Green Concrete by Replacing Coarse Aggregate with Cupola Slag for Environmental Protection

Abstract

Recently world leads to higher infrastructural growth including developing countries like India leads to higher consumption of construction material such as cement and concrete. For production/manufacturing of cement and concrete requires huge amount of natural resources that leads to rapid depletion of natural resources and emission of GHG’s and other harmful pollutants in environment which are responsible for quick climate changes and also create a perilous threat to human lives, ecology and environment. So to preserve the environment, one should preserve the natural resources. In this regards, authors attempted use of cupola slag aggregate (CSA) as replacement of naturally available coarse aggregates. A comparative study shows results for control mix and cupola slag aggregate concrete. From the study, one can conclude that, cupola slag can be used as coarse aggregate effectively in structural as well as in plain concrete and suggest such various other alternative materials prove very effective to slowing down of climate changes and preserving natural resources and environment.