Limestone-based green cements
Predicting concrete shrink-behavior
The cement industry generates about 6% of global CO2 emissions that are primarily caused by the production of Portland cement clinker. A reduction in the clinker content of cement and concrete and its substitution by increasingly adding limestone-based cements is found to be one of the most efficient approaches to reducing the greenhouse gas potential of concrete production. In a research project, concrete made of cement with 50 wt.-% of limestone and a reduced water-cement-ratio of 0.35 proved to exhibit sufficient properties in its fresh and hardened state whilst significantly lowering CO2...
