Soil based brick mixed with lime mud - an industrial waste of paper mill

摘要

The purpose of the present invention i.e. manufacture of brick from waste material of paper manufacturing industry and locally available soil. This invention will help to reduce the disposal problem, environmental effects of this waste and manufacture a new building material. The materials used for brick making in this study are lime mud, the waste of paper industry, and soil. The materials were characterized with respect to its chemical and geotechnical properties. Then the experiments were conducted on hand moulded burnt bricks of above mix in various proportions to determine the optimum mix. All the bricks were first dried in the natural condition and then putted the dry bricks in kiln for burning. After burning, all bricks are tested to determine the compressive strength.