Zinc phosphate sludge for bricks: helpful thesis advice

Summary for zinc phosphate sludge for bricks Discussion

zinc phosphate sludge for bricks is raised here as a thesis idea, but the thread does not provide a technical method. Gokulakrishnana K.R. asks how to use zinc phosphate sludge in brick manufacture. Ted Mooney, P.E. responds that it sounds like a good and useful thesis topic, but says the post is too vague to answer as written. He asks the student to begin with an abstract and then return with specific questions and the kind of information needed. In other words, the discussion does not endorse a process or give formulation advice; it mainly recommends framing the project clearly before seeking technical help. The practical takeaway is that more detail is needed before anyone can assess whether the sludge can be incorporated into bricks, and in what way.

Q. How to use zinc phosphate sludge for the manufacture of bricks.

Gokulakrishnana K.R
Student – India
April 9, 2009

A. This sounds like a good and useful idea for a thesis, K.R., but c’mon :-)
Are you expecting to just provide a title, and then have a generous reader write it for you? :-)

Please start it off with an abstract, and then post some specific questions with what kind of info you would like to get, and I think people will be happy to help! Thanks.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, finishing.com
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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Q. Hello Mr.Ted, Zinc Phosphating Sludge is heard to be useful in manufacture of bricks. Is it true? We do Zinc Phosphating process and after ETP treatment of the effluents, want to approach an interested concern for making bricks. But before doing that, at the outset want to know if this thinking is meaningful.

Subhajyoti Sen
– Hosur, Tamil Nadu
February 8, 2017

A. Hi Subhajyoti. Things are different in the USA than in India. Here our EPA was very concerned about the possibility of the generators of waste contracting for disposal with low-priced fly-by-night companies. They therefore ruled that the generator is FOREVER responsible for the waste — and this stopped the whole idea of Industrial Waste Exchanges dead in its tracks. Nobody will ship their waste to a third party for re-use considering the unbelievable level of exposure this creates. Could you imagine someone building a skyscraper with bricks from your zinc phosphate sludge, and you being responsible for removing those bricks? :-)

Yet another thing that happened in the USA was an incident where contaminated waste oil was used to oil the roads in a town, with the whole area permanently evacuated and becoming a ghost town (Times Beach, MO). You’ll learn nothing about re-use from the USA. We landfill our waste products, period. :-(

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ted_yosem
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February 2017

thumbs up sign Thanks Mr.Ted for taking time out to reply.

Kind Regards.

Subhajyoti Sen [returning]
– Hosur, Tamil Nadu
February 8, 2017