Development of Sustainable Alternative Building Materials from Quarry Dust

Abstract:

The main goal of our work is to develop an alternative building material based on “zero waste” objective, thus creating commercially valuable products from materials that are otherwise high-volume waste products. Fine dolomitic quarry dust is a waste product manufactured in several millions of cubic tons each year in the mining industry of Israel. Our study examines a sustainable and useful solution to use this quarry dust (QD) as a part of fly ash based geopolymeric systems. Mechanical, thermal and chemical properties were examined and analyzed.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 761)
• Pages: 181-188
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.761.181
• Online since: January 2018
• Authors: Ehud Cohen, Gabriela Bar Nes, Alva Peled
• Keywords: Alkaline Activation, Dolomite, Fly Ash, Geopolymer, Quarry Dust

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