Carbonated Concrete Slurry Waste as Supplementary Cementitious Material
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Abstract
Concrete slurry waste is generated at concrete plants and generally re-used in new batches of concretes. Due to the presence of hydrated cement paste it has the potential to be carbonated prior to re-use in order not only to store CO2, but also to enhance its reactivity in blends with cement. In this study, a concrete slurry waste obtained at a ready-mix concrete plant was investigated. For accelerated carbonation, a wet process was used at laboratory scale. The carbonated product was dried afterwards, characterized and used as supplementary cementitious material. When carbonated, the hydrate phases of the concrete slurry waste decomposed to calcite, gypsum and a silica-alumina gel. When blended with Portland cement (30% replacement by mass) early hydration kinetics was accelerated by the carbonated concrete slurry waste. The pozzolanic reaction of the silica-alumina gel consumed a significant part of the portlandite and showed a slightly positive contribution to compressive strength compared to inert quartz powder and to the uncarbonated concrete slurry. This offers the use of carbonated concrete slurry waste to store CO2 in concrete with the additional benefit of reducing the cement content.
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OpenAlex topics: Concrete and Cement Materials Research · Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance · Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
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Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Neustark AG, Bern, Switzerland.
School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, UK.
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