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http://dx.doi.org/10.4334/JKCI.2014.26.1.013

Effect of Ground Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag on Life-Cycle Environmental Impact of Concrete  

Yang, Keun-Hyeok (Dept. of Plant.Architectural Engineering, Kyonggi University)
Seo, Eun-A (Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Kyonggi University Graduate School)
Jung, Yeon-Back (Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Kyonggi University Graduate School)
Tae, Sung-Ho (School of Architecture & Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute / v.26, no.1, 2014 , pp. 13-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
To quantitatively evaluate the influence of ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) as a supplementary cementitious material on the life-cycle environmental impact of concrete, a comprehensive database including 3395 laboratory mixes and 1263 plant mixes was analyzed. The life-cycle assesment studied for the environmental impact of concrete can be summarized as follows: 1) the system boundary considered was from cradle to pre-construction; 2) Korea life-cycle inventories were primarily used to assess the environmental loads in each phase of materials, transportation and production of concrete; and 3) the environmental loads were quantitatively converted into environmental impact indicators through categorization, characterization, normalization and weighting process. The life-cycle environmental impacts of concrete could be classified into three categories including global warming, photochemical oxidant creation and abiotic resource depletion. Furthermore, these environmental impacts of concrete was significantly governed by the unit content of ordinary portland cement (OPC) and decreased with the increase of the replacement level of GGBS. As a result, simple equations to assess the environmental impact indicators could be formulated as a function of the unit content of binder and replacement level of GGBS.
Keywords
environmental impact; slag; unit content of binder; global warming;
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