Knowledge-Based Firm in Iran Produces Light Industrial Pumice Stone for Making Bricks
“The product is used in making light bricks and working with it is so easy that the traditional brick-making workshops can also utilize the product without any need to change the procedures,” Jafar Taheri, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“These types of pumice stones can also be used in agriculture, collecting oil stains, thin asphalt coating in hot areas, etc.,” he added.
Teheri noted that the salient feature of the light industrial pumice is that it weighs less than one gram per cubic centimeter, and can be used for sound and thermal insulation, improving aeration of agricultural soil, low water absorption and high shear resistance.
In a relevant development last December, Iranian researchers at Islamic Azad University’s Arak branch and Zabol University of Medical Sciences in a joint research had also produced light bricks from palm tree wastes which can decrease casualties caused by earthquake and settle the problem of burning the plant’s wastes.
“We were able to produce plant-based bricks from palm tree wastes in a joint project between Islamic Azad University’s Arak branch and Zabol University of Medical Sciences,” said Fatemeh Torkizadeh, one of the researchers of this project.
“This brick has less weight than the bricks that are currently used in the construction of structures. The ordinary bricks weigh 1.2kg while the plant-based bricks weigh 300 grams,” she added.
“Application of these bricks in structures to a large extent reduces the loss of life due to the collapse of debris caused by the earthquake,” Torkizadeh said.
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