Abstract: A way of using fly ash and water to make a road base material is disclosed. Class C fly ash, which sets up very quickly, is mixed with a hydrating liquid and compacted prior to initial set. To facilitate mixing, transportation and placement of the wet mixture, a set sequestering additive may be added to the water before mixing the water and the fly ash. Also disclosed is a mixing device designed to be attached to the underside of a tanker trailer of the type used to transport dry fly ash. The mixer introduces water to the inside and outside areas of a falling tubular stream of fly ash.
Abstract: A method for making synthetic aggregate. Fly ash is combined with water to form a soil-like mixture. The mixture is then compacted into slabs and allowed to set. After setting, the material is crushed to appropriate size. Since fly ash and water mixtures set quickly, and since compaction should take place prior to setting of the mixture, a set sequestering admixture may be used to facilitate the process.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of utilizing sewage sludge to form a stablized sterile or pasteurized material which can be used as fertilizer, as fill for land development, or as a cover in solid-waste disposal applications. Fluidized bed combustion residue, fly ash, or FBCR and fly ash are added directly to the sewage sludge exothermic heat is released and the mixture is cured in order to eliminate bacterial and other pathogenic agents. The mixture has a soil-like consistancy, making it spreadable. The mixture has both the nutritive benefits of sewage sludge as a fertilizer and alkalinity for treatment of overly acidic soil.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 1991
Date of Patent:
September 1, 1992
Assignee:
American Fly Ash Company
Inventors:
Glenn O. Schumacher, LaVerne Weber, Mitchell Nowicki, Alan Dunbar, Jeffrey M. Douglas
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of utilizing sewage sludge to form a stabilized sterile or pasteurized material which can be used as fertilizer, as fill for land development, or as a cover in solid-waste disposal applications. Fluidized bed combustion residue, fly ash, or FBCR and fly ash are added directly to the sewage sludge exothermic heat is released and the mixture is cured in order to eliminate bacterial and other pathogenic agents. The mixture has a soil-like consistency, making it spreadable. The mixture has both the nutritive benefits of sewage sludge as a fertilizer and alkalinity for treatment of overly acidic soil.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 11, 1989
Date of Patent:
September 24, 1991
Assignee:
American Fly Ash Company
Inventors:
Glenn O. Schumacher, LaVerne Weber, Mitchell Nowicki, Alan Dunbar, Jeffrey M. Douglas
Abstract: A method and system for disposing of fly ash together with water or liquid industrial waste, and the product produced thereby, in an environmentally acceptable manner which includes combining dry fly ash with a liquid additive in an amount of about 5%-25% of weight of liquid additive to weight of fly ash in a mixing operation which closely controls the liquid additive to yield a uniformly conditioned product which can be subjected to earth handling equipment pressures immediately and which eliminates cell preparation and greatly reduces leaching at the disposal site.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 1982
Date of Patent:
September 18, 1984
Assignee:
American Fly Ash Company
Inventors:
Mitchell L. Nowicki, Alan R. Dunbar, Joseph H. Pound
Abstract: This invention relates generally to a process and system for wasting fly ash, and is specifically directed to a fly ash wasting system which provides an economical and environmentally acceptable mode of wasting fly ash which has been generated in large quantities per unit of time, as in the case of coal-burning power generating stations, which includes forming a pumpable slurry composed of fly ash and water, or fly ash, water and a supplemental additive, and forming a self-sustaining, nonleachable solid body.
Abstract: This invention relates generally to a process and system for wasting fly ash, and is specifically directed to a fly ash wasting system which provides an economical and environmentally acceptable mode of wasting fly ash which has been generated in large quantities per unit of time, as in the case of coal-burning power generating stations.