{"id":24628,"date":"2019-10-17T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=24628"},"modified":"2019-10-17T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T09:30:38","slug":"bio-bricks-synthesized-from-agro-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/bio-bricks-synthesized-from-agro-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-bricks synthesized from agro-waste by IIT-KIIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a recent development by the joint collaboration of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) School of Architecture, Bhubhaneshwar, researchers have synthesized new \u2018bio-bricks\u2019 which are made of bio-degradable agriculture left-over and waste. This would include haystacks, wheat straws, animal dungs, and bagasse.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the reports, India releases more than 20% of its Carbon dioxide produced in the building and construction of homes and buildings. By using bio-bricks, the pollution problem gets curbed easily. Although it can\u2019t support heavy load buildings, it would really help in building houses, especially in rural India.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Normally for construction, the clay bricks are used. In making those clay bricks, it consumes a lot of the fertile soil of the land and produces a lot of Carbon dioxide as its by-product. Synthesis of bio-bricks emits no Carbon dioxide as such.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Bio-bricks a major development against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/students-action-on-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally, the waste produced in the agricultural is burnt, with farmers having no other ways to treat it. The burning of these wastes produces a lot of emissions. The bio-bricks, on the other hand, absorb a lot of CO2 to help the environment and the climate.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research team used sugarcane waste to develop bio-bricks. Processed sugarcane waste goes into the slurry tank with lime and a homogenous mixture is prepared. This mixture, further, gets into the bricks molds. Within a day or two, with natural drying, the bricks get ready. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetsnow.com\/tech-news\/iit-researchers-develop-bio-bricks-using-agricultural-waste-products\/articleshow\/71614376.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0.9 kg of waste<\/a> can build a single block. This gives the idea of how much waste can be reused and recycled.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bio-bricks entrap the CO2, which helps in the insulation of the house and keeps a steady humidity percentage in the house. This would especially help in humid climatic countries.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Bio-brick inventors Priyabrata Rautray (IIT-H) and Avik Roy (KIIT) received a special recognition award for their contribution to sustainable housing in the Rural Innovators Start-Up Conclave 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent development by the joint collaboration of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) School of Architecture, Bhubhaneshwar, researchers have synthesized new \u2018bio-bricks\u2019 which are made of bio-degradable agriculture left-over and waste. This would include haystacks, wheat straws, animal dungs, and bagasse. As per the reports, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":24629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}