Nowadays hundreds million tons of ash and slag waste (ASW) is produced in Russia yearly. Large territories are needed in order to store such a big waste volume. Besides, it is necessary to conduct special engineering and ecological work at the design and usage stages of this structure. The goal of the research is to outline acceptable ASW utilization methods accumulated in coal burning power station ash dumps and to determine the order of activities to solve the problem. The research methods: experimental where Kansk-Achinsk and Kuznetsk coals are the object of the research. Besides, review of relevant to the problem literature and normative documentation was done to determine activities order, possible ways and limitations of the problem solving. We elucidated that ASW transportation to depleted coal quarries to restore them is essential to arrange in order to solve the problem of ASW utilization. As to new produced ASW, they should be divided into groups according to application field (mostly in construction). The groups correspond to boiler unit load operation. After coal combustion ash is stored in special places (reservoirs, silos). Therefore modern boiler unit might be seen as a production complex of steam and ash and slag material of an adequate quality.

Today resource efficiency technology development in all industries where conventional raw material is being replaced by local natural resources and industrial waste is an essential matter. Along with that most producing operations are overload with wide range of waste produced during technological process. Thermal power stations are real world evidence. Their main waste is ash and slag which accumulated in great amounts in often overfull ash dumps. The goal of present work is to find perspective ash dump waste utilization methods. The study will be based on experimentally obtained data: elementary compound and properties of Kansk-Achinsk brown coal. Research methods: experimental, chemical silicate analysis, mineralogical forms identification within samples by using ASM X-ray diffraction analysis. Experiments resulted with the following conclusions: silica is ash main component, and ash has the form of ore concentrate analogy in a number of elements. We think that ASM main properties which make it useful for utilization are: high content of calcium oxide; high ash sorption properties; ASM radiation safety class which makes them safe to be used in materials, goods, and structures production for residence and public buildings construction and reconstruction; sufficiently high content of individual elements.

Abstract. Currently a lot of power plants have a problem with storage of coal combustion solid by-products (ash and slag). Holding capacity of existing power plants available ash dumps were enlarged and modernized repeatedly. Many plants have two or even three of them. Today new ash dump construction is economically inconvenient due to need to assign new plots of land and their inconveniently big distance from a plant, which increase ash and slag transportation expenses. The goal of our research work is to find promising directions for ash and slag waste mass utilization based on Kuznetsk bituminous coals experimental data on ultimate composition and properties. The experimental research of ash, slag and their mixture samples from ash dumps brought us to conclusion that the most promising direction for these materials application in large quantities is construction industry including road construction. Be-sides, we lined up some other directions for ash, slag, and ash and slag mixture possible application. These directions might not provide mass utilization but they are promising from a point of view of the researched waste properties.