fly ash content Articles
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Case study - High volume fly ash concrete for Colorado`s ocean journey aquarium
From the visually breathtaking use of shotcrete to create the architectural features of rocks and trees in the Ocean Journey complex, to the 8,500 cubic yards of high performance concrete for the salt-water tanks and the structure in general – all benefited from the use of Headwaters Resources fly ash. S.A. Miro Engineering sought a high performance concrete with the following features: ...
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Case study - Point Mugu Naval Airstrip
The runway is located at the Point Mugu Naval Air Station in Southern California. Economy, durability, low shrinkage and high strength were accomplished by reducing the amount of portland cement used in the concrete while utilizing large volumes of fly ash. In addition to field performance, this approach provided the added environmental goal of reducing the CO2 released into the air through ...
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Case study - High volume fly ash for the 2 Folsom project
High Volume Fly Ash (HVFA) concrete was successfully used as the cornerstone of this project’s sustainability program. HVFA concrete was aggressively pursued because of its environmental benefits. When fly ash is used in place of cement, energy and landfill space is conserved and greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. During this HVFA project, roughly 2,800 tons of CO2 emissions were ...
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Case study - Seattle Seahawk Garage & Exhibition Hall
Turner Construction chose a mix with 30% Class F fly ash to meet the architectural and performance needs for the Seattle Seahawks Garage and Exhibition Hall. Turner had already completed a number of projects for Seahawks owner Paul Allen (cofounder of Microsoft) – including the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon – and intended to maintain the same high quality on this project that they ...
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Case study - Fly ash for California’s Olivenhain dam
The Olivenhain Dam will be the first roller compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dam in California and the tallest in North America. At 308 feet tall and 2,552 feet long, the dam used almost 1.5 million cubic yards of RCC and over 152,000 tons of fly ash. As the centerpiece of the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) Emergency Storage Project, the dam is designed to survive a major earthquake and ...
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Rotary Boiler Technology: Paving a new way for the combustion of solid wastes
We’re the UK’s sole distributor of Sugimat’s Waste-to-Energy (WtE) boilers, and the latest technology – the Horizon+ rotary boiler – is capable of handling any type of biomass and most fuels, particularly problematic solid waste fuels such as RDF and SRF. Our MD, Simon Webb, recently spoke to The Energy Industry Times about the global Waste-to-Energy (WtE) ...
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Product focus: Horizon+ rotary boiler
We’re super proud to be the UK’s exclusive distributor of Sugimat’s industry-leading Waste-to-Energy boilers – and we recently signed an exclusive deal to continue this for the next five years. In fact, we were recently interviewed by MRW about Sugimat’s latest technology – the Horizon+ boiler – which we’ve brought to the UK’s waste and ...
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Newbuild Power Station in Karlsruhe - Case Study
EnBW is one of the biggest German energy suppliers. A major new build bituminous coal fired power plant construction project is the new boiler number 8 of the Rheinhafen Dampfkraftwerk (RDK) in Karlsruhe. The new boiler will have a capacity of 912 MWel with a heating capacity of 220 MWth. The unit will be erected beside the existing units RDK4s and RDK7 and have a net efficiency of > 46% ...
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Case study - California sulfate damage awards
The construction defect trial went against developer Brighton Homes, concrete subcontractor James Mock Inc, and concrete supplier Owl Rock Products, based on negligence to abide by the provisions of the Uniform Building Code (UBC). The significance of this verdict is that while sulfate attack of concrete from the surrounding soils has been widely known and researched in the United States, ...
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