Development of Sustainable Cementitious Binder Utilizing Silicomanganese Fumes

  • Syed Khaja Najamuddin*
  • , Megat Azmi Megat Johari
  • , Mohammed Maslehuddin
  • , Moruf Olalekan Yusuf
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Sustainable alkali activated mortar was developed in this study utilizing silicomanganese (SiMn) fume. SiMn fume is an industrial by-product produced during the production of SiMn alloy by carbothermic reduction. SiO2, MnO2 and K2O are the major constituents of SiMn fume. The precursor material was activated by varied concentration of NaOH (4M, 8M and 12M) and constant Na2SiO3/NaOH ratio of 2.5. Alkali activated SiMn fume mortars were cured at room temperature (23 ± 2 °C) and the maximum compressive strength of 36 MPa was achieved at a concentration of 12M NaOH. Influence of dissolution of SiMn fume with a change in NaOH concentration can be observed from the results of setting time, flow and compressive strength. Flow and compressive strength increased with an increase in the concentration of NaOH. SiMn fume can be utilized as a precursor material to develop a sustainable alkali activated cementitious binder.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability - Proceedings of ICIMES 2019
EditorsA.N.R. Reddy, Deepak Marla, Milan Simic, Margarita N. Favorskaya, Suresh Chandra Satapathy
PublisherSpringer
Pages299-308
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811516153
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Publication series

NameSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume169
ISSN (Print)2190-3018
ISSN (Electronic)2190-3026

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Keywords

  • Alkali activated mortar
  • NaOH
  • NaSiO
  • Room temperature curing
  • Sustainable binder

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Decision Sciences
  • General Computer Science

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