A Review of Chemical and Physical Properties of Wood Waste Ash and its Cement Blended Concrete

Edet ¹ , Bassey² , Celestine Mbakaan³

1. Dept. of Physics, School of Secondary Education, Science Program, Federal College of Education Obudu, Nigeria.
2. Dept. of Science Laboratory Technology, Physics/Electronics Section, Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Nigeria.

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.11 , Issue.1 , pp.1-7, Mar-2024

Online published on Mar 31, 2024

Copyright © Edet, Bassey Bassey, Celestine Mbakaan . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The study investigates the chemical composition and physical properties of wood waste ash as a partial substitute for cement in concrete and as a raw material in cement manufacturing. Wood waste ash contains silica (SiO2), alumina (Al2O3), iron oxide (Fe2O3), and quicklime (CaO) which makes it suitable for use in the above-mentioned applications. The blending of wood waste ash and ordinary Portland cement (OPC) at various levels of cement replacement produces a new type of blended cement having physical properties and heat kinetic properties in comparison to neat OPC. Wood waste ash/OPC blended cement has better properties such as standard consistency setting times, soundness, heat evolution characteristics, and the microstructure of hardened cement paste compared to OPC. However, factors including heat treatment temperature, species of trees from which the wood wastes were derived, types of combustion technology, and the thermodynamics of the furnace affect wood ash qualitatively and quantitatively during the incineration process of raw wood waste. These issues can be addressed by characterizing the ash before being used as constituent material in concrete and blended cement paste production.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Wood Waste Ash; Blended cement; Ordinary Portland Cement; Pozzolan; Partial cement replacement; Environmental threat.

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