AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-2014-11_2_12
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Preparation of Water Absorbing Pavement Material from Fly Ash

B.B. Kar1* S.K. Dash1
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1 School of Applied Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
AJWEP 2014, 11(2), 99–101; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-2014-11_2_12
Submitted: 13 March 2013 | Accepted: 27 June 2013 | Published: 1 January 2014
© 2014 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Fly ash generated from thermal power plants are considered to be a major environmental pollutant due to the toxic material. As per the recent development, fly ash presently is getting dumped as a waste. Being highly fine in nature, it has got high contribution in air pollution and water pollution. Many attempts have been made to utilize fly ash in various aspects such as mine filling, preparation of bricks, different concretes, textiles and many other applications. In concrete most of the research are concentrating on preparation of high tensile strength concrete which can’t absorb water into it. In the present study, an attempt has been made to prepare a pavement composite which can absorb water. It has been found that utilization of such a composite material for the purpose of pavement preparation will help for groundwater recharging.

Keywords
Fly-ash
pavement
absorption study
water pollution
concrete
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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