Aprovechamiento del Bagazo de Caña de Azúcar en la Fabricación de Bloques Ecológicos para Mampostería Liviana.

Abstract

The Baños canton presents problems with the excessive production of sugarcane bagasse, both in its collection and in its proper handling, 1.44 tons/day of sugarcane bagasse are produced daily, resulting in negative impacts on the environment, due to the decomposition time and the volume that this residue occupies in the dump; and from the economic point of view we have lost time and money in its collection. The objective of this project is the revaluation of this waste, using it in the field of construction, through the manufacture of blocks for light masonry and in turn overcome the mechanical and physical characteristics of the conventional block. The materials used in the manufacture of these blocks are water cement, stone aggregates (sand and gravel) and sugar cane bagasse, the latter helps to reduce the amount of sand and gravel in a 1 to 1 ratio. Research methods were applied deductive and experimental, as well as techniques for statistical analysis regarding the production of the residue, the pre-treatment of the bagasse was achieved by continuous flow for 12 hours, thus reducing the amount of sugar from 25.59% to 5.75%, this helps us to obtain a correct setting of these construction elements and finally mechanical and physical tests were carried out on the finished blocks. Three different dosages were tested, the same ones that varied in the amount of bagasse, performing physical and mechanical tests to verify the improvement in any characteristic of the conventional blocks; Thus, dosage number one reported 14.47 kg/cm2 in the compressive strength test and the control sample reported 11.95 kg/cm2, while in the physical tests, the wet weight and real density are lower. than in the control or conventional blocks, proving that the use of sugar cane bagasse in the manufacture of blocks for masonry.