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Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing
The production and utilization of concrete and concrete-based products have drastically increased with the surge of construction activities over the last decade, especially in countries such as China and India. Consequently, this has resulted in a corresponding increase in the energy used for the pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9230967/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35744203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15124143 |
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author | Arularasi, Veerabadrasamy Pachiappan, Thamilselvi Avudaiappan, Siva Raman, Sudharshan Naidu Guindos, Pablo Amran, Mugahed Fediuk, Roman Vatin, Nikolai Ivanovich |
author_facet | Arularasi, Veerabadrasamy Pachiappan, Thamilselvi Avudaiappan, Siva Raman, Sudharshan Naidu Guindos, Pablo Amran, Mugahed Fediuk, Roman Vatin, Nikolai Ivanovich |
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description | The production and utilization of concrete and concrete-based products have drastically increased with the surge of construction activities over the last decade, especially in countries such as China and India. Consequently, this has resulted in a corresponding increase in the energy used for the production of ready-mixed concrete. One approach to reduce the cost of concrete manufacturing is to reduce the energy required for the manufacturing process. The main hypothesis of this study is that the power required for mixing the concrete can be reduced through the use of mineral admixtures in the mix design. Optimization of energy consumption during mixing using admixtures in concrete manufacturing is the predominant focus of this article. To achieve this objective, power consumption data were measured and analyzed throughout the concrete mixing process. The power consumption curve is the only source to distinguish the behavior of the different materials used in the concrete in a closed chamber. In the current research, fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) were used as mineral admixtures to produce ready-mixed concrete. The experimental study focused on the influence of GGBS and fly ash on power consumption during concrete mixing. The results indicated that the use of a higher content of GGBS is more beneficial in comparison to the use of fly ash in the mix due to the lower mixing time required to achieve homogeneity in the mixing process. It was found that the amount of energy required for mixing is directly related to the mixing time for the mix to achieve homogeneity. |
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spelling | pubmed-92309672022-06-25 Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing Arularasi, Veerabadrasamy Pachiappan, Thamilselvi Avudaiappan, Siva Raman, Sudharshan Naidu Guindos, Pablo Amran, Mugahed Fediuk, Roman Vatin, Nikolai Ivanovich Materials (Basel) Article The production and utilization of concrete and concrete-based products have drastically increased with the surge of construction activities over the last decade, especially in countries such as China and India. Consequently, this has resulted in a corresponding increase in the energy used for the production of ready-mixed concrete. One approach to reduce the cost of concrete manufacturing is to reduce the energy required for the manufacturing process. The main hypothesis of this study is that the power required for mixing the concrete can be reduced through the use of mineral admixtures in the mix design. Optimization of energy consumption during mixing using admixtures in concrete manufacturing is the predominant focus of this article. To achieve this objective, power consumption data were measured and analyzed throughout the concrete mixing process. The power consumption curve is the only source to distinguish the behavior of the different materials used in the concrete in a closed chamber. In the current research, fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) were used as mineral admixtures to produce ready-mixed concrete. The experimental study focused on the influence of GGBS and fly ash on power consumption during concrete mixing. The results indicated that the use of a higher content of GGBS is more beneficial in comparison to the use of fly ash in the mix due to the lower mixing time required to achieve homogeneity in the mixing process. It was found that the amount of energy required for mixing is directly related to the mixing time for the mix to achieve homogeneity. MDPI 2022-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9230967/ /pubmed/35744203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15124143 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Arularasi, Veerabadrasamy Pachiappan, Thamilselvi Avudaiappan, Siva Raman, Sudharshan Naidu Guindos, Pablo Amran, Mugahed Fediuk, Roman Vatin, Nikolai Ivanovich Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing |
title | Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing |
title_full | Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing |
title_fullStr | Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing |
title_short | Effects of Admixtures on Energy Consumption in the Process of Ready-Mixed Concrete Mixing |
title_sort | effects of admixtures on energy consumption in the process of ready-mixed concrete mixing |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9230967/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35744203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15124143 |
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