Published in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hundreds of studies have been written in the last several decades on the advantages of using stone powder as a raw material in the production of fired clay bricks. The durability and long-term behavior of the finished product, however, have received very little attention in the literature. Clay bricks are generally fired at high temperatures in dev...
Published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Plastic brick is one of the innovative types of brick which is made up of plastic waste. Plastic bricks reduce pollution problem from garbage plastic. Since plastic bricks don’t require brick kilns, it’s possible to stop the pollution caused by these bricks and create them easily. So, to create a balance between environmental protection and polluti...
Published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Agricultural topsoil is the most common raw material for making clay bricks in Bangladesh because of its abundance and prehistoric tradition. This practice of the bygone age is steadily pushing the environment toward the risk of fertile soil depletion. At the same time, the largest delta of this world gathers tons of sediment during the monsoon whi...
Published in Journal of Building Material Science
An evaluation of the effects of additives and firing temperatures on clay bricks characteristics was studied. The two (2) additives used were sawdust ash (SDA) and iron ore tailing wastes (IOTW), and the five (5) firing temperatures of 400o C to 1200o C at intervals of 200o C were applied. The fired bricks were tested for linear shrinkage, water ab...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
Construction and mining industries around the globe have been criticized for production of enormous solid wastes that have potential environmental impacts. Therefore, this study presents a feasible approach to recover and utilize granite micronized stones waste for production of eco-friendly bricks. This research work, aimed at substituting a natur...
Published in Journal of Engineering and Applied Science
This study investigates the effect of using steel filings from the waste of blacksmiths workshops on the clay bricks mixture to improve the bricks’ compressive strength. On the other hand, this process can reduce workshops’ waste by recycling it to preserve the resources and achieve sustainability. Adding steel filings to the mixture of red clay br...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
AbstractNumerous studies have been conducted about the removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions using lignocellulosic materials, which are capable of adsorbing various contaminants present even at low concentrations. Rice husk constitutes biomass waste that has found multiple applications in different fields, such as the removal of heavy ...
Published in Journal of hazardous materials
This article describes the adsorption of zinc ions from synthetic solutions using residual pine sawdust as an adsorbent and, subsequently, the use of clay ceramic pieces and contaminated biomass as metal immobilizers. The process of adsorption was carried out with a synthetic solution of ZnCl2 in contact with sawdust for a fixed time of 24 h. The m...
Published in Waste and Biomass Valorization
In this study RHA was used as silica source in the obtainment of clay bricks. Different compositions were prepared, substituting the clays with diverse percentages of RHA (0–20 wt%) and requested water contents. The pastes obtained were extruded in laboratory, dried and then fired in an industrial camera kiln. Technological tests were performed aft...
Published in Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
In the present study, four fired clay bricks recipes with addition of recycled waste ceramics resulted from building demolition and waste paper pulp as pore-forming agent in different proportions are investigated. The purpose of the work is to analyse the impact of pore-forming agent and wastes on the physical, mechanical and thermal properties of ...
