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New technology and application of brick making with coal fly ash

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China has ranked first in the coal fly ash emission in the world. The multipurpose use of the fly ash from power plant waste is always an important topic for the Chinese environmental protection, which has drawn the concern of the government, scientific research departments, manufacturing enterprises and industry experts. This paper introduces an experimental research on how to recycle fly ash effectively, a kind of new technology of making bricks by which fly ash content could be amounted to 50–80 %. The article introduces raw materials of fly ash brick, production process and key control points. It introduces how to change the technical parameters of the existing brick-making mechanical device, optimize the parameters combination and improve the device performance. High-content fly ash bricks are manufactured, which selects wet fly ash from power plants, adding aggregate with reasonable ratio and additives with reasonable dosage, and do the experimental research on manufactured products for properties, production technology and selection about technology parameters of production equipment. All indexes of strength grade, freezing-thawing resisting, and other standards of the studied bricks reached the national standards for building materials industry.

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  1. University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, 114051, China

    Ling Wang

  2. University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100086, China

    He Sun & Zhihui Sun

  3. CEC Environmental Protection Science and Technology Development Liaoning Co., Ltd., Nanjing, 114002, China

    Enqing Ma

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Wang, L., Sun, H., Sun, Z. et al. New technology and application of brick making with coal fly ash. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 18, 763–770 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-015-0368-9

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