Production of eco-friendly hybrid blocks

Abstract

The production of the blocks is an essential aspect of the constructional industry. The production process is considerably energy exhausting, contamination emitter, un eco-friendly, and waste generator. The target of this research is to produce an innovative eco-friendly interlocking block made from locally available waste materials like palm oil clinker, palm oil fuel ash, and quarry dust by non-conventional procedure. The modern approach neither exhausts the virgin material of earth nor does it consume energy resources or emit contamination, with remarkable economic and ecological benefits. The properties of the blocks like the compressive strength of the blocks, compressive strength of the prism, and modulus of rupture, water absorption, ultra-sonic pulse velocity, thermal conductivity, and the efflorescence were investigated in this research. Based on the results out coming, the blocks developed in this research can be classified as light weight and thermally efficient. The hybrid interlocking blocks produced wholly from waste materials showed superior properties in comparison to the conventional interlocking blocks and satisfied the relevant thresholds. Thus, they can be used in the building sector as substitute to the conventional blocks.