scholarly journals Use of Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum, Construction and Demolition Waste, and Oil Palm Waste Trunks to Produce Concrete Bricks

Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalitsuda Phutthimethakul ◽  
Park Kumpueng ◽  
Nuta Supakata
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Water Absorption ◽  
Flue Gas ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Flue Gas Desulfurization ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Fgd Gypsum ◽  
Concrete Production

This research aims to study the utilization of waste from power plants, construction and demolition, and agriculture by varying the ratios of flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum, construction and demolition waste (CDW), and oil palm trunks (OPT) in concrete production. This research used these as the raw materials for the production of concrete bricks of 15 × 15 × 15 cm. There were 12 ratios of concrete brick, fixing 5.5 wt% of FGD gypsum to replace Portland cement and substituting coarse sand with 0 wt%, 25 wt%, 50 wt%, or 75 wt% of CDW, and gravel with 0 wt%, 0.5 wt%, and 1 wt% of OPT. The initial binder:fine aggregate:coarse aggregate ratio was 1:2:4 and the water to cement ratio was 0.5, curing in water at room temperature for 28 days. Then, all concrete brick specimens were tested for compressive strength and water absorption. From the experiment, it was found that the highest compressive strength of concrete brick specimens was 45.18 MPa, which was produced from 5.5% gypsum without CDW and OPT, while 26.84 MPa was the lowest compressive strength obtained from concrete bricks produced from 5.5% FGD gypsum, 75% CDW, and 1% OPT. In terms of usage, all proportions can be applied in construction and building work because the compressive strength and water absorption were compliant with the Thai Industrial Standard TIS 57-2530 and TIS 60-2516.

scholarly journals Research On Recycling Of Hardened Mortar From Construction And Demolition Waste

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Irina Smical ◽  
F. Filip-Văcărescu ◽  
G. Danku ◽  
V. Paşca
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Standard Sample ◽  
Testing Machine ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Concrete Production ◽  
Compression Resistance

Abstract The recycling issues related to the construction and demolition (C&D) wastes in the sustainable development and the circular economy context represent a continuous challenge for researchers. This paper reveals the possibility to recycle the hardened mortar recovered from C&D wastes. Thus, the recovered hardened mortar with grains size less than 16 mm was used in the concrete structure. The compression resistance of the final concrete was determined using a Heckert 3000 KN testing machine and the results showed a better compressive strength for the samples with C&D waste content than the standard sample of about 1.19 times. This is a good premise for improving the researches related to C&D waste usage in concrete production.

scholarly journals Study on Preparation of Brick Blocks by Using Construction Waste and Sludge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raguraman Vaithiyasubramanian ◽  
Deepasree Sriniva ◽  
Arul Kumar Kanagarajan
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Fly Ash ◽  
Water Absorption ◽  
Bulk Density ◽  
Chemical Characterization ◽  
Waste Utilization ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Sludge Waste

Abstract Sewage waste is a crucial factor in the disposal and also harmful to the environment. The growing demand for waste utilization is construction and demolition waste. This study aims in preparing a brick using construction and demolition waste and sludge waste. The materials such as fly-ash, cement, construction, and demolition waste, and sludge waste are used. The sludge content was added at constant percentage of 30%, 40% and 50% with different proportions such of fly-ash, cement and demolition waste of 3:2:2, 1:3:2, 2:1:2, 2:3:2, 2:3:1, 2:2:1, 2:2:3, 3:2:1, and 1.5:1.5:2 respectively. The physical characteristics such as compressive strength, bulk density, and chemical characterization such as water absorption, pH, and detection of heavy metals were carried out. The test results infer that increase in the content of sludge, the strength decreased. Maximum compressive strength of 14.5 Mpa was achieved for the ratio of 2:3:2 at 30% of sludge. The maximum bulk density was achieved at 30% of sludge. This was attributed due to the presence of organic properties in the brick. Moreover, the water absorption increases with an increase in the percentage of sludge.

scholarly journals Influence of Calcined Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum and Calcium Aluminate on the Strength and AFt Evolution of Fly Ash Blended Concrete under Steam Curing

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 7171
Author(s):  
Yueran Zhang ◽  
Heng Zhang ◽  
Xiong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Fly Ash ◽  
Calcium Aluminate ◽  
Flue Gas ◽  
Flue Gas Desulfurization ◽  
Steam Curing ◽  
Formation Kinetic ◽  
Fgd Gypsum ◽  
Active Calcium ◽  
Early Strength

In order to improve the early strength of fly ash blended cement concrete under steam curing conditions, fly ash was partly substituted by calcined flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum and active calcium aluminate. The effect of the composition and curing condition on the workability, mechanical property, and volume stability was systematically evaluated. The variety of hydration products and the evolution was determined by XRD to explore the formation kinetic of ettringite. Results show that the addition of calcined FGD gypsum and active calcium aluminate is able to improve the early compressive strength but using more FGD gypsum and a high sulfur aluminum ratio leads to a reduction in compressive strength from 28 to 90 days due to the increment of ettringite and crystallization of dihydrate gypsum. Both the free expansion ratio and limited expansion exhibited a continuous increasement with time, especially in the first 14 days of testing. Cracks were not observed on the surface of samples immersed in water for a year. The improvement of strength and shrinkage resistance is mainly due to the formation of ettringite generated before 14 days and the precipitation was highly limited from 14 to 28 days. Moreover, the characteristic peak of gypsum appeared after 28 days, indicating the conversion of partial of calcined FGD gypsum. The work presented here provides a new solution for improving the early strength of fly ash concrete without reducing the later strength and consuming extra energy.

Effect of Using Flue-Gas Desulfurization Gypsum and Water Treatment Sludge on Compressive Strength of Cement Mortar

2021 ◽  
Vol 897 ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
Weerawan Chalermsakulkit ◽  
Nuta Supakata
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Flue Gas ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Cement Mortar ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
Flue Gas Desulfurization ◽  
Fine Aggregate ◽  
Water Treatment Sludge ◽  
Fgd Gypsum

Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) is a material that is widely used in construction. The production of OPC creates large amounts of carbon dioxide. Mortar is one of the building materials that uses cement as the main ingredient, including the use of natural sand as a fine aggregate. Therefore, to reduce the use of cement and natural materials, flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum was used instead of OPC, and water treatment sludge (WTS) was used instead of fine sand to create cement mortar. This research used both materials as ingredients in the production of cement mortar and helped to reduce waste in the environment. The objective is to study the suitable ratios of FGD gypsum and WTS in the production of cement mortar. As for the binder, FGD gypsum was used instead of OPC at 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40%. Instead of fine sand, WTS was used at 0%, 5%, 10%, and 15%. The cement mortar was tested after 7 days for compressive strength. It was found that the cement mortar made with increased ratios of FGD gypsum and WTS decreased in compressive strength.

scholarly journals Feasibility of Using Nanoparticles of SiO2 to Improve the Performance of Recycled Aggregate Concrete

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaleel H. Younis ◽  
Shelan M. Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Water Absorption ◽  
Splitting Tensile Strength ◽  
Recycled Aggregate Concrete ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Recycled Aggregate ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Aggregate Concrete ◽  
Natural Aggregate

The aim of this paper was to examine the feasibility of using nanoparticles of SiO2 (nanosilica) to improve the performance of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) containing recycled aggregate (RA) derived from processing construction and demolition waste of concrete buildings. The examined properties include compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and water absorption. The study also includes examining the microstructure of RA and RAC with and without nanoparticles of SiO2. In total, nine mixes were investigated. Two mixes with RA contents of 50% and 100% were investigated and for each RA content; three mixes were prepared with three different nanoparticles dosages 0.4%, 0.8%, and 1.2% (by mass of cement). A control mix with natural aggregate (NA) was also prepared for comparison reasons. The results show that nanoparticles of silica can improve the compressive strength, tensile strength, reduce the water absorption, and modify the microstructure of RAC.

scholarly journals Recycled Refractory Brick as Aggregate for Eco-friendly Concrete Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-49
Author(s):  
Mohammed KHATTAB ◽  
Samya HACHEMI ◽  
Mohammad Fawzi Al Ajlouni
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity ◽  
Ultrasonic Pulse ◽  
Pulse Velocity ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Refractory Brick ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Concrete Production ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Natural Aggregates

 The amount of construction and demolition waste continues to increase year by year.These wastes have a significant harmful influence on the environment; refractory brick is among of these wastes. this paper concerns the reuse of refractory brick wastes to produce an eco-friendly concrete. To achieve this objective,coarse and fine Natural Aggregates (NA) were partially replaced with recycled Refractory Brick Aggregates (RBA). According to the design of experiment, two families of mixes were prepared and tested: the first mixes was made with coarse and fine NA (as reference concrete) and the second mixes made by replacing 20% of coarse and fine NA by coarse and fine RBA. For each of the mentioned families, three cement dosages of 350 kg/m3 , 400 kg/m3 , 450 kg/m3 were investigated. A series of experiments including water porosity, density, Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV) and compressive strength were assessed. Observed results indicate that the use of coarse and fine RBA had a relatively influence on the water porosity and UPV of concrete. However, the use of coarse and fine RBA produces a slightly decreased the density of concrete (below 2%). Moreover, the use of coarse and fine RBA in concrete improved the compressive strength. Hence, coarse and fine RBA can be successfully used to produce concrete with acceptable properties.

scholarly journals Environmental Evaluation of Gypsum Plasterboard Recycling

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Karin Weimann ◽  
Christian Adam ◽  
Matthias Buchert ◽  
Juergen Sutter
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Impact Categories ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Environmental Evaluation ◽  
Fgd Gypsum ◽  
Recycled Gypsum ◽  
The Impact

Gypsum is widely used in the construction sector, and its worldwide consumption has been increasing for several decades. Depending on the lifetime of the used gypsum products, an increase of gypsum in construction and demolition waste follows. Especially against the background of a circular economy, the recycling of waste gypsum is of growing importance. However, the use of recycled gypsum only makes sense if it is environmentally friendly. Therefore, an evaluation of the environmental impacts of industrial-scale processing for the recycling of post-consumer gypsum waste was conducted. The evaluation was performed with an established life cycle assessment software. Original data provided by the industry and complementary data from a database for life cycle assessments were used for the calculations. Two scenarios for recycled gypsum with different transportation distances were calculated. These results were compared with the results of the environmental evaluation of gypsum derived from coal-fired power plants (FGD gypsum) and natural gypsum. The results showed that the utilization of recycled gypsum can be environmentally advantageous compared to the use of natural gypsum or FGD gypsum, especially in the impact categories of land transformation and resource consumption (abiotic depletion potential). For most environmental impact categories, the specific transportation distances have a strong influence.

Use of Construction and Demolition Waste in Lateritic Concrete

2014 ◽  
Vol 600 ◽  
pp. 386-395
Author(s):  
Taíssa Guedes Cândido ◽  
Yane Coutinho ◽  
Milton Bezerra das Chagas Filho
Keyword(s):  
Coarse Aggregate ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Construction And Demolition Waste ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Hardened Concrete ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Concrete Production

In recent decades the problem of construction and demolition waste has been receiving more attention due to possible ecological and economic damage caused by them. This is because they are produced in large quantities and often receive inadequate disposal, being deposited illegally in vacant lots, public places and even in areas of environmental preservation. The practice of recycling of construction and demolition waste (CDW) by construction is an alternative that minimizes the amount of waste generated and the impacts caused by them. Moreover, the introduction of alternative materials might reduce the production costs of construction. In Brazil, there is great availability of lateritic concretions. This material, according to some studies, proved to be a viable alternative to be used as coarse aggregate in concrete production. In this study, it is used the CDW as a filler to replace 10% of Portland cement and, as coarse aggregate, lateritic concretions. Tests of physical properties of coarse and fine aggregates and determination of the mechanical strength of hardened concrete were made. The construction and demolition waste used as filler to replace the mass of cement in the mixture proved to be a viable alternative.

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