Scientific and Industrial Research Council (CSIR) – Sercher has developed two technologies. One of them is ecological. Use industrial waste, including flying ashes and calcium carbide mud, with new geometric shape blocks that make the building resistant to seismicular. With the other technology, thermally efficient blocks are performed using thermocol between ferrocement layers.
To demonstrate both technologies, a building is built within the Taramani complex on its part.
This resistant climate building of approximately 500 Sq. Ft. It was opened recent by N. Kalaiselvi, general director of CSIR, who suggested that this technology could be used in mountainous areas.
The director of CSIR-SERC, N. Anandavalli, said the patent was in process for these technologies. The minimum use of cement helps reduce the energy used in cement manufacturing.
Balasubramanian SR, main scientist, CSIR-process, who developed technologies explained that only about 10% of the content is cement. “The calcium carbide mud is a waste product of acetylene gas plants and flying ashes are the waste generated from the thermal plants in large quantities, both are causing the contamination that lands and water. When these materials are combined, a puzolanic lime.”
Mr. Balasubramanian, who has been working in the field of seismic behavior of structural masonry buildings for almost two decades, said that two rooms in the building were building an intercapacted ecological masonry.
Two other rooms had been built with thermally efficient lightweight blocks that have an extended extended poli layer (thermocol) interspersed between ferroemento sheets. One more building with larger panels of the same materials had also built legs. This would help keep the interiors faster than the exterior and would also make the building resistant to the Síspera due to its light weight. The thermocol has low conductivity and in test conditions it could avoid heat and maintain interiors of up to 5 degrees Celsius lower than the outer temperature.
Around the next three years, this building will be tested in climatic conditions of vaseo to collect more data.
Published – April 13, 2025 09:55 pm ist
