06-04-2016, 11:43 AM
partial replacement of cement with egg shell powder literature
Abstract
This paper reports the results of experiments evaluating the use of egg shell powder from egg production industry as partial replacement for ordinary Portland cement in cement mortar. The chemical composition of the egg shell powder and com-pressive strength of the cement mortar was determined. The ce-ment mortar of mix proportion 1:3 in which cement is partially replaced with egg shell powder as 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30% by weight of cement. The compressive strength was deter-mined at curing ages 28 days. There was a sharp decrease in compressive strength beyond 5% egg shell powder substitution. The admixtures used are Saw Dust ash, Fly Ash and Micro silica to enhance the strength of the concrete mix with 5% egg shell powder as partial replacement for cement. In this direction, an experimental investigation of compressive strength, split tensile strength, and Flexural strength was undertaken to use egg shell powder and admixtures as partial replacement for cement in concrete.
Introduction
The carbon dioxide produced by cement industries causes environmental pollution and global warming. In 1000Kg of cement manufacturing processes approximately 900Kg of CO2 is emitted. In order to reduce the impact of cement production on atmosphere, wastes by products are used as admixture in this study, so that environmental pollution and natural resources consumption is reduced. 75million tones of fly ash which are rich in silica are disposed to landfill as a waste annually in India. Egg shell powder which is rich in calcium is thrown away as a waste. In the present study, these two wastes are used as a partial replacement of cement and various properties like workability, compressive strength, and density were determined. Egg shell powder are varied upto 12.5% ( 0%, 2.5%, 5%, 7.5%, 10% and 12.5%) and fly ash is added to optimum egg shell powder content cement concrete from 0% to 30% (0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% and 30%).