Development and Application of Low-Carbon Cementitious Material
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2022) | Viewed by 2746
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Dear Colleagues,
Every year, over 10 billion tons of industrial solid waste are discharged by the mining, metallurgy, chemical, power and structural engineering industries. Most commonly, this solid waste is disposed of by landfill. However, this not only occupies land but also generates increasingly severe pressures on the environment and, moreover, risks becoming a bottleneck for the sustainable development of society. Meanwhile, to enable the construction of urban developments and infrastructure, over 10 billion tons of natural resources are consumed annually in the production of building materials. This causes massive emissions of sulfur oxides, carbon oxides and dust—and these emissions are becoming an urgent problem. In order to facilitate resource recycling and improve environmental protection, it is thus a major strategic priority to convert huge quantities of solid waste with potential hydration ability—such as fly ash, blast furnace slag, steel slag or waste concrete—into low-carbon cementitious materials, which can then be used to produce building materials. Low-carbon cementitious materials have recently become a hotspot of global research, thanks to the outstanding advantages they offer in terms of low energy consumption and efficient resource recycling. However, some major problems still remain to be solved, including issues related to raw materials, curing, treatment technologies, equipment and performance. I would like to invite you to focus on problems such as these when investigating the potential applications of low-carbon cementitious materials.
Prof. Dr. Bohumír Strnadel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cement
- concrete
- mortar
- industrial solid waste
- fly ash
- slag
- mineral admixtures
- alkali activated cementitious materials
- sulfur oxide
- carbon oxide
- dust emission
- energy saving
- concrete curing conditions
- treatment technology
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