Research and development of low environmental impact hydraulic binders "HIDRAULIC".
Increasingly, research is being carried out into new techniques for the use of industrial waste for its recovery. The main active additives currently used in cements come from industrial waste, with two environmental benefits: the use of a waste product and the reduction of the clinker required, thus contributing to the reduction of the global cement industry's carbon footprint.
The project "HIDRAULIC aims to evaluate materials from industrial waste to be used as active additions in cements, promoting the use of this type of cement. This partial replacement of Portland cement with mineral additions has significant environmental and economic benefits.
In previous research, CTCON has shown that by combining more than one simultaneous addition, synergies can be optimised by improving the early age performance of cements with additions so that they resemble CEM I cements. In the present project, the general objective is to investigate and analyse mixtures consisting of Portland cement and different mineral additions in order to achieve a significant improvement of the efficiency of the additions (multi-addition cements). Through this combination of more than one simultaneous mineral addition, synergies will be optimised to improve the long-term durability of the concretes.
This project is financed through a grant from the Instituto de Fomento de la Región de Murcia aimed at the Technological Centres of the Region of Murcia, Modality 1: R&D Projects, co-financed by 80% by the ERDF global grant.
