Foam Glass Development Using Glass Cullet and Fly Ash or Rice Husk Ash as the Raw Materials

2014 ◽  
Vol 608 ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parinya Chakartnarodom ◽  
Pitcharat Ineure

The aim of this work is to study the recycling of glass cullet (waste glass), fly ash, and rice husk ash as the foam glass, a porous construction material having high compressive strength but low density, which are similar to the light weight brick. The foam glasses were prepared by mixing the ground glass cullet/ash mixtures with calcium carbonate (foaming agent) at 1 wt% and sodium silicate solution (binder) at 10 wt%, and then compacted into the rectangle shapes (30 cm × 30 cm × 7cm) which were fired at 650 °C for 30 min, and then for 1 hour at 750, 800, 850, or 900 °C. The sources of glass cullet were art glass factory and glass window industry. The percentages of ash in the ground glass cullet/ash (fly ash or rice husk ash) mixtures were 20, 40, and 60 wt%. The results showed that the foam glass that was made from 80wt% window glass/ 20wt% fly ash and fired at 750 °C had the most suitable properties for being produced commercially because it had good alkaline resistant, and the compressive strength and degree of water absorption better than the light weight brick (G2-type and G4-type autoclaved aerated concrete) while the density was similar to G2-type but lower than G4-type. The compressive strength, density, and degree of water absorption of this foam glass were 59.9 kg/cm2, 421 kg/m3, and 2.1 % respectively. Furthermore, as of September 2013, the total production cost (materials, labor, energy, etc.) of this foam glass is about 16 baht per piece (20 cm × 60 cm × 7.5 cm) which is 12.5 to 43.75% lower than the wholesale price of a light weight brick (18-23 baht per piece for G2-type and G4-type autoclaved aerated concrete).

2015 ◽  
Vol 752-753 ◽  
pp. 588-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Lung Hwang ◽  
Trong Phuoc Huynh

This paper reports on the potential use of fly ash (FA) and residual rice husk ash (RHA) in producing unfired building bricks (UBB) with the application of densified mixture design algorithm (DMDA) method. In this study, little amount of cement (10–15%) was added into the mixtures as binder substitution. Whereas, unground rice husk ash (URHA), an agricultural by-product, was used as partial aggregate replacement (10–20%) in the mixtures. The UBB of 220×105×60 mm in size were prepared and the hardened properties of the bricks were tested including compressive strength, flexural strength, water absorption and bulk density according to Vietnamese standard. Forming pressure of 35 MPa was applied to form the solid bricks in the mold. The test results show that all brick specimens achieved very good mechanical properties. The compressive strength, flexural strength and water absorption of brick specimens were respectively in range of 16.1–22.1 MPa, 2.8–3.5 MPa and 9.5–14.8% and the other properties of the bricks were well conformed to related Vietnamese standard. It was definitely proved many potential applications of FA and RHA in the production of UBB.


2016 ◽  
Vol 718 ◽  
pp. 169-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Korb Srinavin ◽  
Patipat Tunming

Thailand is located in a tropical region, with high intensity of sunlight, high temperature and humidity. Thus, preventing heat transfer into the building is required in order to save electrical energy for air-conditioning systems. This study aims to investigate the physical and thermal properties of construction bricks in order to increase their effectiveness of heat prevention. An attempt is made to increase discontinuous voids in fired clay bricks. Rice Husk Ash (RHA; 0-30 % by weight) and Fly Ash (FA; 0-30 % by weight) were added in brick mixture to increase those voids. Compressive strength and water absorption of bricks were tested. The testing results showed that compressive strength decreased and water absorption increased when RHA and FA were added. The thermal conductivity coefficient of bricks were also investigated. The results confirmed that the higher amount of RHA added, the higher thermal resistance of bricks. Similar results were found for FA. Increasing an amount of FA also increased thermal resistance of bricks. Thermal time-lag behavior was also tested. The results showed that RHA hollow bricks took the longest time in heating and took the shortest time in cooling. These properties are good for heat prevention. These bricks which were developed and tested in this research are conformed to the Thai Industrial Standard. Finally, it can be concluded that because of its thermal behavior, RHA hollow brick is a suitable energy-saving brick for hot and humid climates.


2015 ◽  
Vol 804 ◽  
pp. 129-132
Author(s):  
Sumrerng Rukzon ◽  
Prinya Chindaprasirt

This research studies the potential for using waste ash from industrial and agricultural by-products as a pozzolanic material. Classified fly ash (FA) and ground rice husk ash (RA) were the materials used. Water requirement, compressive strength and porosity of cement mortar were investigated. Test results indicated that FA and RA (waste ash) have a high potential to be used as a good pozzolanic material. The water requirement of mortar mix decreases with the increases in fly ash content. For ground rice husk ash (RA), the water requirement of mortar mix increases with the increases in rice husk ash content. In addition, the reduction in porosity was associated with the increase in compressive strength.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Karim ◽  
M. F. M. Zain ◽  
M. Jamil ◽  
F. C. Lai

The increasing demand and consumption of cement have necessitated the use of slag, fly ash, rice husk ash (RHA), and so forth as a supplement of cement in concrete construction. The aim of the study is to develop a zero-cement binder (Z-Cem) using slag, fly ash, and RHA combined with chemical activator. NaOH, Ca(OH)2, and KOH were used in varying weights and molar concentrations. Z-Cem was tested for its consistency, setting time, flow, compressive strength, XRD, SEM, and FTIR. The consistency and setting time of the Z-Cem paste increase with increasing RHA content. The Z-Cem mortar requires more superplasticizer to maintain a constant flow of110±5% compared with OPC. The compressive strength of the Z-Cem mortar is significantly influenced by the amounts, types, and molar concentration of the activators. The Z-Cem mortar achieves a compressive strength of 42–44 MPa at 28 days with 5% NaOH or at 2.5 molar concentrations. The FTIR results reveal that molecules in the Z-Cem mortar have a silica-hydrate (Si-H) bond with sodium or other inorganic metals (i.e., sodium/calcium-silica-hydrate-alumina gel). Therefore, Z-Cem could be developed using the aforementioned materials with the chemical activator.


2019 ◽  
Vol 798 ◽  
pp. 364-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khemmakorn Gomonsirisuk ◽  
Parjaree Thavorniti

The aim of this work is to study the feasibility of preparation of fly ash based geopolymer using sodium water glass from agricultural waste as alternative activators. Rice husk ash and bagasse ash were used as raw materials for producing sodium water glass solution. The sodium water glass were produced by mixing rice husk ash and bagasse ash with NaOH in ball mill and boiling. The prepared sodium water glass were analyzed and used in geopolymer preparation process. The geopolymer paste were prepared by adding the obtained water glass and NaOH with fly ash. After cured at ambient temperature for 7 days, mechanical properties were investigated. Bonding and phases of the geopolymer were also characterized. The geopolymer from rice husk ash presented highest compressive strength about 23 MPa while the greatest for bagasse ash was about 16 MPa.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Liu ◽  
Chunyan Xie ◽  
Chao Fu ◽  
Xiuli Wei ◽  
Dake Wu

When properly processed, rice husk ash (RHA) comprises a large amount of SiO2, which exhibits a high pozzolanic activity and acts as a good building filler. In this paper, the effects of rice husk ash content, acid pretreatment, and production regions on the compressive and flexural properties and water absorption of a cement paste were studied. The experimental results showed that the compressive strength of the rice husk ash was the highest with a 10% content level, which was about 16.22% higher than that of the control sample. The rice husk after acid pretreatment displayed a higher strength than that of the sample without the acid treatment, and the rice husk from the Inner Mongolia region indicated a higher strength than that from the Guangdong province. However, the flexural strength of each group was not significantly different from that of the blank control group. The trend observed for the water absorption was similar to that of the compressive strength. The variation in the RHA proportions had the greatest influence on the properties of the paste specimens, followed by the acid pretreatments of the rice husks. The production regions of the rice husks indicated the least influence.


2018 ◽  
Vol 766 ◽  
pp. 305-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chayanee Tippayasam ◽  
Sarochapat Sutikulsombat ◽  
Jamjuree Paramee ◽  
Cristina Leonelli ◽  
Duangrudee Chaysuwan

Geopolymer is a greener alternative cement produced from the reaction of pozzolans and strong alkali solutions. Generally, the cement industry is one of largest producers of CO2that caused global warming. For geopolymer mortar usage, Portland cement is not utilized at all. In this research, geopolymer mortars were prepared by mixing metakaolin, various wastes (fly ash, bagasse ash and rice husk ash) varied as 80:20, 50:50 and 20:80, 15M NaOH, Na2SiO3and sand. The influence of various parameters such as metakaolin to ashes ratios and pozzolans to alkali ratios on engineering properties of metakaolin blended wastes geopolymer mortar were studied. Compressive strength tests were carried out on 25 x 25 x 25 mm3cube geopolymer mortar specimens at 7, 14, 21, 28 and 91 air curing days. Physical and chemical properties were also investigated at the same times. The test results revealed that the highest compressive strength was 20% metakaolin - 80% fly ash geopolymer mortar. When the curing times increases, the compressive strength of geopolymer mortar also increases. The mixing of metakaolin and bagasse ash/rice husk ash presented lower compressive strength but higher water absorption and porosity. For FTIR results, Si-O, Al-O and Si-O-Na+were found. Moreover, the geopolymer mortar could easily plastered on the wall.


2015 ◽  
Vol 754-755 ◽  
pp. 468-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Lung Hwang ◽  
Trong Phuoc Huynh

This work investigates the possibility of using fly ash (FA) and Vietnam residual rice husk ash (RHA) in producing unfired building bricks with applying densified mixture design algorithm (DMDA) method. In this research, little amount of cement was added into the mixtures as binder substitution. Unground rice husk ash (URHA), an agricultural by-product, was used as partial fine aggregate replacement (10% and 30%) in the mixtures. The solid bricks of 220×105×60 mm in size were prepared in this study. The hardened properties of the bricks were investigated including compressive strength, flexural strength and water absorption according to corresponding Vietnamese standards. Forming pressure of 35 MPa was applied to form the solid bricks in the mold. The test results show that all brick specimens obtained good mechanical properties, which were well conformed to Vietnamese standard. Compressive strength and flexural strength of the bricks were respectively in range of 13.81–22.06 MPa and 2.25–3.47 MPa. It was definitely proved many potential applications of FA and RHA in the production of unfired building bricks.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Sultana ◽  
M.I. Hossain ◽  
M.A. Rahman ◽  
M.H. Khan

Effects of rice husk ash and fly ash on properties of red clay collected from Naogaon district of Bangladesh were investigated. Different percentages of rice husk ash (RHA) and fly ash (5%, 10% and 15%) were thoroughly mixed with clay to analyse various physical and chemical properties of clay followed by heat treatment of 8000C to 11000C. The samples were tested for compressive strength, linear shrinkage, water absorption, porosity and bulk density. XRD analysis indicates the clay sample was mainly illite type. Water absorption and porosity increased with increasing percentage of ashes. The percentage of water absorption was within 6 to 10% for different mixture which may be suitable for ceramic and tiles purposes. Both fly ash and RHA of 15% could be used to improve some properties of clay. The optimum firing temperature for all the samples was 10500C. XRD pattern of clay with fly ash and rice husk ash heated at 10500C confirms the presence of feldspar and quartz as major phase and hematite (Fe2O3) and cristobalite phase as minor phase. This red clay deposits reinforced with different appropriate quantities of rice husk ash and fly ash could be used for various low temperature applications in industry and construction purposes. © 2014 JSR Publications. ISSN: 2070-0237 (Print); 2070-0245 (Online). All rights reserved. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jsr.v6i3.15343 J. Sci. Res. 6 (3), 421-430 (2014)


2017 ◽  
Vol 751 ◽  
pp. 538-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pongsak Jittabut

This research was aimed to a present the physical and thermal properties of geopolymer pastes made of fly ash (FA) and bagasse ash (BA) with rice husk ash (RHA) containing at the doses of 0%, 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% and 10% by weight. The sodium hydroxide concentration of 15 molars, sodium silicate per sodium hydroxide by weight ratio of 2.0, the alkaline liquid per binder at the ratio of 0.60 and curing at ambient temperature were used at the to mix all mixtures to gether for 7 and 28 days. The properties analysis of the geopolymer pastes such as compressive strength, bulk density, water absorption, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and thermal capacity were tested. The results were indicated that geopolymer pastes that containing rice husk ash 2% by weight for 28 days of curing gave the maximum compressive strength of 84.42 kg/cm2, low water absorption of 1.16 %, low bulk density of 2,065.71 kg/cm3, lower thermal conductivity of 1.1173 W/m.K, lower thermal diffusion of 6.643 µm2/s and lower thermal capacity of 1.6819 MJ/m3K, respectively. The utilization of waste from agriculture industry via geopolymer pastes for green building materials can be achieved. For this research, physical properties and thermal insulation of geopolymer pastes were siqnificantly improved.


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