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Low Energy/Low Carbon Eco-Cementitious Binders as an Alternative to Ordinary Portland Cement

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Cement production is an exothermic process and contributes approximately 8% of world’s total anthropogenic CO2 emission. The growing demand for cement and increasing concerns over environmental sustainability has prompted the cement community to search for alternative, eco-cementitious binders. In the last few decades, several eco-cementitious binders have been proposed with lower embodied energy and reduced carbon footprint than that of ordinary Portland cement (OPC). This chapter focuses about six promising alternative cement binders which have the potential to be adopted in varieties of building and infrastructure projects. The chapter briefs about the involved cement chemistry, characteristics, raw material used, their availability, and current application of (a) calcium sulfoaluminate, (b) alkali activated, (c) magnesium oxide, and (d) limestone calcined clay cement. Besides that, chapter also presents the critical appraisal on CO2 reduction potential of the studied alternative cements, current challenges, and future direction of research. The scientific value of this chapter was to serve the substantial base of knowledge to the students, researchers, and practicing professionals for the development and conventional application of eco-cementitious binders.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, New Delhi, Government of India for the sustained financial support to the project entitled, “Development of low energy- low carbon ECO cementitious binders via synergistic use of low graded industrial wastes for sustainable development” (File Number: 19-45/2018/RE; Project No.: GAP0090).

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    Abhishek Srivastava, Rajesh Kumar & Rajni Lakhani

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Srivastava, A., Kumar, R., Lakhani, R. (2021). Low Energy/Low Carbon Eco-Cementitious Binders as an Alternative to Ordinary Portland Cement. In: Hussain, C.M., Di Sia, P. (eds) Handbook of Smart Materials, Technologies, and Devices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58675-1_143-1

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