Greening the concrete jungle—how to make environmentally friendly cement
Cement is the world's most widely used material apart from water, largely because it is the key ingredient in concrete, the world's favourite building material.
Cement is the world's most widely used material apart from water, largely because it is the key ingredient in concrete, the world's favourite building material.
Engineering
Aug 22, 2017
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Steel production generates some hundred million tons of steel slag worldwide each year. This giant mountain of leftovers is largely dumped. TU/e professor of building materials, Jos Brouwers, will be working with industrial ...
Engineering
Dec 1, 2016
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When it comes to global warming, most people worry about power plants. Claire White thinks about another kind of plant—those that make cement.
Engineering
Sep 11, 2015
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An EPFL-led consortium is developing a new blend of cement that promises to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by up to 40%. Now it has received financial backing from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation ...
Engineering
Jun 3, 2014
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Emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and cement production reached a new high in 2012, rising 2.2 percent over 2011 due chiefly to an increase in coal-burning China, scientists said Tuesday.
Environment
Nov 19, 2013
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A new research project involving researchers from Bath aims to develop novel self-healing concrete that uses an inbuilt immune system to close its own wounds and prevent deterioration.
Engineering
May 31, 2013
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Geologic carbon storage is the separation and capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from large stationary sources, such as power plants, followed by injection into deep geologic formations. Long-term storage of CO2 pre-supposes ...
Environment
Mar 5, 2013
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More than 140 countries agreed Saturday on a ground-breaking treaty to rein in the use and emission of health-hazardous mercury, the UN said, but environmental activists lamented it did not go far enough.
Environment
Jan 19, 2013
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Cement production is responsible for 5% of carbon dioxide emissions. If we are to invent a "green" cement, we need to understand in more detail the legendary qualities of traditional Portland cement. A research group partly ...
Materials Science
Dec 20, 2012
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Every year several millions of tons of building rubble are produced. An efficient way of recycling concrete – the building material of the 20th and 21st century – does not yet exist. Researchers are working on new recycling ...
Engineering
Oct 1, 2012
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