TEAM : MEGAMIND P008

ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY ECOLOGICAL CONCRETE

A milestone in green construction
Authors : Swagata Dasgupta, Tahsin Afroz Hoque Nishat, Radia Tahmeem Kabir
Bangladesh University of Engineering And Technology

INTRODUCTION Quality
Lower 2
High emission
Above 30% of worlds is being produced by cement Tensile and than OPC Less drying
industry.Reduction of carbon footprint in construction is Compressiv shrinkage
our principle concern now. e strength

emission can be reduced 15% by using fly ash and

40% by using granular blust furnace slag. Utilization of Higher
power plant Strength
waste and Advantages
For better solution Japanese researcher Dr Denky has
green house
than OPC
developed a new ecological concrete to achieve gas concrete
emission below zero.

The name of this ecological concrete is SUICOM

( Storage Under Infrastructure by Concrete Materials Low heat Economic
) of Capture and
hydration 2 in sustainable
hardening
process
INSIDE THEORY
OPC Cement New Ecological Concrete
Application
2 emission below ZERO

1.Paving Block
2.Boundary block
3.Foundation.
4.Residential Building

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During manufacturing 2 production reduced 120-250 kg

Three Special feature per cubic meter.
During hardening process 100-200 kg per cubic meter of
2 is absorbed .
Special Admixture . (gamma
phase calcium oxide silicon dioxide). Because of Future of Ecological Concrete in
this, hardening process of ecological concrete is Bangladesh
done by reacting with .
In Bangladesh fly ash produces onlyin Barapukuria Thermal
emission for production of 2. 2 is
power station . This fly ash is dumped in a dry embankment of
one fifth of OPC.
capacity 183,000 MT which is already two third filled by 2012.
Each year aditional 52,000 MT of fly ash is being added. In this
situation we can huge amount of fly ash in production of
Use Fly Ash as cementing material which is a waste
ecological concrete.
product generated from thermal power plant

Conclusion
Capture contained in exhaust gas produced in
The CO2 emissions of this concrete can be reduced by half
thermal power station
compared to ordinary concrete by using 2. 2 and fly-
ash. More CO2 than is emitted by the concrete is captured in the
hardening process of the concrete. Therefore, the CO2 emissions
of the newly developed concrete can be below zero. The more of
this new ecological concrete that is produced, the more CO2 will
REFERENCES : www.sciencedirect.com be absorbed. It has potential to play a CO2-absorbing role like
http://www.bcmcl.org.bd that of trees. This concrete can be expected to be applicable to
various kinds of construction work and hence its practical
application needs to be developed and encouraged.