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Flyash as a Resource Material in Construction Industry: A Clean Approach to Environment Management

In: Sustainable Construction and Building Materials

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  • Mohammad Akhtar
  • Nazia Tarannum

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The maximum amount of electricity is produced by most of the thermal power plants by burning coal at their operating facilities. Due to this activity, various types of secondary materials are generated. Any material resulting from coal-combustion processes may be called as a coal-combustion product (CCP). Among different CCPs reported worldwide by coal-burning power plants, flyash is the most common one. As per the characterization report, flyash is considered as a powdery material being collected by dust collectors installed in the thermal power plants with the use of coal as fuel. There are different problems related to flyash like requirement of large area of land for disposal and toxicity caused by flyash which leach to groundwater. The study has established flyash as air and water pollution source. It is considered as waste that may act as a resource material in construction industry, thereby acting as a resource for waste and environment management. Till a decade back, flyash was treated as waste material worldwide, but now it is developed as an environment savior.

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  • Mohammad Akhtar & Nazia Tarannum, 2019. "Flyash as a Resource Material in Construction Industry: A Clean Approach to Environment Management," Chapters, in: Sayed Hemeda (ed.), Sustainable Construction and Building Materials, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:164940
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.82078
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    Keywords

    thermal power plants; coal-combustion product; flyash; waste material;
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    • L70 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction - - - General

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