Development of a Crush and Mix Machine for Composite Brick Fabrication
- Department of Design and Manufacture Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University (Japan)
Currently, people are more and more concerned about the environmental protection. Municipal solid wastes (MSW) have bad effect on the environment and also human health. In addition, the amounts of municipal solid wastes are increasing due to the economic development, density of population, especially in the developing countries and they are recycled in a little percentage. To address this problem, the composite brick forming machine was designed and developed to make brick using combination of MSW and mortar. The machine consists of two independent parts, crusher and mixer part, and molding part. This paper explores the design of crusher and mixer part. The crusher has ability to cut MSW such as wood, paper and plastic into small size. There are two mixers; one is used for making mortar and other use for making slurry. FEA analyses were carried out to address the suitable strength of the critical parts of the crusher which ensures that crusher can run properly with high efficiency. The experimentation of the crusher shows that it has high performance for cutting MSW. The mixers also work very well in high efficiency. The results of composite brick testing have been shown that ability of the machine can performance well. This is the innovation of crush and mix machine which is portable and economic by using MSW in replacement of sand.
- OSTI ID:
- 21513157
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1315; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
BRICKS
BUILDING MATERIALS
CALCULATION METHODS
COMPOSITE MATERIALS
CUTTING
DENSITY
DISPERSIONS
EFFICIENCY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
EQUIPMENT
FABRICATION
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
MACHINING
MATERIALS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
MIXERS
MIXTURES
MOLDING
MORTARS
MUNICIPAL WASTES
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC POLYMERS
PETROCHEMICALS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PLASTICS
POLYMERS
SLURRIES
SOLID WASTES
SUSPENSIONS
SYNTHETIC MATERIALS
WASTES