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Production of bricks from waste materials – A review

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A state-of-the-art review of research on utilization of waste materials to produce bricks can be found in this article, which can be divided into three general categories based on the methods for producing bricks from waste materials: firing, cementing and geopolymerization.
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This article is published in Construction and Building Materials.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 551 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Building material & Kiln.

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Waste strategies for managing excessive sludge in water resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed waste strategies for managing excessive lake sludge and proposed as the optimal waste strategy, recycling the sludge as raw material in the local brick manufacturing facility.
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3D simulation of industrial large-scale ceramics furnace in SIMIO platform environment

TL;DR: This article presents a 3D simulation of an industrial large-scale furnace operating in the NGC (Northern Greece Ceramics) ceramics industrial plant based on the SIMIO software platform, the capabilities of which are explored and tested in such a complex production plant.

The Study on Sugarcane Bagasse Fibres as Partial Aggregate Replacement in Lightweight Concrete Brick

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of sugarcane bagasse fiber as partial aggregate replacement in lightweight concrete bricks was investigated. But, the results showed that 0.5% was the highest percentage of optimum strength with 2.5MPa than the others.
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Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art

TL;DR: A brief history and review of geopolymer technology is presented with the aim of introducing the technology and the vast categories of materials that may be synthesized by alkali activation of aluminosilicates as mentioned in this paper.
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Geopolymers : inorganic polymeric new materials

TL;DR: In the last few years, technological progress has been made in the development of new materials such as "geopolymers" and new techniques, such as ''sol-gel'' as mentioned in this paper, opening up new applications and procedures and transforming ideas that have been taken for granted in inorganic chemistry.
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Alkali-activated fly ashes: A cement for the future

TL;DR: In this paper, the mechanism of activation of fly ash with highly alkaline solutions is described, and the product of the reaction is an amorphous aluminosilicate gel having a structure similar to that of zeolitic precursors.
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Alkali-Activated Cements and Concretes

TL;DR: Alkali-Activated Cement and Concrete as discussed by the authors is a type of Cementitious Systems that uses Alkaline Activators to activate slag cements and lime-pozzolan cements.
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An environmental evaluation of geopolymer based concrete production: reviewing current research trends

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a detailed environmental evaluation of geopolymer concrete production using the Life Cycle Assessment methodology and found that the production of most standard types of OPC concrete has a slightly lower impact on global warming than standard Ordinary Portland Cement.
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