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A&T researchers devise new uses for old ash

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• Aug 16, 2017
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Demonstration power pole cross-arms, made with 65% coal ash.

• Joseph Rodriguez/News & Record

Screened wet coal ash from South Carolina, at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

• Joseph Rodriguez/News & Record

An ongoing leaching experiment on coal ash composite blocks, underwater for over a year, at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

• Joseph Rodriguez/News & Record

“These are products that can be made as good as any other material, plus they have added benefits like fire- and insect-resistance,” says Kunigal Shivakumar, director of the Center for Composite Research at N.C. A&T.

• Photos by Joseph Rodriguez/News & Record

Results from experiments that show coal ash composites don’t burn but wood does, at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

• Joseph Rodriguez/News & Record

Coal ash composite between layers of fiberglass and fiberglass rods, used as to enhance rigidity, at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

• Joseph Rodriguez/News & Record

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GREENSBORO — In what would be one of the great ironies of modern science, roadside utility poles someday might be made of coal ash dredged from the storage ponds that have so plagued Duke Energy and other power companies nationwide.

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Research Professor Kunigal Shivakumar at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

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An ongoing leaching experiment on coal ash composite blocks, underwater for over a year, at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

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“These are products that can be made as good as any other material, plus they have added benefits like fire- and insect-resistance,” says Kunigal Shivakumar, director of the Center for Composite Research at N.C. A&T.

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Results from experiments that show coal ash composites don’t burn but wood does, at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

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Coal ash composite between layers of fiberglass and fiberglass rods, used as to enhance rigidity, at the Center for Composite Materials Research lab in the Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center at N.C. A&T, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C.

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