PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT BY SLUDGE ASH IN CONCRETE
Amey Bedmutha, Shrey Mange & Ashish Goklani
Abstract:
Sewage sludge is the by product of waste water
treatment plant due to urbanization and growth of
population the amount of sewage sludge has
increased rapidly over years and is expected to
increase further.
Scientists has predicted that 7 million metric
tonnes of sewage sludge will be generated
annually by 2020 with the cost of management
upto USD 0.4 billion per year.
Cement is the most extensively used material in
building industry.
The sewage sludge ash has a few properties
similar to the Ordinary Portland Cement.
 So we proposed to partially replace cement in
the concrete by incinerated sewage sludge ash to
effectively disposal of the sludge
Sewage Sludge
Under the guidance of
Civil Engineering Department, TCET, Kandivali , Mumbai
Methodology: Conclusion:
From the analysis of this research, the following
1 • Collection from STP
conclusion can be established:
2 • Store in Container Incineration of sewage sludge at 600 °C reduces its
volume to less than 50 %, which is a feasible solution to
3 • Oven Dry the land disposal problems. Besides that, incineration
removed the organic compound and increases the
4 • Place in incinerator cup composition of oxide element SiO2, P2O5, CaO and
• Incinerated from room temp 28 0C. Al2O3.
5
Incinerated sewage sludge ash is a potential cement
6 • Cooling Down replacement as the major oxide of SSA (SiO2, CaO and
Al2O3) similar to the Portland cement based composites
7 • Collection and storing of SSA where it is the primary component found in the cement
8 • Grinding of SSA
clinker.
The expected compressive strength at the end of 28
9 • Storing and preparing for sieve days is-
1) For 5% sludge content is 30 N/mm2
2) For 10% sludge content is 33 N/mm2 .
Reference:
The news minute – Building from wast3e
International Journal of Mechanical And Production
Engineering, Volume- 5, Issue-10, Oct.-2017
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236109125_Use_of_s
ewage_sludge_ash_SSA_in_the_production_of_cement_and_con
crete_-_A_review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20935389
Incinerator
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