sultan Idris Education University. This partnership will allow to combine experience, resources and knowledge for the most effective implementation of the project.