TREATMENT FLY ASH OF AL MUSAYYIB THERMAL POWER PLANT TO BE USED AS A POZZOLANIC MATERIAL

Abstract

Crude oil ash is the residue that is produced during oil combustion for instance fly ash, bottom ash or boiler slag which was primarily produced from the combustion of coal. With growth in oil burning power station, huge amount of fly ash considered as organic materials which are normally disposed in an on-site disposal system without any commercialization purpose. Previous researchers have studied the extraction of silica from agricultural wastes such as palm ash and rice husk ash (RHA) and FA (fly ash) by using leaching treatment method. In this study, the weaker acid, citric acid solution was used to replace the strong acid in leaching treatment to process. Result showed that the loss on ignition materials can be decrease to 12%. Meanwhile the silica can be extracted up to 54.4% from FA using citric acid leaching treatment under the optimum reaction time of 60 minutes with solution temperature of 60°C and concentration of citric acid 5% receded by gradual combustion at 900°C for 3 hours.