End-of-Life Materials Used as Supplementary Cementitious Materials in the Concrete Industry

Adrian Ionut Nicoara; Alexandra Elena Stoica; Mirijam Vrabec; Nastja Šmuc Rogan; Saso Sturm; Cleva Ow-Yang; Mehmet Ali Gulgun; Zeynep Basaran Bundur; Ion Ciuca; Bogdan Stefan Vasile

doi:10.3390/ma13081954

End-of-Life Materials Used as Supplementary Cementitious Materials in the Concrete Industry

Materials (Basel). 2020 Apr 22;13(8):1954. doi: 10.3390/ma13081954.

Authors

Adrian Ionut Nicoara^{1

2}, Alexandra Elena Stoica^{1

2}, Mirijam Vrabec³, Nastja Šmuc Rogan³, Saso Sturm⁴, Cleva Ow-Yang^{5

6}, Mehmet Ali Gulgun^{5

6}, Zeynep Basaran Bundur⁷, Ion Ciuca⁸, Bogdan Stefan Vasile^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 011061 Bucharest, Romania.
² National Research Center for Micro and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.
³ Department of Geology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁴ Department for Nanostructured Materials, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁵ Materials Science and Nano-Engineering Program, Sabanci University, Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Caddesi No:27, 34956 Tuzla-İstanbul, Turkey.
⁶ Nanotechnology Application Center (SUNUM), Sabanci University, Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Caddesi No:27, 34956 Tuzla-İstanbul, Turkey.
⁷ Department of Civil Engineering, Ozyegin University, Nişantepe District, Orman Street, Çekmeköy, 34794 Istanbul, Turkey.
⁸ Faculty Materials Science and Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, 060042, Romania.

Abstract

A sustainable solution for the global construction industry can be partial substitution of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) by use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) sourced from industrial end-of-life (EOL) products that contain calcareous, siliceous and aluminous materials. Candidate EOL materials include fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), natural pozzolanic materials like sugarcane bagasse ash (SBA), palm oil fuel ash (POFA), rice husk ash (RHA), mine tailings, marble dust, construction and demolition debris (CDD). Studies have revealed these materials to be cementitious and/or pozzolanic in nature. Their use as SCMs would decrease the amount of cement used in the production of concrete, decreasing carbon emissions associated with cement production. In addition to cement substitution, EOL products as SCMs have also served as coarse and also fine aggregates in the production of eco-friendly concretes.

Keywords: cement; circular economy; construction and demolition debris (CDD); construction debris; eco-friendly concretes; fly ash (FA); marble dust; mine tailings; palm oil fuel ash (POFA); recycling; rice husk ash (RHA); sewage sludge ash (SSA) and sugarcane bagasse ash (SBA); silica fume (SF).

Publication types

Review