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Development of Eco-cement from Recycled Low-Carbon Footprint By-product

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International RILEM Conference on Synergising Expertise towards Sustainability and Robustness of Cement-based Materials and Concrete Structures (SynerCrete 2023)

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For several decades, the cement industry has been actively seeking alternative raw materials to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. In pursuit of partial replacements for clinker, worldwide research has focused primarily on industrial (fly ash, Si-Mn slag, fired clay-based) and agroforestry (rice husk, sugar cane) waste. The common denominator in all such waste, its pozzolanicity, determines mechanical performance and durability throughout the service life of the cement produced. In this study, two types of industrial waste (construction and demolition waste and biomass waste) were added separately or jointly in different proportions to Portland clinker to ascertain the effect on the rheological, physical and mechanical properties of the resulting binary and ternary eco cements. The use of biomass waste and the joint addition of both kind of wastes were observed to yield cements in which the fresh and hardened properties of the new eco-cement were not significantly lower than in conventional binders and these binders could be apt to use in the manufacture of cement-based material (mortar or concrete) with low-carbon footprint .

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Acknowledgements

This study was conducted under grant PID2019-107238RB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, by ‘ERDF A way of making Europe’. Funding was also possible thanks to funding granted by the Consejería de Economía, Ciencia y Agenda Digital de la Junta de Extremadura and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union through the reference grants GR 18122 and IB20131. Author Paula Velardo benefitted from pre-doctoral grant FPU17/06093 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ‘ESF Investing in your future’.

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  1. Escuela Politécnica de Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, Avda. de la Universidad, s/n, 10003, Cáceres, Spain

    Paula Velardo, Marta Barroso, Isabel F. Sáez del Bosque & César Medina Martínez

  2. Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), c/ Serrano Galvache, 4, 28033, Madrid, Spain

    María I. Sánchez de Rojas

  3. SOSMAT, University of Extremadura, UEx-CSIC Partnering Unit, Cáceres, Spain

    María I. Sánchez de Rojas & César Medina Martínez

  4. Magnel-Vandepitte Laboratory for Structural Engineering and Building Materials, Ghent University, 9052, Ghent, Belgium

    Nele De Belie

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Velardo, P., Barroso, M., Sáez del Bosque, I.F., Sánchez de Rojas, M.I., De Belie, N., Martínez, C.M. (2023). Development of Eco-cement from Recycled Low-Carbon Footprint By-product. In: Jędrzejewska, A., Kanavaris, F., Azenha, M., Benboudjema, F., Schlicke, D. (eds) International RILEM Conference on Synergising Expertise towards Sustainability and Robustness of Cement-based Materials and Concrete Structures. SynerCrete 2023. RILEM Bookseries, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33187-9_12

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