STUDY OF EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TEXTILE EFFLUENT SLUDGE

Civil Engineering

In Today’s world construction cost is very high. Cement production requires high energy input and also it is generating greenhouse gases Due to the lack of natural resources, the production of cement requires the use of traditional materials, which leads to significant CO2 emissions, finding affordable and environmentally suitable cement substitutes is therefore necessary. In order to reduce disposal and pollution issues caused by textile sludge, it is crucial to develop profitable building materials from textile sludge. This problem can be solved by completely or partially replacing concrete with a different material, but this is not convenient in terms of the required properties. We can save natural resources and lower CO2 emissions into the sky if we can partially replace cement with a substance with acceptable qualities. In the presented study the textile effluent sludge is burnt at various temperature and their chemical and physical properties were analyzed. The samples were subjected to XRF, XRD, SEM tests and various physical tests as well; such as density, water absorption and specific gravity test. The chemical tests were carried out to check if the chemical compounds like lime, alumina, iron oxides and silica which are present in TES and burnt TES; as these are present in cement. This study's main goal is to choose waste materials that have valuable qualities similar to cement. The obtained result showed that burnt TES had better physical and chemical results when compared with the unburnt textile effluent sludge and the properties were quite similar to that of cement.

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