Waste recycling and reuse is an important component of sustainability Extensive research is being conducted to address this issue by incorporating industrial by product such as steel slag copper slag fly ash ferro chrome slag and so on into the construction industry Steel slag which is mostly calcium carbonate is created as a by product of the steel
Steel slag is a byproduct from either the conversion of iron to steel in a basic oxygen furnace or the melting of scrap to make steel in an electric arc furnace Talling B and Bradstetr J 1989 Present and future of alkali activated slag concrete Proc 3rd Int Conf on the Use of Fly Ash Silica Fume Slag & Natural
Various researchers are developing efforts to integrate waste and by products as alternative materials in road construction and maintenance reducing environmental impacts and promoting a circular economy Among the alternative materials that several authors have studied regarding their use as partial or total substitutes for natural aggregates in the asphalt
Steel slag is not recommended for use in rigid confined applications such as concrete aggregate base or fill under structures or floor slabs or backfill against structures or bridge abutments Durability The slags are highly resistant to weathering action such as freezing and thawing
• In concrete PLC also performs well with slag or fly ash at normal replacement levels • In many cases TypeIL SCM perform better at early age than Type I SCM due to nucleation effects of fine limestone particles and due to formation of additional carbo aluminates
Piles of steel slag a solid waste generated from the iron and steel industry could be seen due to no utility found for the past century Steel slag has now gained much attention because of its new applications The properties of slag greatly influence its use and thus had got varied applications The chemical composition of steel slag varies as the mineral composition
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Abstract The increasing demand for the development and expansion of transport infrastructures requires alternative solutions that are economically and environmentally viable to provide the necessary raw materials Transport infrastructures consume a large amount of natural aggregates; however from a circular economy perspective industrial by products can
Steel slag is a solid waste derived from the steel making process which accounts for approximately 15% of the total crude steel output Furlani et al 2010; Pang et al 2016 By 2016 approximately 832 million tons of steel were produced in China with an annual output of more than 100 million tons Hasanbeigi et al 2016 which exceeded half of the total
—Roller compacted concrete p 20 —Soil stabilization p 20 —Tilt up p 21 —Waste stabilization p 21 —Miscellaneous p 21 CHAPTER 9—SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT p 21 —Slag cement and sustainability p 21 —High volume slag cement use in concrete p 21 —Life cycle inventory for slag cement
Slag cement is commonly found in ready mixed concrete precast concrete masonry soil cement and high temperature resistant building products Slag Cement s History Slag cement use can be traced to the 1700s when the material was combined with lime to make mortars
Utilization of steel slag in construction industry as aggregate and cementitious material for the applications toward bricks production asphalt mixes radiation shielding concrete foam concrete
With respect to the mechanical properties durability and thermal behavior ground granulated blast furnace slag GGBS delineates a rational way to develop sustainable cement and concrete
Steel slag SS accounting for about 15 20% of the total steel amount has been produced in huge quantities worldwide Han et al 2015; Shi 2004 Initially SS was treated as a waste material and disposed of as landfill which not only took up land resources but also severely impacted the natural environment and human health due to the highly alkaline leachates Birat
Steel slag is not recommended for use in rigid confined applications such as concrete aggregate base or fill under structures or floor slabs or backfill against structures or bridge abutments Durability The slags are highly resistant to weathering action such as freezing and thawing
Steel slag is a typical metallurgical byproduct produced during the iron refining process which contains high contents of CaO SiO 2 and a small amount of Al 2 O 3 is estimated that the global output of steel slag in 2018 was on the order of 190 million to 290 million tons [1] In China the annual discharge of steel slag exceeded 100 million tons whereas the
This paper explores the current uses of SS steel slag in concrete and its possible use as cementitious material Due to its huge production and hazardous effects due to dumping of slag there is
3rd International Balkans Conference on Challenges of Civil Engineering 3 BCCCE 19 21 May 2016 Epoka University Tirana Albania 283 Steel Slag Concrete for Pavement Construction Ioanna Papayianni1 Eleftherios Anastasiou1 Michael Papachristoforou1 Alexandros Liapis1 1Laboratory of Building Materials Department of Civil Engineering Aristotle
The present work reviews the various mineral admixtures used in concrete which modifies the concrete properties In this study cement is partially or completely replaced by different mineral admixtures such as fly ash silica fume rice husk ash Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag palm oil fuel ash and metakaolin The strength obtained is different for different
Request PDF Slag uses in making an ecofriendly and sustainable concrete A review A single ton of ordinary Portland cement OPC demands around G Joule energy and creates about a ton of
About 100 150 kg SS is co produced for 1000 kg steel and a huge amount of slag storage is generated annually worldwide Despite the problems associated with SS this storage should be evaluated for sustainable development and it has many possibilities for use in the cement and concrete industry Lizarazo Marriaga et al 2011 Millions of tons of SS are
Generally concrete containing around 65 85% of its volume by aggregate Meaningful that the properties of concrete are mainly dependent on the quality and type of aggregate [1] It is completely known that aggregate is an inactive material but it is actually inactive due to its physical and limited chemical properties that can impact the behavior of
The importance of understanding slags their reusability their specific roles and improvements in functions to lead a significant reduction in slag volumes in iron and steel industry is discussed