Prospects for the Use of Drilling Sludge from the Oil Fields of the Southern Federal District as Raw Materials for the Production of Ceramic Building Bricks

The construction industry is one of the main leading sectors of the economy in the country. Among them, materials from clay raw materials have been widely used. One of these materials is ceramic building bricks. Due to the depletion of reserves of clay deposits, which is the main material in the raw material mixture for the production of ceramic building materials, further search for solutions necessary for the development of resource-saving technologies is relevant. Another urgent problem today is the disposal of man-made waste. One of the types of such waste is drilling sludge formed during drilling of oil wells. The relevance of the research lies in the need to develop new modern technologies and methods for the production of ceramic building bricks, using drilling sludge from oil fields of the Southern Federal District (SFD) in the raw material composition. This is due to the rapid growth in the volume of non-recyclable drilling waste in the sludge accumulators of oil-producing stations, and the depletion of reserves of natural clay raw materials used in the ceramic industry. The research is aimed at the disposal and reuse of drilling mud, which will create a reserve of affordable competitive raw materials for the production of ceramic bricks.