STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION

Excessive effluent ammonia limits the potential ground improvement applications of the Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) process due to its harmful environmental consequences. Alternatively, innocuous biopolymers are being researched for strengthening soils, but their hydrophilic natu...

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Main Author: ASHRAF, MUHAMMAD SOHAIL
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Language:English
Published: 2020
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spelling oai:utpedia.utp.edu.my:204852024-07-25T06:14:38Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/20485/ STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION ASHRAF, MUHAMMAD SOHAIL TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Excessive effluent ammonia limits the potential ground improvement applications of the Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) process due to its harmful environmental consequences. Alternatively, innocuous biopolymers are being researched for strengthening soils, but their hydrophilic nature reduces their ground improvement potential overtime. This research not only optimized the current MICP process (by reducing the excessive effluent ammonia) for strengthening coastal sand deposits by using sea water but also conducted the first laboratory scale study of using gellan gum biopolymer for strengthening these sands using sea water. Statistically optimized trials of MICP treatment were developed by using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) for the treatment of sand columns. The Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) results of these treated columns were fed into the developed statistical model for further optimization of influent concentrations (urea = 0.01 M  0.10 M; CaCl2= 0.00 M  0.05 M). 2020-12 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/20485/1/Muhammad%20Sohail%20Ashraf_G03556.pdf ASHRAF, MUHAMMAD SOHAIL (2020) STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
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ASHRAF, MUHAMMAD SOHAIL
STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION
description Excessive effluent ammonia limits the potential ground improvement applications of the Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) process due to its harmful environmental consequences. Alternatively, innocuous biopolymers are being researched for strengthening soils, but their hydrophilic nature reduces their ground improvement potential overtime. This research not only optimized the current MICP process (by reducing the excessive effluent ammonia) for strengthening coastal sand deposits by using sea water but also conducted the first laboratory scale study of using gellan gum biopolymer for strengthening these sands using sea water. Statistically optimized trials of MICP treatment were developed by using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) for the treatment of sand columns. The Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) results of these treated columns were fed into the developed statistical model for further optimization of influent concentrations (urea = 0.01 M  0.10 M; CaCl2= 0.00 M  0.05 M).
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author ASHRAF, MUHAMMAD SOHAIL
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title STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION
title_short STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION
title_full STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION
title_fullStr STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION
title_full_unstemmed STRENGTHENING OF COASTAL SANDS BY USING GELLAN GUM AND OPTIMIZED MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION
title_sort strengthening of coastal sands by using gellan gum and optimized microbially induced calcite precipitation
publishDate 2020
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/20485/1/Muhammad%20Sohail%20Ashraf_G03556.pdf
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