Non-firing materials using clay soils

Production of Household Paint using Clay Materials

The use of clay materials for the production of emulsion paints was investigated. Two types of clay: White tinged with Purple and Smooth clay (WSP) and Grey Brown and Coarse clay (GBC), were used for the production of Emulsion Clay Paints (ECP). Conventional Chemical pigmented Paint (CP) was also produced as a control. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, (AAS) was used to determine the chemical com...

Chemical Improvement of Clay Soils in situ Using Electrokinetic Processes

been widely researched as surface and deep soil treatment techniques (Figure 1). For certain practical situations, such as house foundations on expansive soil, mixing is not possible. Current research has shown that chemical treatment using a potential difference to transport chemical ions between bespoke electrodes can overcome such problems, whilst achieving the desired results. However, a ma...

Microwave Autogenous Firing of Heavy Clay Products

Information Transmission Using Non-Poisson Regular Firing

In many cortical areas, neural spike trains do not follow a Poisson process. In this study, we investigate a possible benefit of non-Poisson spiking for information transmission by studying the minimal rate fluctuation that can be detected by a Bayesian estimator. The idea is that an inhomogeneous Poisson process may make it difficult for downstream decoders to resolve subtle changes in rate fl...

Assessing strategies to mitigate phosphorus leaching from drained clay soils

Assessing mitigation of phosphorus (P) leaching from subsurface drainage systems is challenging due to high spatial and temporal variation in leaching. Mean measured total P leaching from a clayey soil in an eight-year study period (four replicates per treatment) was (kg ha-1 year-1): 1.21 from shallow autumn tillage (ShT), 0.84 from unfertilised fallow (UF), 0.81 from conventional autumn ploug...