Building the Pile

Building the compost pile is called stacking, ricking or make-up . At this time the pre-wetted starting materials and the nitrogenous supplements are evenly mixed, watered and assembled into a pile. The size, shape and specific physical properties of this pile are very important for optimum composting. These are  

1 Pile dimensions should be 5-6 feet wide by 4-6 feet high. The shape should be rectangular or square. 

The side of the pile should be vertical and compressed from the outside by 3-6 inches. The internal section should be less dense than the outer section. 

The pile is such that any further increase in size would result in an anaerobic core. 

Throughout the composting process, the size of the pile varies depending on the physical condition of the straw, which provides the pile s basic structure. The structure of the compost refers to the physioal interaction of raw materials, especially the straw fibers. As the straw degrades and The ti-bers flatten out, the structure becomes more dense and the airflow is restricted. The pile becomes fTioire compact and its size is reduced accordingly. Initially the fresh straw allows for generous air penetration which convects away heat and slows microbial action. To counteract this heat loss, the P pile should be.of maximum size and optimum moisture content at make-up. 

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The task of building the piles had been given to the Ministry of Works. When they took the site over, it was in a sorry state. 

They then walked up to the top of Tree Top Hill in the middle of the woods. There was an old workshop near the hill top which in the past had been used by foresters. They had played in the building many times before. When they arrived they found that a group of boys were already there. These boys were about a year or so older than Alexi and his friends, and were trying to set fire to a pile of old leaves and branches against one of the walls of the building. The older boys looked up as they approached. (B)... 

Abstract. Energy Pile System uses building foundation piles as ground heat exchangers. For the new building at Sapporo City University steel foundation pile is decided to be used with the HVAC system. The construction work started in January 2005. Total of 51 steel pipes have been screwed. The paper gives the results from performance analysis and construction phases of the project. 

The layout of building foundation piles always depends on the building structure, geological condition and the type of foundation piles. It is not in regular lattice pattern in most cases. Many existing designing soft wares utilize so-called G-function and they cannot support the irregular layout. The author s... 

If the problem is one of inability to move air through the pile due to obstmctions or dirt, more drastic measures may be required, such as early marketing of the potatoes or movement to a different storage building. If ventilation stress is the culprit, an increase in air supply will result in an immediate response to corrective action, but the return to acceptable sugar levels may be slow. 

If the destruction of materials takes place on an artillery range or similar site which is far away from magazines or other buildings, the material may be piled directly on the ground, covered with a 2-ft layer of earth, and exploded... 

The climate prohibits the operation and maintenance of outdoor process equipment, therefore, nearly all equipment is inside heated and ventilated buildings. The result Is modular construction of steel frsme buildings in fabrication yards in the lower 48 states with module interconnections made in the field. All facilities are built on gravel pads and the modules are set on piles about 8ft. above the gravel. 

Allowing DRI to become wet does not necessarily cause it to overheat. When large piles of DRI are wetted with rain, the corrosion reactions are limited to the outer surface area of the pile and the resultant heat from the corrosion reactions is dissipated into the atmosphere. However, if water penetrates into the pile from the bottom, or if wet DRI is covered with dry DRI, the heat from corrosion reactions can build up inside the pile to the point where rapid reoxidation begins. Corrosion occurs significandy faster with salt water than with fresh water. DRI saturated with water can cause steam explosions if it is batch charged into an electric arc furnace. 

Fig. 21 shows the building plan of the building at the beginning of the war, planned and constructed as a normal crematorium, with a morgue.162 This also explains the piles of dirt, which were intended to ensure an even, cool temperature. For the same reason, the partition between the morgue and the oven room is double-walled with a heat-insulating air-barrier in between. 

Men won t burn without women. [...] [T ]he bodies of women were used to kindle, or, more accurately put, to build the fires among the piles of corpses [...] Blood, too, was found to be first-class combustion material. [...] Young corpses bum up quicker than old ones. [...] [W] ith the help of gasoline and the bodies of the fatter females, the pile of corpses finally burst into flames 91 Yitzhak Arad, trying to sound scientific, reports ... 

The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing "absolute" about it. Science does not rest upon rock-bottom. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or "given" base and when we cease our attempts to drive our piles into a deeper layer, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that they are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being. 

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