The chemical and physical origin of incineration ash reactivity in cementitious systems
Abstract
Incorporating industrial byproducts and waste in concrete is the key to reducing landfill usage as well as lowering the environmental footprint of cement industry. An emerging industrial byproduct which can partly replace cement is the Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash (MSWI ash: residue that is left after incineration of municipal solid waste in a Waste-to-Energy facility). These ashes are predominantly calcium-rich; however, they also contain additional elements whose speciation is not known. These elements can significantly alter the hydration characteristics of a cementitious system. Here, our results suggest these ashes can accelerate as well as retard cement hydration. Specifically, Pb, Br, S, Ca, and Cl appear to accelerate cement hydration, whereas Cu, Fe, Al, Ti, Si, K, Zn, and Sr appear to retard cement hydration. Changes in hydration characteristics can have a strong bearing on the physical characteristics of cementitious systems incorporating incineration ashes. Thus, to selectively screen ashes that synergistically enhance the physical characteristics, we introduce a novel “Incineration Ash Coefficient (IAC),” which shows a strong correlation with the compressive strength (R2=0.79) of cement-ash binary mixtures.
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- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
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- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1828778
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- AR0001401
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Resources, Conservation and Recycling
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 177; Journal ID: ISSN 0921-3449
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 42 ENGINEERING; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; Cement; Waste to Energy; Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Ashes
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Kumar, Vikram, and Garg, Nishant. The chemical and physical origin of incineration ash reactivity in cementitious systems. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106009.
Kumar, Vikram, & Garg, Nishant. The chemical and physical origin of incineration ash reactivity in cementitious systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106009
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title = {The chemical and physical origin of incineration ash reactivity in cementitious systems},
author = {Kumar, Vikram and Garg, Nishant},
abstractNote = {Incorporating industrial byproducts and waste in concrete is the key to reducing landfill usage as well as lowering the environmental footprint of cement industry. An emerging industrial byproduct which can partly replace cement is the Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash (MSWI ash: residue that is left after incineration of municipal solid waste in a Waste-to-Energy facility). These ashes are predominantly calcium-rich; however, they also contain additional elements whose speciation is not known. These elements can significantly alter the hydration characteristics of a cementitious system. Here, our results suggest these ashes can accelerate as well as retard cement hydration. Specifically, Pb, Br, S, Ca, and Cl appear to accelerate cement hydration, whereas Cu, Fe, Al, Ti, Si, K, Zn, and Sr appear to retard cement hydration. Changes in hydration characteristics can have a strong bearing on the physical characteristics of cementitious systems incorporating incineration ashes. Thus, to selectively screen ashes that synergistically enhance the physical characteristics, we introduce a novel “Incineration Ash Coefficient (IAC),” which shows a strong correlation with the compressive strength (R2=0.79) of cement-ash binary mixtures.},
doi = {10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106009},
journal = {Resources, Conservation and Recycling},
number = ,
volume = 177,
place = {United States},
year = {2021},
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