Evaluation of the environmental impact of concrete mixes involving industrial by products and recycled resources

Anupam Kumar Gautam; Ritu Shree; Raghavendra Prasad H. D.; Satish Upadhyay

doi:10.31893/multiscience.2024ss0324

Keywords:

heat transfer

fluidized bed

composite thermal model

(CDF-DEA)

Abstract

About 80–85% of the amount of mortar often utilized by Indian authorities in their construction projects is made up of virgin aggregates from nature. These municipalities produce a significant quantity of garbage from building and tearing down (C&D), the most of which is disposed of in landfills. These novel formulations for concrete may be taken into consideration for applications requiring greater compression strengths, according to the testing findings. Cement integrating up to 100% waste material from C&D from aggregates was demonstrated to surpass the constrictive force necessary for the majority of structural purposes. Utilizing this new concrete for domestic flooring significantly decrease how much C&D waste there is that is dumped in landfill. Because of their greater compressive capacity, mixtures with 50% salvaged stones and 50% organic pebbles, and from ten percent to forty percent by-products as cement ingredients were found to have the greatest potential for reducing energy consumption and environmental impact. In addition to creating new job possibilities, recycling C&D wastes might significantly help the protection of natural resources, such as biodiversity and land. Additionally, by substituting various mixtures of recycled aggregate concrete for energy-intensive aggregates from nature, ranging from 90 to 280 GWh of energy might possibly be saved.
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Gautam, A. K., Shree, R., Prasad H. D., R., & Upadhyay, S. (2024). Evaluation of the environmental impact of concrete mixes involving industrial by products and recycled resources. Multidisciplinary Science Journal, 6, 2024ss0324. https://doi.org/10.31893/multiscience.2024ss0324

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