Studies in the developments of fly ash bricks -- an approach for cleaner environment. Part 2

This work is on the coal ash of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)-Ramagundam super thermal power station (installed capacity 2,100 MW) located in the southern part of India, where many parameters of coal, fly ash and bottom ash, in addition to the many operating parameters are different from earlier at the power station. It was mentioned before that fly ash generated from all coal based thermal power stations has been a nuisance for environment. One of the many avenues for achieving a cleaner environment is the utilization of ash for manufacture of bricks. Thus fly ash and pond ash or lagoon ash, were characterized for their chemical and physical properties. The results of fly ash and pond ash for LOI have been found as 0.45% and 5.57%, the lime content as 4.83% and 4.06%; and lime reactivity 64 and 20 Kg/Cm{sup 2} respectively. Obviously, these characteristics have an important role to play. A brief review of the process technology developed for the manufacture of fly ash bricks is also covered.