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Life Cycle Assessment of Lightweight Aggregates from Coal Ashes: A Cradle-to-Gate Analysis

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Concrete Durability and Service Life Planning (ConcreteLife 2020)

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Power plant coal combustion residues (CCR) that consist of bottom ash and off-spec fly ash may be beneficially converted to value-added construction materials thereby reducing disposal costs and landfilled waste. Coal ashes have been investigated as sources of raw material for lightweight aggregates owing to their mineral properties, using well-known processes for agglomeration of fine particles (e.g., via sintering or autoclaving processes). Recent literature by Billen et al. [1]. Proposed converting coal bottom ash to spherical porous reactive aggregates (SPoRA) using a sintering process and fluxing agents that allow lowering the operating temperature of the rotary furnace used to produce the lightweight aggregates (LWAs).

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  1. Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    K. J. O’Hare, M. Torelli, M. Balapour, Y. Farnam, Y. Grace Hsuan & S. Spatari

  2. Mechanical Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    G. Pizzulli

  3. Italy University of Antwerp, Biogem, Salesianenlaan 90, 2660, Hoboken, Belgium

    P. Billen

  4. Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    S. Spatari

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  1. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Konstantin Kovler

  2. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Semion Zhutovsky

  3. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Sabrina Spatari

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Ole M. Jensen

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O’Hare, K.J. et al. (2020). Life Cycle Assessment of Lightweight Aggregates from Coal Ashes: A Cradle-to-Gate Analysis. In: Kovler, K., Zhutovsky, S., Spatari, S., Jensen, O. (eds) Concrete Durability and Service Life Planning. ConcreteLife 2020. RILEM Bookseries, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43332-1_10

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