INDIACSR presents First National Conference on “Fly Ash: Wealth from Waste” 2013

Sept. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- You would be happy to know that INDIACSR will be organizing first National Conference on Fly Ash Management at Raipur, the Capital city of Chhattisgarh state in Feb 2013. The theme of the conference is “Fly Ash: Wealth from Waste”.  It is one of its own kind fly ash management symposium in State. Quarries can be sent to conference@indaflyash.com

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The Conference will provide valuable information on wider applications of fly ash to the fly ash generating industries and users industries for better fly ash management.

It will also provide a platform for creating greater awareness about new technologies and innovations in the use of fly ash. I will provide an effective forum for the transfer of information and new ideas to benefit the innovative utilization, handling, storage and disposal of Fly ash.

With greater emphasis on implementation of Gazette Notification on fly ash for various uses, this conference is extremely relevant and beneficial.

The attendees include national wide representative from academia, industry, and government. A good number of scientist, environmental, fly ash management companies from across the country have confirmed their participations. Experts have confirmed their participation and talk on issue of fly ash and slag management.

About the Theme: “Fly Ash:  Wealth from Waste”

Fly ash being considered a waste few years back, has converted itself into wealth, as a usable, valuable resource by establishing viable avenues for fly ash management. In other words, previously fly ash was looked upon as a waste and a pollutant. The perception has undergone considerable change over the past few years. Now Fly ash -a “waste material” considered a “resource material”.

The past decade has witnessed a significant growth in the technologies level w.r.t. fly ash disposal and utilization in the country and this millennium fly ash is itself is going to emerge as major industry.

There are lots of uses of Fly Ash. It is multipurpose resource. Fly ash from coal fired Thermal power plants is an excellent material for the manufacture of various construction materials like fly ash bricks, mosaic tiles and hollow blocks.

The manufacture of conventional clay bricks requires the consumption of large amounts of clay. These deplete top soil and leads to degradation of land.

Back ground:
The fast growing power sector with target to add 1, 00,000 MW every Five Year Plan, would have higher and higher demand for coal, resulting in generation of large volumes of fly ash. It was 40 million tonne per year during 1994 when the Fly Ash Mission was commissioned.

Now it has reached to the level of 160 million tonne per year. The corresponding utilization figures are 1 million tonne per year during 1994 (3% of generation) and 80 million tonne per year during 2009-10 (50% of generation). The fly ash generation is expected to increase to 190 million tonne per year (2011-12), 300 million tonne per year (2016-17) and 700 million tonne per year (2031-32).

More than 175 million tones of fly ash are expected to be generated in the country by the year 2012. This would require about 40,000 hectares of land for the construction of ash ponds. Such a huge quantity does pose challenging problem, in the form of land uses, health hazards and environmental dangers. Both in disposal, as well as in the utilization, utmost care has to be taken, to safeguard the interest of human life, wild life and environment.

Availability of land is big challenge for the power producer. All ready India is facing lot of problem in the land acquisition for setting up industry.

Fly ash is available in large quantities in the country as a waste product. This fly ash stored in dry condition in the ash ponds can become air born & thus polluting the air and resulting in health hazard.

Why in Chhattisgarh

It’s true that Chhattisgarh would be come a power hub with the production, but on the flipside if the fly Ash caused by these projects is not properly managed, the state would certainly become a Fly Ash hub as well. Consequently the entire atmosphere would be filled with black smoke, which would lead to the occurrence numerous fatal disease & water scarcity.

With the focus on setting up a large number of Thermal Power Plant in the state, the need to manage fly ash becomes a major issue of environment concern with serious environmental consequence for the future. Fly ash need to manage not only to reduce environmental pollution, but also to recycle and reuse to recover some valuable resources.

With the prime objective of solving the environmental problem of safe and bulk disposal of fly ash and to use it in bulk for constructive purposes like wasteland development, agriculture, brick and cement making, roads and embankment development, the government of Chhattisgarh always encourages to all concerns, involved in the activities.

Chhattisgarh is the first state that provides uninterrupted quality and cheap power on 24x7 basis, for both urban and rural.

In the next 5 years, likely capacity addition of 30,000 mw power plant with an investment of Rs 1, 50,000 crores. In the next 3 years, Korba will be generating 10,000 mw of power and would become the energy capital of India. In the next 3 years, the electricity companies of state will invest Rs 17,000 crores in generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure. Per capita energy consumption increased from 354 units to 1500 unites. Farmers are being provided with 6000 units free electricity per annum, 2.8 lakh pumps energized.

Besides this the production of waste namely fly ash would only further deteriorate the scenario. Suppose there is 30% of ash in coal, then total amount of ash would be produced at the rate of 5000 tonnes per hour. If assumed yearly production is of 8000 hours, the total 4 crore tonnes of ash and about 13 crore tonnes of carbon dioxide would be emitted every year.

CREDA, Chhattisgarh asserted that the related ministry has provided acceptance for 20000 MW electricity production projects in the Chhattisgarh. As now these projects are being implemented, a terrifying picture is emerging on the scene.

INDIACSR hopes this conference will promote fly ash utilizations in the state of Chhattisgarh.

Conference Topics
1.   Back filling of worked Open cast mines with fly ash alone or with fly ash and over burden.
2.   Transportation, conveying and handling of fly ashes.
3.   Utilization  of fly ash in agriculture
4.   Utilization of fly ash in construction industry
5.   Fly ash bricks/blocks, hollow blocks/light weight blocks for construction of Ventilation stoppings, Roof support etc.
6.   Fly Ash Management
7.   Safety and sustainability.
8.   Statutory aspects including notifications of MoEF, sand subsidy related matters etc.
9.   Environment conservation.
10.   Bio-remediation of mine spoils.
11.   Technologies in Fly ash.

Who Should Attend
1.   Regulators, policy makers, mine planners.
2.   Policy makers, Senior Executives of Steel, Power, Cement and mining companies and producers.
3.   Industries bodies and Business Chambers, research institutes, academia.
4.   Mining engineers.
5.   Environmentalists working on Fly ash issues.
6.   Technocrats and managers of power & mining sectors.
7.   Logistic companies, suppliers and all those engaged in the business of fly ash generation/handling.
8.   Fly ash by product producers.
9.   Construction and real estate companies.
10.   Scientists and Faculty.

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