Soil or ground quality stabilizer and treatment method

• US 5,658,097 A
• Filed: 12/14/1995
• Issued: 08/19/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: FE LIME Industry Corporation
• Original Assignee: FE LIME Industry Corporation
• Inventors: Komori, Teruaki, Mizoguchi, Takayoshi, II, Tsukio, II, Akira, II, Kiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Suchfield, George A.
• Application Number:
  US08/567,185
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: 405/258, 405/263, 106/705, 106/706, 106/707, 106/710, 106/793, 106/811, 106/900, 210/751, 404/76, 588/256, 588/267
• US Class Current: 405/263
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 14/308 Iron oxide
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 14/361 Soil, e.g. laterite
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 18/103 Burned or pyrolised sludges
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 2111/00732 for soil stabilisation
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 28/18 containing mixtures of the silica-lime type
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 17/06 Calcium compounds, e.g. lime
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 17/08 Aluminium compounds, e.g. aluminium hydroxide
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/91 Use of waste materials as fillers for mortars or concrete

Abstract

The present disclosure concerns a soil or ground quality stabilizer comprising a mixture formed by mixing a burned sewage sludge ash the main contents of which are CaO, SiO₂ and Al₂ O₃ with a lime of calcium hydroxide to reduce hydraulicity and a fine Fe oxides mixture powder byproduced in steel production the main content of which is iron oxide. The soil or ground quality stabilizer is added into a pavement material containing crushed stones, natural soil, etc. to improve the strength and viscoelasticity of the natural soil and can give a desired CBR strength to the soil having an increased moisture content. The preferable adding ratio of the fine Fe oxides mixture powder into the mixture of the burned sewage sludge ash and the lime of calcium hydroxide is within the range of 15-35 weight %.

Claims

1. A soil or ground quality stabilizer comprising a fine Fe oxides mixture, the main content of which is iron oxide, and a mixture formed by mixing a burned sewage sludge ash with a lime of calcium hydroxide to reduce hydraulicity.

3. The soil or ground quality stabilizer according to claim 1 wherein the mixing ratio of the Fe oxides mixture to the mixture of the burned sewage sludge ash and the lime of calcium hydroxide is within the range of approximately 15-35 weight %.

2. The soil or ground quality stabilizer according to claim wherein the main contents of the burned sewage sludge ash are CaO, SiO₂ and Al₂ O₃.

4. A soil or ground quality stabilizer treatment method comprising:

preparing a soil or ground quality stabilizer formed by adding a mixture of a burned sewage sludge ash and a lime of calcium hydroxide having a reduced hydraulicity to a fine Fe oxides mixture, the main content of which is iron oxide;

adding the soil or ground quality stabilizer to a pavement material containing crushed stones and natural soil.

5. The soil or ground quality stabilizer treatment method according to claim 4 wherein the burned sewage sludge ash contains CaO, SiO₂ and Al₂ O₃ as the main contents.

6. The soil or ground quality stabilizer treatment method accordng to claim 4 wherein the mixing ratio of the fine Fe oxides mixture to the mixture of the burned sewage sludge ash and the lime of calcium hydroxide is within the range of 15-35 weight %.