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High-Volume Mineral Admixtures in Cementitious Binders: Towards Carbon-Neutral Construction delivers an overview of the broad applications of high-volume supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in cementitious binders, addressing the most promising ways to use them to reduce carbon emissions in the construction and building industry. This book focuses on the applications and scientific challenges of high-volume SCMs blends, elaborating on the possibilities as well as offering original perspectives on using different kinds of blended cements in the manufacturing process. Emphasis is placed on activity estimation and quality assessment, the properties of high-volume SCM-blends at both the fresh and hardened stages, self-hydraulic properties, and potential use as the sole binder, as well as associated environmental impacts and carbon footprint reduction.
List of contents
1. High-volume GGBS blended cements 2. High-volume Fly ash blended cements 3. High-volume biochar blended cements 4. High-volume limestone blended cements 5. High-volume waste glass powder blended cements 6. Recycled brick powder blended cements 7. High-volume recycled marble powder blended cements 8. High-volume calcined clay blended cements 9. Alkali-activated slag material: A promising option for binding sulphidic tailings 10. High-volume Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash blended cements 11. Utilize municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash in cementing materials 12. High-volume Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash blended cements 13. High-volume Coal Gangue blended cements 14. High-volume steel slag blended cements 15. High-volume waste sea shell blended cements 16. High-volume red mud blended cements 17. High volume mine tailing blended cements 18. High volume rice husk ash blended cements 19. High-volume basalt waste blended cements 20. High-volume steel slag usage in construction industry 21. Sustainable cementitious binders containing high-volume red mud 22. High-volume rock wool waste blended cements 23. Sustainability evaluation of ‘green’ concrete through LCA
About the author
Ir Prof. Dan Tsang is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University in China. Dan was a Professor and MSc Programme Leader at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the US and IMETE Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium, and postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London in the UK. He has more than 20 years of R&D experience, published more than 600 articles in the top 10% journals, and was selected as Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists (Lifetime) and Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers in the academic fields of Engineering as well as Environment & Ecology. Dan’s team aspires to develop green technologies for long-term decarbonization and promote resource circularity and sustainable development. Dan also serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Materials Sustainability (Nature Portfolio), Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association (2023-2025), and Chairman of Waste Management Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on the Environment (2023&2024) of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Xiaohong Zhu is a Professor of Civil Engineering Materials at Beijing University of Technology. Over the years, he has conducted research at Chongqing University, Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Leeds, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in low-carbon cement and concrete technology, as well as aged concrete. Dr. Zhu has collaborated with Prof. Ian G. Richardson at the University of Leeds on the analysis of historically significant aged cement samples, including Joseph Aspdin’s patent Portland cement (Wakefield, UK) and William Aspdin’s cement (Sheerness, UK). Additionally, he has worked with Prof. Paulo J. M. Monteiro at UC Berkeley on studies of Roman concrete and concrete from the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Istanbul, Turkey).
