Structures constructed using coal combustion materials
AssigneeGo Team CCR LLC
InventorsFrancis Norbert Hector, Jr., Juan Keith Carroll
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Abstract
Beneficial use structures are disclosed that include coal combustion residuals (“CCR”) mixed with water and a binder to form a structural material and adapted to be compacted for use in the formation of the beneficial use structure. Various structures having beneficial uses described, including survival bunkers, composting pits, mine reclamation encapsulation and carbon sequestration facilities, water storage facilities, compressed air storage facilities, carbon sequestration/mineral carbonation facilities and a pumped hydroelectric facility adapted for use with a lock system of a waterway.
Claims8
A beneficial use structure comprising coal combustion residuals (“CCR”) mixed with water and a binder to form a structural material, and adapted to be compacted for use in a formation of the beneficial use structure, wherein the structural material is adapted for use as a load-bearing wall, and is comprised of between approximately 25 and 50 percent CCR, 25 and 50 percent water and 25 and 14 percent cement, and further wherein the beneficial use structure is a survival bunker, comprising:
- a. an interior volume defined by sloped sidewalls and a planar top that together define a truncated pyramid structure, and having blast-deflecting characteristics defined by a solid volume thickness of the sloped sidewalls and planar top;
- b. the solid volume thickness of the bunker comprising a coal combustion residue (“CCR”)-based material;
- c. a base on which the sloped sidewalls and planar top are constructed;
- d. a plurality of survival living areas in the interior volume of the bunker and reached by respective entrance/exit tunnels formed through the CCR-based material;
- e. air intake and exhaust plenums extending between the survival living areas and outside the bunker to maintain appropriate oxygen levels in the bunker;
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- f. at least one multi-fuel generator for providing electric current to the survival living areas, including at least one fuel supply facility for supplying fuel to the generator.
A beneficial use structure comprising coal combustion residuals (“CCR”) mixed with water and a binder to form a structural material, and adapted to be compacted for use in the formation of the beneficial use structure, wherein the structural material is adapted for use as a load-bearing wall, and is comprised of between approximately 29 and 78 percent CCR, and further wherein the beneficial use structure is a survival bunker, comprising:
- a. an interior volume defined by sloped sidewalls and a planar top that together define a truncated pyramid structure, and having blast-deflecting characteristics defined by a solid volume thickness of the sloped sidewalls and planar top;
- b. the solid volume thickness of the bunker comprising a coal combustion residue (“CCR”)-based material;
- c. a base on which the sloped sidewalls and planar top are constructed;
- d. a plurality of survival living areas in the interior volume of the bunker and reached by respective entrance/exit tunnels formed through the CCR-based material;
- e. air intake and exhaust plenums extending between the survival living areas and outside the bunker to maintain appropriate oxygen levels in the bunker;
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- f. at least one multi-fuel generator for providing electric current to the survival living areas, including at least one fuel supply facility for supplying fuel to the generator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.