MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631044472 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Patna, Bihar, on April 7, for 'a fired clay brick with corn cob particle and void pore structure.'
Inventor(s) include Stuti; and Das, Bijay Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a fired clay brick (100) including a clay matrix (102) and a corn cob particle (104) distributed through the clay matrix (102) as a pore-forming constituent prior to firing. Upon firing, the corn cob particle (104) combusts at a temperature in a range of 300 to 600 C to form a void (106) at the location of the corn cob particle (104) through the clay matrix (102), the void (106) constituting the fired-state counterpart of the corn cob particle (104) and together with the corn cob particle (104) defining a pore structure (108) through the clay matrix (102). Unlike conventional fired clay bricks devoid of such pore structure (108), the fired clay brick (100) achieves reduced weight and reduced heat transfer through the clay matrix (102), thereby providing improved thermal insulation performance through controlled void (106) formation using corn cob agricultural waste."
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