Developing a Byproduct Materials Information System for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

Kentucky has numerous coal-fired, electric generating facilities and, as a result, there are abundant byproduct materials being produced from these facilities that have environmental, engineering, and economic potential as materials for use in common highway construction and maintenance related activities throughout the Commonwealth. Other byproduct materials are being produced and are available that may have potential uses as well. Although large quantities of byproduct materials are produced in Kentucky and many of those materials have positive or neutral environmental impacts and excellent engineering properties, a formal regulatory framework for selecting, characterizing, recovering, and recycling these material types does not exist. Fundamentally, the lack of a regulatory protocol is an obstacle to recycling byproducts and discourages the use of byproduct materials by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. During this research effort, a byproduct materials information system was developed to guide the selection and use of ponded ashes in highway construction and maintenance activities. The information system was designed to be modular so that additional recovered and recyclable materials could be included within the matrices as these materials are evaluated at some future date. It is fully anticipated that the byproduct information system eventually will encompass any recovered or recycled materials that are shown through the prescribed method of evaluation to possess satisfactory environmental, engineering and economic characteristics that make them suitable for use in highway construction and maintenance activities.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.13023/KTC.RR.2007.19
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  Kentucky Transportation Center
  College of Engineering, 176 Raymond Building
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506-0281

  Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

  200 Mero Street
  Frankfort, KY  United States  40622

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Hunsucker, David Q
  • Jones, Justin
  • Hopkins, Tommy C
  • Sun, Charlie
• Publication Date: 2007-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: 70p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bottom ash; Fly ash; Highway maintenance; Information systems; Recycled materials; Recycling; Road construction; Waste products (Materials)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Coal combustion byproducts
• Geographic Terms: Kentucky
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; I30: Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01099865
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: KTC-07-19/SPR 296-05-1F
• Contract Numbers: KY SPR-06-313
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 22 2008 4:03PM