Recent Development in Utilization of Waste Ash for Construction Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 6437
Special Issue Editors
Interests: materials in the construction field; recycling; valorization; by-products; revalorization and environment; inertization; MSW usage for construction aggregates; thermal and acoustic insulation; alternative binders; leaching tests; materials for the improvement of energy efficiency; thermal energy storage; industrial processes; pilot plants; optimization processes, circular economy; alkali-activated materials; magnesium phosphate cements; pozzolanic reaction; ceramic materials; lightweight materials
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Interests: sustainable construction materials; recycling and beneficiation of by-products in construction application materials; cement; supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) and concrete; advanced materials for energy storage; green buildings; repairing materials for structural concrete; magnesium phosphate cements; alkali-activated materials and cements; waste materials for construction; fireproof materials; fire behavior; research in municipal solid waste management; environmental and mechanical behavior; environmental impact assessment; alternative binders
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of waste ash for construction purposes reduces landfilling and enhances the sustainability criteria. This research field represents an important issue, both for the scientist community and society.
The potential use of waste ash depends not only on its contents of hazardous compounds, but also on, for example, many elements for the development of novel alternative binders to Portland cement.
The purpose of modern alternatives to conventional construction materials, including the integration of sustainable and environmental criteria, such as light-weight materials, isolating materials, alternative binders and façades, the improvement of the corrosion qualities of steel-bar-reinforced concrete, the reparation of construction materials (including durability aspects) and many other properties, is to address important issues regarding global tendencies to avoid CO2 release through developments and the design of treatments.
This Special Issue aims to focus on novel perspectives regarding the use of waste ash for the development of construction materials, as well as the use of modern characterization techniques, such as MAS-NMR, FT-IR, nanoindentation, SEM, ITZ, etc. Moreover, the Special Issue encourages studies related to the functional properties of the final products, including comfort in buildings, the improvement of energy consumption in buildings by reducing the use of HVAC systems, acoustic behavior, fire-proof properties, etc.
Topics discussed within this Special Issue should focus not only on modern methods, technologies and further applications of developed materials, but also on the properties after service in long-term studies for durability and environmental assessments.
Dr. Jessica Giró Paloma
Prof. Dr. Joan Formosa Mitjans
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- construction materials
- waste ash recycling and management
- reuse
- aggregates
- life cycle assessment
- ash valorization
- inertization
- environment
- municipal incinerator bottom ash
- alternative binders
- ash heat treatments
- fly ash and bottom ash
- potential ash reactivity
- washed ashes
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