The Effects of Wind Velocity on the Binding Properties of Ash, Bottom Ash, and Additives: A Wind Tunnel Study
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Abstract
The more economically viable and environmentally sustainable approach for treating the by-products of coal combustion from thermal power plants entails their collective disposal as opposed to individual disposal methods. This aligns with pertinent EU directives and domestic regulations, ensuring compliance with established standards while optimizing resource utilization and minimizing environmental impact. This study evaluated the resistance to wind erosion of the binding properties of a mixture (fly ash (FA), bottom ash (BA), and additives) using an indoor wind tunnel under simulated ambient conditions. Investigations of the mutual impact of ash, bottom ash, and additives (CaO and Ca(OH)2) with a certain percentage of water were carried out with eighteen samples. The samples consisted of the water at six addition rates 5, 8, 10, 15, 20, and 25% (w/w), and additive at three addition rates (1, 2, and 3% (w/w). Based on the obtained results, the optimal ratios of additives (3% (w/w)) and water (15% (w/w)) were determined. Prior to the wind tunnel experiments, and according to the different addition rates of additives and water, eight samples were prepared with different addition rates of ash. The mass concentrations of suspended particles (PM10) and total suspended particles (TSPs) in these samples were measured at three distinct wind velocities: 1 m/s, 3 m/s, and 5 m/s, respectively. The results indicate that the samples containing the optimal content of additives and water demonstrate a maximum increase in PM10 emission zero values of no more than 1.9 times. This finding can be considered satisfactory from the standpoint of environmental protection.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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