• DABBIRU RAVI VIKRANTH
• M CHAITANYA MAYEE

Waste Management relies on 5R’s (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, Recover, and Residual Management). High Power to Weight Ratio (P/W), Torque to Weight Ratio (T/W), durability have added more plastic to metal or plastic to non – metal composites production. Plastic based products are filling the landfills and even polluting the marine environment. A startling inference by Department of Health Services, USA, by 2030, one thirds of the world’s oceans would be filled with plastic debris and the plastic debris are going to out run the total marine species. There are certain variants of plastic debris, which take more than 350 years to be bio-degradable. Besides Odour, landfill gases responsible for acute or chronic respiratory disorders, carcinomas etc. Plastic materials are classified on 1 – 7 scale, of which Poly Vinyl Chloride (#RIC3), Polystyrene (#RIC6) and Bisphenol-S (BPS - #RIC7) are highly toxic and cannot be used. The study also presents results of experimental work on bricks made of thermoplastic granules constituting 0 to 15% by weight, fly ash 15%, cement 15% and silica etc. Bricks of 190 x 90 x 90 mm size are casted by pre – heating the homogeneous mixture and impregnating with Cement or Concrete and curing for 28 days. The compressive strengths after addition of waste plastic to the extent of 15% by weight is about 17MPa [in lieu of ASTM standards]. The integration of a Phase Change Materials (PCM) layer e.g. CaCl2:6H2O into an external building wall diminished the amplitude of the instantaneous heat flux through the wall. The considered model consists of usual brick with square holes used as construction materials for residential buildings, some of these square holes are filled with PCM. The results depicted central spattered PCM improves considerably the thermal inertia of brick. A recycled RIC -7: fly ash impregnated in concrete material achieves a number of goals i.e. promoting ecological protection, low pollution, and conservation of resources. Moreover, the prime characteristics found are lightweight, of low thermal conductivity, and of appreciable mechanical strengths.

Plastic Brick, PCM, Compressive Strength, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Flux, Extruding Machine etc.

"DESIGN, ANALYSIS and TESTING OF RECYCLED RIC-7 FLY ASH BRICKS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.56-62, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901708.pdf

"DESIGN, ANALYSIS and TESTING OF RECYCLED RIC-7 FLY ASH BRICKS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp56-62, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901708.pdf