Construcción de Tabiques a partir de Residuos de Desmote del Algodón

Abstract

Mechanical harvesting of cotton improves the profitability of the crop but produces a greater amount of cotton gin waste, leaving in the last campaigns approximately 300000 tons without any final disposal destination.
According to the 2010 Census, the housing deficit in the cotton producing area is significant, and in the province of Santa Fe, the cotton producer departments account up to 40-60 % of households consisting of precarious houses, huts and hovels.
For the construction of panels in the majority of places, ceramic masonry (both common or hollow) is used requiring tasks of a certain complexity and the use of fresh mixes both for its lining and for its construction. The most modern techniques of dry construction, are not widespread in small places and in those with little economic resources.
Boards can be produced from cotton gin waste, that fixed to metal or wooden structures, can conform panels responding to different needs.