Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials

Huge amount of palm oil wastes were produced annually in Malaysia, among these are oil palm shell (OPS) waste and palm oil fuel ash (POFA). OPS is a waste obtained after the palm oil extraction process while POFA is a resulting waste from the incineration process of OPS along with other palm oil was...

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Main Authors: Ul Islam, M.M., Mo, Kim Hung, Alengaram, Ubagaram Johnson, Jumaat, Mohd Zamin
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Published: Elsevier 2016
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author Ul Islam, M.M.
Mo, Kim Hung
Alengaram, Ubagaram Johnson
Jumaat, Mohd Zamin
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Mo, Kim Hung
Alengaram, Ubagaram Johnson
Jumaat, Mohd Zamin
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description Huge amount of palm oil wastes were produced annually in Malaysia, among these are oil palm shell (OPS) waste and palm oil fuel ash (POFA). OPS is a waste obtained after the palm oil extraction process while POFA is a resulting waste from the incineration process of OPS along with other palm oil wastes such as palm oil fibre and empty fruit bunch. Considering that the combined amount of OPS and POFA waste amounts to about 15 mil t a year, introduction of these materials into concrete could greatly alleviate this issue while at the same time reduces dependency on conventional concrete-making materials. In this paper, the durability properties of a sustainable concrete incorporating high volume palm oil waste materials, namely OPS and POFA were investigated. The concrete comprised of OPS as complete coarse aggregate substitute and POFA as cement replacement material by up to 70%. Although early age strength of the OPS concrete containing POFA was low, the compressive strength of the concrete containing up to 30% POFA was found to be comparable as the control at later stages. Results revealed that although the sorption properties of OPS concrete were increased in the presence of POFA, other durability properties of the concrete such as sulfate resistance, chloride ion permeability and drying shrinkage were improved at various replacement levels of POFA. For instance, the increase of POFA by up to 50% gave improved sulfate resistance of the OPS concrete and the best performance was found at 30% POFA. In the case of chloride ion permeability and drying shrinkage properties, while the use of up to 50% POFA did not improve the performance of the OPS concrete with water-to-binder ratio of 0.3, the incorporation of 70% POFA in the OPS concrete with water-to-binder ratio of 0.4 exhibited improved behavior compared to the corresponding control concrete.
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spelling um.eprints-177592020-02-05T04:51:27Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/17759/ Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials Ul Islam, M.M. Mo, Kim Hung Alengaram, Ubagaram Johnson Jumaat, Mohd Zamin TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Huge amount of palm oil wastes were produced annually in Malaysia, among these are oil palm shell (OPS) waste and palm oil fuel ash (POFA). OPS is a waste obtained after the palm oil extraction process while POFA is a resulting waste from the incineration process of OPS along with other palm oil wastes such as palm oil fibre and empty fruit bunch. Considering that the combined amount of OPS and POFA waste amounts to about 15 mil t a year, introduction of these materials into concrete could greatly alleviate this issue while at the same time reduces dependency on conventional concrete-making materials. In this paper, the durability properties of a sustainable concrete incorporating high volume palm oil waste materials, namely OPS and POFA were investigated. The concrete comprised of OPS as complete coarse aggregate substitute and POFA as cement replacement material by up to 70%. Although early age strength of the OPS concrete containing POFA was low, the compressive strength of the concrete containing up to 30% POFA was found to be comparable as the control at later stages. Results revealed that although the sorption properties of OPS concrete were increased in the presence of POFA, other durability properties of the concrete such as sulfate resistance, chloride ion permeability and drying shrinkage were improved at various replacement levels of POFA. For instance, the increase of POFA by up to 50% gave improved sulfate resistance of the OPS concrete and the best performance was found at 30% POFA. In the case of chloride ion permeability and drying shrinkage properties, while the use of up to 50% POFA did not improve the performance of the OPS concrete with water-to-binder ratio of 0.3, the incorporation of 70% POFA in the OPS concrete with water-to-binder ratio of 0.4 exhibited improved behavior compared to the corresponding control concrete. Elsevier 2016 Article PeerReviewed Ul Islam, M.M. and Mo, Kim Hung and Alengaram, Ubagaram Johnson and Jumaat, Mohd Zamin (2016) Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137. pp. 167-177. ISSN 0959-6526, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.061 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.061>. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.061 doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.061
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Alengaram, Ubagaram Johnson
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Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials
title Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials
title_full Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials
title_fullStr Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials
title_full_unstemmed Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials
title_short Durability properties of sustainable concrete containing high volume palm oil waste materials
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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