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A Review Study of Effect of Flyash on Engineering properties of soil Kshitij Verma, 2Abhijeet Mitra, 3Deepak Sagar, 4Mohd. Fayaz, 5Ravi Kumar
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1234UG 5Asst
Student, Department of Civil Engineering, MIT Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, MIT Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract:- This paper investigates the effect of fly ash
generation from more than 40,000 registered industries
(generated from Hirakud Dam, Orissa, India) on geotechnical
according to Controller and Auditor General’s report (CAG-
properties of local soil, Ram Ganga Vihar, Moradabad, INDIA.
2012) and there is no estimate of unregistered hazardous
The fly ash used in the experimental work was of Class ‘C’ and
waste generating industries. This industrial hazardous waste
soil was clayey in nature .Fly ash collected from the
has recyclable, landfill able and incredible components. Thus
Moradabad Institute Of Technology Concerning the major
recycling and reusing of fly ash has become an immediate
challenges regarding the safe reuse, management and disposal
concern in recent years due to increasing in cost current
of these wastes an attempt has been made to mix fly ash at 5,
interest in sustainable development.
10, 15, 20, 25, and 30% on the basis of dry weight with local
Contamination of land may be due to the disposal variety of
clay soil. To understand the behavior of fly ash with soil,
wastes and chemicals on or in the soil. Sources of land
numbers of laboratory experiments were performed on the
contamination could be several. Some contamination sources
local soil (clay) and contaminated soil with varying
are as follows industrial waste, electronic waste, municipal
percentage of fly ash. As the result, on adding
waste.
fly ash the
liquid limit, plasticity index, shrinkage limit, maximum dry
The objectives of the study are:
density decreases but plastic limit first increases then
i. To determine the properties of the local soil collected from
decreases and optimum moisture content increases in increase
the Ram ganga Vihar, Moradabad.
in fly ash content. The objective of this study was to evaluate
ii. To evaluate the performance of the sample when
the effect of fly ash in stabilization of clay soil.
stabilized with fly ash as an admixture and its suitability. iii. To find the Atterberg limit.
Keywords: Flyash, Properties, Improve, Performance, Stabilization.
1.2 LITERATURE REVIEW Many authors have reported the effect of fly ash on
1. INTRODUCTION
soil properties.
Any country's economic & industrial growth depends on the
Bhuvaneshwari and S.R. Gandhi: A study was
availability of power. In India also, coal is a major source of
carried out by S.Bhuvaneshwari and S.R. Gandhi on
fuel for power generation. About 60% power is produced
the effect of engineering properties o expansive soil
using coal as fuel. Indian coal is having low calorific value
through
(3000-3500 Kelvin) & very high ash content (30-45%)
Infrastructure projects such as highways, railways,
resulting in huge quantity of ash is generated in the coal
water reservoirs, reclamation etc. requires earth
based thermal power stations. Fly ash is under the
material in very large quantity. In urban areas,
manufacturing hazardous waste category. Presently in India,
borrow earth is not easily available which has to be
there is reported 7.2 million tone hazardous waste
hauled from a long distance. Quite often, larger
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