Evaluating The Potential Benefits Of Permeable Paving Surfaces To Improve Stormwater Runoff Quality
Porous asphalt (PA) is an invention that benefited engineers due to the presence of interconnected air voids that allow stormwater runoff to infiltrate through, hence reducing the runoff volume. This reduction helped minimizing lowering the effect of flash flood. This research looked into the pot...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/58108/ http://eprints.usm.my/58108/1/Evaluating%20The%20Potential%20Benefits%20Of%20Permeable%20Paving%20Surfaces%20To%20Improve%20Stormwater%20Runoff%20Quality.pdf |
| Summary: | Porous asphalt (PA) is an invention that benefited engineers due to the presence of
interconnected air voids that allow stormwater runoff to infiltrate through, hence reducing
the runoff volume. This reduction helped minimizing lowering the effect of flash flood.
This research looked into the potential of porous asphalt as the surface materials. The
Public Work Department (PWD) Gradation B was considered in this study. However,
some alteration of the gradation based on Dutch PA 16 was carried out and asphalt
mixtures samples were prepared to assess the performance. Change in percent passing
from 7.5% to 15% at 2.36 mm sieve size showed higher stability value as compared to
the original gradation. The upper and lower limits of design binder content for the
modified PA gradation range from 4.3 to 5.7%. The stability, abrasion loss, and binder
drain down tests results confirmed to the specifications. However, further study is
required to improve the air voids content which recorded less than 18% air voids (15.6%)
Alternatively, this study also successfully innovates the portable hollow brick maker,
which promotes water infiltration through the brick. This man-powered machine used
hydraulic press mechanism which required minimum work but greater force output to
produce the brick. This study also introduced a laboratory scale water flow simulator. The
porous asphalt was used as the surface layer to study the efficiency of a few filtration
materials on removing heavy metals which are lead, zinc, copper, cadmium and
chromium. The filtration system composed of three alternatives materials which are
powdered activated carbon, peat soil and limestone. Each material has been tested on their
efficiency on removing heavy metals in the synthetic water after subjected to filtration.
Powdered activated carbon has been proven to be the most effective material in removing
heavy metals which then followed by limestone and peat soil. |
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