Indore:
The Indian Institute of Expertise, Indore, has developed the first-of-its-kind cow dung-based pure foaming agent which is able to act as thermal insulation when blended in fashionable building materials like concrete, making it lighter, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
The foaming agent- GOBAiR- is the primary such product within the nation, they mentioned.
Including this eco-friendly product to the development materials is not going to solely scale back the price of establishing homes however can even preserve the buildings cool in summer time and heat in winter, in line with officers.
The modern product is totally pure and far more environmentally and cost-friendly than the chemical-based foaming brokers obtainable available in the market.
GOBAiR has been developed by Professor Sandeep Chaudhary and his PhD pupil Sanchit Gupta.
“We were working on ways and means to generate higher incomes from cow dung and support gaushalas (cowsheds) in managing stray cattle. This is how GOBAiR came into existence,” Professor Chaudhary mentioned.
He claimed GOBAiR permits light-weight concrete, which will be produced at about 24% decrease price than commercially used constructing supplies.
“The product is showing better economics and properties than red clay bricks and fly ash bricks available in the market. If the profits are translated to monetary value, then the income from wet cow dung can increase from the current value of less than Rs 1 to over Rs 4 per kilogram,” as per a launch issued by the IIT-Indore.
GOBAiR will be added in concrete, bricks, tiles and blocks, to provide a variety of sustainable constructing supplies.
Building utilizing GOBAiR will probably be far more environmentally pleasant and can assist obtain extra factors in inexperienced constructing rankings, it mentioned.
The staff is presently engaged on creating a specs desk that the development trade can use as a prepared reference for including GOBAiR in concrete.
The staff can also be in contact with IGBC for the Inexperienced Product Certification of constructing merchandise produced from GOBAir. A patent has already been filed for this modern know-how, the discharge added.
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