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Future resources for eco-building materials: I. Metallurgical slag

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In order to make an effectivily recycle use of iron and steel slags that are main industrial wastes generated in Chinese metallurgical industry, the current technologies for reprocessing and recycling these wastes into eco-building materials were reviewed, such as preparing cement-steel slag blended cement with steel slag after metal recovery, using the fine powder of blast furnace slag (BFS) for manufacturing slag cement and high performance concrete. A further research on using these available resources more efficiently were discussed.

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  1. State Key Lab of Western Architecture & Technology (Cultivating Base), Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, 710055, China

    Delong Xu  (徐德龙) & Hui Li

  2. Institute of Powder Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, 710055, China

    Delong Xu  (徐德龙) & Hui Li

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Funded by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 50872105) and Shaanxi Provincial Grand-Tech Project of China (No. 2008ZKC04-04)

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Xu, D., Li, H. Future resources for eco-building materials: I. Metallurgical slag. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 24, 451–456 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-009-3451-z

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