Special Issue "Accelerated Carbonation Technologies for Construction and Building Materials"
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2023 | Viewed by 790
Special Issue Editors
Interests: civil engineering; UHPC; concrete; cement; building materials; carbonation; recycled aggregate
Interests: civil engineering; concrete; cement; recycled aggregate; alkali activation
Interests: sustainable concrete materials and technology; 3D printing of sustainable concrete
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: civil engineering; concrete; cement; carbonation curing; self-consolidating concrete; C-S-H; life cycle assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our world is facing critical environmental challenges due to the extensive release of CO2, and the production and use of concrete contribute a significant portion of these carbon emissions. Meanwhile, the annual production of concrete consumes 4–6 billion tonnes of cement and generates 8% of global CO2 emissions, making construction a carbon-intensive industry. Carbon is mainly produced from the combustion of fossil fuels, and these will remain dominant energy sources for the foreseeable future. To mitigate global warming and the associated environmental changes, reducing the CO2 released by construction and building materials has attracted significant interest.
This Special Issue aims to discuss the new advanced accelerated carbonation technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of construction and building materials, which also have good performance. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
- Low-carbon concrete.
- Carbon curing.
- Low-carbon cement.
- Carbonation mineralization materials.
- Carbonation of recycled wastes (recycled concrete, IBA, steel slag, etc.).
- Biological carbonation mineralization.
- Life cycle assessment (LCA).
- Theory and simulations on carbonation technologies.
- Other accelerated carbonation technologies.
Dr. Peiliang Shen
Dr. Dongxing Xuan
Dr. Shipeng Zhang
Dr. Rahil Khoshnazar
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- carbon
- carbonation curing
- cementitious materials
- low-carbon cement
- low-carbon concrete
- life cycle assessment (LCA)
- CO2 sequestration
- calcium carbonate
- value-added products
- mineralization
