Production of amorphous aluminosilicate and vaterite from acid leaching of hydrated cement paste
Author(s)
Ding, Tiejun
Wong, Hong
Yio, Marcus
Cheeseman, Christopher
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Acetic acid has been used to leach Portland cement paste, and the effect of acid concentration, liquid/solid ratio, temperature, and time on leaching of Ca, Al, Fe and Si is reported. The silica-rich solid residue (SR) remaining after leaching was washed, dried, and ground. This amorphous aluminosilicate has comparable pozzolanic reactivity to commercial supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) such as coal fly ash. The 28-day compressive strength of 0.5 w/b mortar containing 20% CEM 1 replaced with SR extracted from cement paste (63.6 MPa) was higher than the reference (51.2 MPa). The leachate from acid leaching contains high levels of Ca2+ ions, and these can sequester CO2 under controlled conditions to form vaterite, a spherical polymorph of CaCO3. Cement paste present in waste concrete can therefore be used to form a reactive silica-rich SCM in a process that sequesters carbon. The research has implications for the development of circular concrete.
Date Issued
2024-10
Date Acceptance
2024-08-21
Citation
Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials, 2024, 13 (10), pp.1502-1513
ISSN
2165-0373
Publisher
Taylor and Francis Group
Start Page
1502
End Page
1513
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials
Volume
13
Issue
10
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow
the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
License URL
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21650373.2024.2397484
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2024-09-02