Journal
JOURNAL OF CO2 UTILIZATION
Volume 33, Issue -, Pages 201-214Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2019.05.028
Keywords
Steel slag; Carbonation; Compressive strength; Microstructure; Leaching and mineralogy
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Accelerated carbonation is a treatment for converting alkaline industrial residues into added-value products and storing CO2 in solid form. This work investigated the influence of reacting phases and CO2 uptake on microstructure development, mechanical properties and the environmental behavior of carbonated compacts produced from Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) and Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) slags, characterized by a different mineralogy. The compacts were cured under a 100% CO2 atmosphere at 50 degrees C and pressure of 1.3 or 10 bar for 15 min to 4 h. The BOF slag reacted very fast in the first 30-60 min due to the complete conversion of portlandite to calcite, amorphous calcium carbonate and aragonite, and continued to react over time due to the presence of slower reacting Ca-silicate phases. For the EAF slag, rich in Ca-silicates, the CO2 uptake was lower, and increased only slightly over time at 1.3 bar and became almost stable after 15 minutes at 10 bar; the EAF slag products however presented a higher compressive strength than the BOF slag ones, because of the different phases involved in the carbonation reaction. For the BOF slag, portlandite dissolution caused the formation of voids, only partially filled up by the reaction products. For the EAF slag, formation of a carbonate and amorphous silica layer around the reacting silicates yielded a denser matrix. pH and Ba leaching decreased for both types of slag, whereas V release increased due to the dissolution of reactive phases such as dicalcium silicates, which initially contained this element.
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