Flyash Lightweight Aggregate Making Plant

Brickwell introduces a newly-invented process that converts waste fly ash into lightweight aggregate, a product which can be used to replace the mined stone in concrete, due to stricter controls of Environmental problems as well as other uses. Brickwell’s process uses approximately 95% of fly ash.

Typical Physical Characteristics of LWA Product

• Aggregate Size : 5 – 16 mm
• Bulk Density : 650 – 950 kg/m3
• Particle Density : 1250 – 1450 kg/m3
• Aggregate Strength : >= 5.0 MPa
• Water Absorption : <= 22%

LWA Plant Capacity

Note: The power consumption of normal operation is about 65 – 70% of maximum load.

LWA Properties and Applications

Structural Lightweigh Concrete	Lighter in weight than standard concrete, but just as strong, structural lightweight concrete made with LWA offers significant dead load savings. This allows for long cantilevers, slimmer general sections and reduced foundations sizes, enabling designers to produce structures that would be impossible to build in other materials.
Floor and Roof Screeds	LWA screeds are easily placed in depths from 30mm to over 450mm. They provide an excellent method of making up levels and offer thermal and sound insulation which is especially useful on refurbishment projects. Only half the amount of cement is used than with a sand/cement screed, offering time and cost savings. The density is also approximately half that of sand/cement screeds again reducing structural building costs.
Roof Tiles	Specially crushed and blended grades of LWA allow roof tile manufacturers to maximize strength an density, producing lighter units to reduce costs and dead load.
Land Drainage	Allowing six times more water through its void space than gravel, LWA is an excellent material for drainage, either in slit trenching or in bulk.
Bulk Fill	LWA can be used bonded (with cement) or unbonded (loose) for maximum flexibility. It’s free draining properties allow significant reductions in hydrostatic pressure LWA is low density and requires only limited compaction.
Precast	LWA used in precast panels features strong but light concrete with 25% weight savings over normal concrete – ideal for cladding panels, floor decking, lintels, staircases and other structural units, again with lower structural costs.
Arrestor Beds	LWA does not compact over time, so runaway vehicles will always sink into the bed allowing drag forces to stop them safely and minimal damage. LWA is ideal for roadside runway, race circuit and dockside arrestor beds.
Hortag – a growing medium	Hortag is a special type of LWA which can rapidly absorb up to 15% of its own weight when immersed in water. Water is then released over time to provide a controlled environment.
Filter Media	LWA is an ideal material for use in biological filter systems where a bacterial film has to anchor and develop.
Refractory	LWA has excellent thermal insulation properties and is a class 1 fire resistant aggregate.

Energy-Saving and Environmental Protection

Energy-saving in production process	Natural gas is used for ignition in the process. After the first layer of sintering bed is ignited, the rest of green pellets will be sintered by the self-contained carbon in fly ash with draft air.
Energy-saving products	Fly ash LWA has an excellent thermal insulation property. Concrete made from flyash LWA has a thermal insulation ratio 0.118-0.6w/m.k, 48%-86% better than regular concrete.
Environmental Protection	Fly ash is a by-product of thermal power plant. Most fly ash is currently dumped as waste material, though new government policy, requires that power plants have a means of disposing of the waste. The process can deal with large quantity of fly ash, not only saving agricultural land, but also reducing pollution.
Dust collection system	Dust collectors are used in the process to ensure air exhaust to meet environmental protection.

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