Use of waste marble powder in brick industry

2011

Marble and granite industry has grown significantly in the last decades with the privatization trend in the early 1990s, and the flourishing construction industry in Egypt. Accordingly, the amount of mining and processing waste has increased. Stone waste is generally a highly polluting waste due to both its highly alkaline nature, and its manufacturing and processing techniques, which impose a health threat to the surroundings. Shaq Al-Thuban industrial cluster, the largest marble and granite industrial cluster in Egypt is imposing an alarming threat to the surrounding communities, Zahraa El-Maadi residential area, and the ecology of the neighboring Wadi Degla protectorate. The objective of this paper is to utilize marble and granite waste of different sizes in the manufacturing of concrete bricks, with full replacement of conventional coarse and fine aggregates with marble waste scrapes and slurry powder of content up to 40%. The produced bricks are tested for physical and mechanic...

Annales de Chimie - Science des Matériaux, 2021

Recycling and recovery of waste are now considered as a solution for the future to protect the environment. The marble processing workshops on the other hand, generate a large amount of waste in the form of powder and small parts. Due to these facts, the aim of this study is to valorize marble waste in the form of powder and crushed aggregates (sand) as additions in cementitious matrix building materials. The characterization of the materials used to formulate mortars based on natural dune sand with marble powder and mortars based on mixed sand (dunes sand and crushed sand) and marble powder was measure. In this sense, several series have been studied, varying the addition rate of the marble powder in order to reduce the porosity of the cement matrix, using crushed marble sand to increase the granular cohesion and using of a reducing water admixture (MEDAPLAST SP40) for more performance mortars. Very appreciable results were observed for a dosage of 15% of marble powder and for the ...

GJESRM, 2018

Concrete is the most critical factor used within the creation industry throughout the world ,wherein the first-rate aggregates is typically natural sand[1] .Due to rapid growing demand has production enterprise . Marble powder is made out of processing plant at some point of the cutting and polishing of marble blocks and approximately 20- 25 % of the processed marble is get into powder shape. Decomposing of marble is one of the major problem in environment. The use of marble in concrete formulation as a supplementary sand material was tested as an alternative to traditional concrete. The sand has been replaced by marble accordingly in the range of 10%, 20%, and 30% by the weight of cement for M-25. These tests were carried out to evaluate the mechanical properties for the tests results for compressive strength up to 28 days.

Acta Physica Polonica A, 2010

The objective of this work is to characterize and evaluate the effect of incorporation of granite and marble rejects on the properties and microstructure development of three different clay materials used to fabricate brick materials in the brick industry. The raw materials are characterized with respect to their chemical composition by X-ray fluorescence, particle size distribution and mineralogical composition by X-ray diffraction and plasticity. Compositions have been prepared with additions of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 wt% reject in three different clay material from Tamilnadu State, India, and fired at temperatures from 500 to 900 • C in laboratory furnace. The behaviour of mixtures containing 80 wt% clay material +20 wt% reject is discussed in detail. The technological properties of briquette specimens such as flexural rupture strength, water absorption, porosity and bulk density were determined. The microstructure of the fired briquette specimens were observed by scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, Mössbauer spectroscopy. The results of the above studies show that incorporations of granite and marble rejects up to 50 wt% is potential to the industrial clay brick products, with no major sacrifice on the properties of the final product, anticipating no costly modifications in the industrial production line.

IRJET, 2022

Marble dust powder is a waste that causes environmental troubles because millions of tonnes of marble dust powder are generated per year. The aims of this paper are to utilize the marble dust powder by replacing cement with marble dust powder. This helps in sustainable construction and also protects the environment. Marble dust powder is generated from lime stone mines, Glass and Paper industries etc. In this experiment, marble dust was used as an admixture in concrete, It contributed to better strength as compare to normal concrete (by replacing cement with marble dust powder in a limited amount). In this experimental study, preparation of concrete cube is done by replacing cement with marble dust powder at various percentages (0% ,5%, 10%, 20%, 30% & 40%) and study of the workability and compressive strength of concrete. It is done after seven days and twenty-eight days.

International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education IJARIIE-ISSN (O)-2395-4396, 2016

The most basic building material for construction of houses is the conventional brick. The rapid growth in today's construction industry has obliged the civil engineers in searching for more efficient and durable alternatives far beyond the limitations of the conventional brick production. By incorporatin g Granite powder in Marble brick, compressive strength can be improved. Reduces the construction cost, maintenance cost. Also reduce the temperature up to 4 0 C. Since marble and Granite consist of silica and lime, availability of silica in granite is more. The strength of Granite powder brick is relatively more as compare to marble powder brick. The Marble powder has been replaced by Granite powder accordingly in the range of 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% by weight. The waste generated from the industries cause environmental problems. Hence the reuse of this waste material can be emphasized. To produce low cost brick, to reduce disposal and pollution problems due to the use of waste.

International Journal of Current Trends in Engineering & Research (IJCTER) e-ISSN 2455–1392 , 2016

The most basic building material for construction of houses is the conventional brick. The rapid growth in today's construction industry has obliged the civil engineers in searching for more efficient and durable alternatives far beyond the limitations of the conventional brick production. By incorporating Kota stone powder in Marble brick, compressive strength can be improved. Reduces the construction cost, maintenance cost. Also reduce the temperature up to 4 0 C. Since marble and Kota stone consist of silica and lime, the strength of Kota stone powder brick is relatively more as compare to marble powder brick. The Marble powder has been replaced by Kota stone powder accordingly in the range of 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% by weight. The waste generated from the industries cause environmental problems. Hence the reuse of this waste material can be emphasized. To produce low cost brick, to reduce disposal and pollution problems due to the use of waste.

2014

Brick kilns producing clay bricks are located in or around the urban areas of Pakistan, causing community health hazard. This study investigated the use of industrial waste such as marble dust (MD) and steel slag (SS) to produce unfired, environmental friendly bricks. Various mixtures containing gypsum, lime and MD or SS were prepared, in different ratios in the laboratory. The setting time, compressive strength, water absorption and saturation coefficient of research bricks were determined. These bricks attained compressive strength superior to conventional burnt clay bricks in less than 7 days. However, water absorption of all the research bricks exceeded the permissible limits set by Indian and American standards. In conclusion, use of MD and SS as clay substitute is promising for making environment friendly, low cost bricks having sufficient strength for use in construction industry. Further testing of brick mixtures and water absorption properties is required before commercial ...

2020

Almost all around the world production of waste such as glass is increasing very rapidly because it is not being properly collected and recycled thus leaving a very harmful impression on our environment. Also the use of bricks as a major construction material and large amount of production all over the world causes depletion of clay resources and contribute to environmental hazards. Many researchers have used different types of waste in bricks to reduce the energy problem associated to the environment. Mostly the waste having pozzolanic properties and its positive effect on brick properties has been used by many researchers as a partial replacement with clay in bricks. In this research efforts are being made to collect the discarded waste glass, converted it into powder form of grain size 37um and replaced clay with it to minimize the pollution problem and step toward green environment. Bricks earth are prepared by replacing clay with waste glass powder (WGP) by volume at different percentage such as 5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%. The brick earth is then molded in a standard size mold, sundried and burnt in a kiln to determine compressive strength, modulus of rupture, water absorption and weight of the bricks. Upon testing it has been determined that up to 40% utilization of waste glass powder (WGP) in bricks at routine kiln temperature could develop extra mechanical properties in bricks.