Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages 20-27Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.082
Keywords
Magnesia cement; Carbon emission; Thermodynamic analysis; CO2 re-absorption; Carbon footprint
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Funding
- 973 Project [2015CB655100]
- Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architecture [SYSYSJJ2012-09, SYSJJ2014-09]
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Because the calcination temperature of magnesia cement is significantly lower than that of the Portland cement, and previous researchers thought that the magnesium hydroxide could re-absorb carbon dioxide just as calcium hydroxide did, the reactive magnesia cement and magnesium silicates-based cement were labelled as low carbon emission cement. The life cycle carbon emission of magnesia cement is assessed in this paper, comparing with that of Portland cement. The results show that the reactive magnesium oxide cement lead to 79-395 kg/ton more direct CO2 emission than Portland cement during producing. Moreover, the thermodynamic analysis also indicates that the magnesium hydroxide cannot be carbonated in the reactive magnesia cement system or in the magnesium silicate cement system, i.e., the magnesia cement cannot absorb carbon dioxide from the service environment as people expected, whereas Portland cement can absorb more than 250 kg CO2 per ton. Also, the magnesia cement has lower performance than Portland cement. So magnesia cement has a bigger life-cycle carbon footprint than Portland cement. Therefore, it is misleading to develop magnesia cement as low carbon cement or carbon-negative cement. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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