Cementless concretes, based on anthropogenic wastes of the Irkutsk Oblast

Abstract

The accepted global trend of transition from a linear economy to a closed-loop one stimulated the development of regulatory documents, such as “Strategy for the development of building materials in the Russian Federation and Irkutsk Oblast”, Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 08/02/2023 No. 2094, both at federal and regional levels. Further, the Baikal interregional scientific and educational centre was established. All this aims at obtaining technologies for developing effective building materials, based on technogenic wastes, and establishing the production. It is planned to obtain effective building materials, based on the accumulated high-tonnage waste of the Usolye-Sibirskoye priority development area, such as ash and slag mixtures of the combined heat and power plant (90 million tons) and lime-containing waste, generated during the production of acetylene at the Khimprom PJSC (more than nine million tons). The paper represents a fundamentally new approach to obtaining artificially synthesised newgrowths of cementless concrete, based on technogenic wastes, which meets the requirements of regulatory standards in terms of frost and water resistance and allows using this concrete in enclosing structures. At a rationally selected ratio between lime-containing wastes and an ash-slag mixture, subject to the pre-established principles of technological preparation in terms of their mechanical activation, mixing technology, conditions and synthesis duration, it is possible to obtain high-quality cementless concrete that meets the basic requirements of regulatory documents for quality indicators.