Jun

19

Coal Ashes Make a Greener Cement

June 19, 2018 | Leave a Comment

Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Rice University engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, that can replace Portland cement in concrete. According to Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari, who developed it with graduate student Sung Hoon Hwang the material is cementless and environmentally friendly. The fly ash binder does […]

Jun

5

The Secrets of Roman Concrete Found

June 5, 2013 | 4 Comments

An international team of researchers led by Paulo Monteiro of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley has found the chemical ancient secrets of Roman concrete. That may not strike one as an energy and fuel topic, but […]

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