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Industrial processes are activities that produce large amounts of wastes. Often these wastes are disposed in dam or landfills, occupying large areas and causing environmental damage such as the contamination of water and soil. According to the Circular Economy concept, waste should be minimized and reused as raw material in a new process. This work describes two residues, namely red mud (bauxite residue) and waste foundry sand (WFS), whose chemical compositions indicate their suitability for use as protective coatings. These residues were used to obtain coatings on aluminum alloy by employing plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO). The PEO process enables the creation of coatings that are durable, uniform, and strongly adherent on metallic components of different shapes. The mineralogical compositions of the coatings were investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD). Surface wettability was determined by contact angle measurements and evaluation was made of the average surface roughness. Alumina was the main phase observed by XR, indicating good chemical stability and high thermal resistance. The coatings obtained with the red mud were thicker and less rough, compared to those obtained with the WFS. The results demonstrated the feasibility of using these wastes for coating metals in order to improve their properties and enable new applications. Keywords: Industrial Waste, Red Mud, Waste Foundry Sand, Circular Economy, Ceramic Coating.

The results of research of features of modification of aluminosilicate ceramics by suspension of fluoroplastic, aluminophosphate binder (AFS), non-aqueous compositions of polyurethane components, are presented. Samples of aluminosilicate ceramics for research were obtained by technological methods, including batch preparation operations, sample pressing, pre-annealing and sintering at a temperature of 1200–1350 °C. Polydisperse powders of aluminosilicates obtained by grinding waste of porcelain production (porcelain ware, GOST 28390-89); low-melting clay raw materials were selected as initial components. Modification of surface of aluminosilicate materials was carried out by impregnation of aqueous compositions based on a suspension of fluoroplastic and aluminophosphate binder (AFS), non-aqueous compositions of polyurethane components used in the preparation of polyurethane foam and 5 % solution of polyethylene hydrosiloxane in toluene with the formation of composite coatings on the surface of ceramic materials. It is shown that the application of organic film coatings (based on polyurethane, aluminophosphate binder and a suspension of fluoroplastic-4D, polyethylene hydrosiloxane) leads to formation of a multilayer dielectric material in which there are interface surfaces separating areas with different dielectric properties. In the presence of an external electric field, conditions are created for migration polarization between the crystalline phase of the substrate and the amorphous phase of the coating, due to the redistribution of free charges in the volume of the composite. Moreover, the chemical interaction of AFS with ceramics leads to the smoothing of the surface relief of the aluminosilicate base and the overgrowth of deep pores. Composite "aluminosilicate – AFS-fluoroplastic coating" differs from other materials, primarily in that aluminophosphate binder coating chemically reacts with the ceramic base. The impurity ions introduced during coating application, its composite structure, as well as the heterogeneity of the interface determine the pronounced frequency dependence ε and tgδ, as well as large dielectric losses of the composite in comparison with the original aluminosilicate material.