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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.About:
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.read more
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Unconfined Compressive Strength of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ashes
Yongfu Xu,Yongfu Xu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a large experimental campaign of unconfined compression tests is presented to describe the UCS characteristics of MSWI bottom ashes, and linear relations between the UCS and initial elastic modulus are presented.
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Effectiveness of industrial waste materials used as ingredients in fly ash brick manufacturing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed flyash bricks as an alternative to the conventional burnt clay bricks avoiding the consumption of clay to ease the stress on an exhaustible resource which also threatens the sustainability of our environment.
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Plastic Waste Recycling, Applications, and Future Prospects for a Sustainable Environment
Ghulamullah Maitlo,Imran Ali,Hubdar Ali Maitlo,Safdar Ali,Imran Nazir Unar,Muhammad Bilal Ahmad,Darya Khan Bhutto,Ramesh Kumar Karmani,S. U. R. Naich,Raja Umer Sajjad,Sikandar Ali,Muhammad Naveed Afridi +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a review article examines the emerging strategies and production of various high-value-added products from plastic waste, and the uses of plastic waste in different sectors, such as construction, fuel production, wastewater treatment, electrode materials, carbonaceous nanomaterials, and other high value added products are reviewed.
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Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Study of Single-Leaf Walls Made with Clay Bricks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the possibility of improving the thermal transmittance of a single-leaf wall made with lightened clay bricks by using additives, reducing the clay's conductivity without decreasing its resistive ability.
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Recent advances in green processing technologies for valorisation of eggshell waste for sustainable construction materials
TL;DR: In this article , the authors focus on the potential uses of eggshell waste as a feedstock for production of sustainable construction materials and present the physical-chemical properties of the eggshell powder which describe its unique characteristics.
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Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art
Peter Duxson,Ana Fernández-Jiménez,John L. Provis,Grant C. Lukey,Ángel Palomo,J.S.J. van Deventer +5 more
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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