Environmental Impact of Fly Ash Brick in Comparison with Traditional Brick

Abstract

The conventional burnt clay bricks are usually employed for constructional purposes. However, there is another type of bricks called fly ash bricks that can also be broadly employed in all such works. When compared on the basis of weight and substantiality, this variety of brick is relatively better than the conventional bricks. Its application as chief crude material in the brick manufacturing will formulate adequate possibilities for its strait-laced and beneficial disposal and additionally support in environmental deterioration check to a vaster scope in the neighbouring regions of power manufactories as fly ash is being stockpiled as a rubbish element in great abundance around such power manufactories and producing severe environmental deterioration predicaments. The severe predicaments posed by brick manufacturers inflate unwanted outcomes such as soil erosion, deforestation, unwanted gas exhaustion, etc. As per statistics, 5000 acres of the uppermost cover of soil which formulate around 340 billion tones of clay is emptied out for bricks production, and annually we are able to employ 180 billion tonnes of conventional bricks. Therefore, such environmental predicaments can be subdued to a certain degree if fly ash bricks are employed for constructional purposes in place of conventional bricks and a lot of top covers can be conserved. This study aimed to interpret knowledge concerning about fly ash as a raw material in brick manufacturing and thereby establish and characterize its performances in an usual economical manner.