Conservation of Islamia College Building in Pakistan

Ayub, Muhammad Asif; Ali, Qaisar; Shahzada, Khan; Naseer, Amjad; Shoaib, Muhammad

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2013.03.042

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“…Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has an extensive history of producing high quality bricks [1][2][3]. For example, a large number of the buildings in our province are over a century old [4,5]. In Peshawar region, wet clay (90 weight percent), sand (5 weight percent), and coal dust (5 weight percent) are uniformly combined before being moulded into a standard sized bricks [6].…”

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Compositional analysis of dark colored particulates homogeneously emitted with combustion gases (dark plumes) from brick making kilns situated in the area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Hassan,

Khan,

Syed

et al. 2024

Mehran Univ. res. j. eng. technol.

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In Pakistan raw coal and a little quantity of waste plastics are burnt to sustain high temperature inside brick making kilns. The gaseous emissions of the kilns contain a considerable amount of darkish colored particulates. It is currently believed that the plastic burning produces these particulates. Advanced characterization instruments, such as a scanning electron microscope, energy dispersive spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffractometer, surface area analyzer using nitrogen gas adsorption isotherms, and thermogravimetric analyzer, were used to find out the chemistry and physics of the particulates. At a magnification of 30,000x, the SEM picture shows masses that are roughly roundish in shape and their size is in between 0.1 to 0.5 microns. The elements detected in these particles are carbon, oxygen, and sulfur (EDS analysis), or in other words, these elements are a typical composition of raw coal. This elemental analysis suggest that fine coal particles come out with usual combustion gases and these emitted particulates are not plastic combustion product. To strengthen this finding, the sample when calcined discarded a significant amount of sulphur oxides species, as determined in the XRF study by noticing a considerable decrease of sulphur content in the calcined particles, suggesting that the particles are actually a coal. The N2 isotherm graph reveals that the light weight flying coal particles has a very low surface area. Additionally, the XRD and TGA studies supports the conclusion that these dark colored particulate emissions are primarily fine coal particles (cenosphere).

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