Utilización de lodos producto de una planta de lácteos para la elaboración de ladrillos aplicando la norma INEN 3049.

Abstract

Milk production is essential in people's diets, its high content of nutrients beneficial to the body has increased the demand for its consumption. This has resulted in a large amount of waste product from the cleaning and disinfection of machinery, which is called sludge. In this degree work, the efficiency of sludge as a partial replacement of clay in the production of bricks is evaluated. The experimental part of the project consists of three stages, the first one starts with the search for a standard brick that meets the minimum resistance required by the NTE INEN 3049 standard. In the second stage, a physical and chemical analysis of the soil and mud was carried out. In order to know the properties of these materials and their benefits for construction. The third stage consisted of the preparation of 10 samples of bricks in dosages of 5%, 10%, 15%, 15%, 20% and 30% of partial replacement of clay by mud. Tests were carried out to analyze the physical properties of the bricks. The results of the tests showed that the mud is not beneficial for the bricks, since the compressive strength required by the standards was not obtained in any dosage. In addition to this, they exceed the maximum water absorption percentage. Regarding the compressive strength, it was analyzed that the optimum percentage of mud in the mixture should be 2%, so that this parameter is not affected.