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The construction industry together with the construction materials industry are some of the most important consumers of natural resources. This industry has an important effect on the unsustainable development trend of the global economy. A sustainable approach to mortars, precisely from the perspective of the fact that it is an intensely used material in construction works, brings a contribution to sustainable development efforts in the construction industry.
Paper on the other hand is a material that is used in bulk. Paper recycling is relatively easy, but since it is not a material that can be recycled indefinitely, large amounts of waste are produced during the process. This article addresses the issue of using waste from cellulose particles processing, as a substitute for cement in mortars.
The importance of reducing the amount of cement used annually in construction works is supported by the fact that cement production contributes eight percent to annual CO2 emissions. Green cement is a must in order to achieve the objectives of sustainable development in construction.
Following the experimental program, it is found that the replacement of an percentage of cement with paper ash brings many advantages.
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This work was supported by the Post-Doctoral Program ‘‘Entrepreneurial competences and excellence research in doctoral and postdoctoral programs - ANTREDOC’’, project co-funded from the European Social Fund POCU/380/6/13/123927.
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Țințișan, M.L., Siomin, AC., Zaharie, A., Manea, D.L. (2022). Paper Ash Used as Substitute of Cement, in Cement Mixtures. In: Moldovan, L., Gligor, A. (eds) The 15th International Conference Interdisciplinarity in Engineering. Inter-Eng 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 386. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93817-8_13
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