Abstract:The cement industry has the potential to become a major consumer of recycled waste materials that are transformed and recycled in various forms as aggregates and pozzolanic materials. These recycled waste materials would otherwise have been dumped in landfill sites, leaving hazardous elements to break down and contaminate the environment. There are several approaches for the reuse of these waste products, especially in relation to clay minerals that can induce pozzolanic reactions of special interest in the cement industry. In the present paper, scientific aspects are discussed in relation to several inert coal-mining wastes and their recycling as alternative sources of future eco-efficient pozzolans, based on activated phyllosilicates. The presence of kaolinite in this waste indicates that thermal treatment at 600˝C for 2 h transformed these minerals into a highly reactive metakaolinite over the first seven days of the pozzolanic reaction. Moreover, high contents of metakaolinite, together with silica and alumina sheet structures, assisted the appearance of layered double hydroxides through metastable phases, forming stratlingite throughout the main phase of the pozzolanic reaction after 28 days (as recommended by the European Standard) as the reaction proceeded.
The study described sought further understanding of the synergies in a mix of CDW pozzolans, containing (calcareous and siliceous) concrete and glass waste, used to prepare ternary eco-cement paste bearing 7% of the binary blend at concrete/glass ratios of 2:1 and 1:2. The mineralogical phases in the 2-day, 28-day, and 90-day cement matrices were identified and monitored using XRF, XRD-Rietveld, SEM-EDX, FT-IR, and NMR. The findings showed that changes in the reaction kinetics in the ternary blended pastes relative to OPC pastes depended on the nature of the recycled concrete and the glass content. Adding the binary mix bearing calcareous concrete (at a ratio of 2:1) favoured ettringite, portlandite, and amorphous phase formation, whilst the blends with siliceous concrete favoured C-S-H gel formation. Monocarboaluminate was detected in the 90-day siliceous concrete and glass pastes in amounts similar to those found in the reference OPC paste.
Calcareous and siliceous CDW wastes from concrete and glass wastes when mixed in binary mixtures has been analyzed in this study. Fine CDW fractions (<5 mm) of different sorts are selected: siliceous waste (HsT), calcareous waste (HcG) and laminated glass waste. The binary mixtures HsT/glass and HcG/glass at mix-proportions of 1:1, 2:1 and 1:2, respectively, are analyzed with a range of characterization techniques (XRD, TG/DTA, SEM-EDX, NMR, FT-IR) in the pure pozzolan/lime system over a reaction time of 90 days. The results showed that the incorporation of highly reactive recycled glass modified the pozzolanic reaction of the binary mixtures with respect to each particular concrete waste (of low activity). The principal mineralogical phases of the reaction were calcite and C–S–H gel, the latter modifying the C/S and A/S ratios as a function of either the silica or the lime-based concrete waste and the glass content of the mixtures. A higher degree of polymerization, morphology, and sodium content of C-H-S gel formed when glass was added.
Abstract. The cement industry involves high-energy consumption that
generates high CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Environmental
concerns can be addressed by replacing parts of Portland cement clinkers with
pozzolanic materials in mortars and concrete. Slag, fly ash and silica fume
are materials considered for the planned replacement. Research studies on
clay minerals, such as kaolinite, are being followed with special attention
by the scientific community and the cement industry. It is well known that these
minerals require an activation process to transform kaolinite (K) into
metakaolinite (MK). MK is an amorphous material from the transformation of K
with high pozzolanic activity, which is its capacity to react with the
portlandite released during the hydration of Portland cement, generating
compounds such as C–S–H gels and some aluminum-phase hydrates. One of the MK
production methods is heat treatment controlled by kaolinite at
temperatures in the range of 600–900 ∘C. Different residues have been used (coal mining,
paper sludge and waste from a drinking water treatment plant) activated at
600 ∘C for 2 h to elaborate blended cements. Due to their good
behaviour as future eco-efficient additions, this research is a study by
x-ray fluorescence (XRF), x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron
microscopy (SEM) of their influence on the performances of blended cement
mixtures (binary and ternary one), with substitutions of pozzolan ratio at
28 days of hydration. The porosity of pozzolanic cements decreases because of the
formation of hydrated phases during pozzolanic reaction.
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