Utilization of drinking water treatment sludge in concrete paving blocks: Microstructural analysis, durability and leaching properties
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Yan, Zhuge
Chow, Christopher WK
Keegan, Alexandra
Li, Danda
Pham, Phuong Ngoc
Huang, Jianyin
Siddique, Rafat
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The management of abundant drinking water treatment sludge (DWTS) in landfill remains an important issue. The reuse of DWTS as construction material could contribute to the development of greener concrete product and to mitigating the detrimental environment effect from excessive production of DWTS. This paper investigates the potential of using DWTS as sand replacement in Concrete Paving Blocks (CPB). Five CPB mixtures were designed and the replacement ratios of sand by DWTS were 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%, by weight. Properties of CPB such as compressive strength, water absorption, abrasion resistance, sulfate attack and metal leachability were determined. The results indicated that above 10% of DWTS, the replacement was detrimental to such properties of the CPB. Microstructure analysis proved the addition of DWTS could result in ettringite formation and the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) between the cement matrix and DWTS was more porous than that of sand. In addition, the metal leachability test of CPB demonstrated that the addition of high-copper DWTS into CPB was safe.
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Journal of Environmental Management
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© 2020. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Water treatment processes
Environmental management
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Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Drinking water treatment sludge
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Liu, Y; Yan, Z; Chow, CWK; Keegan, A; Li, D; Pham, NP; Huang, J; Siddique, R, Utilization of drinking water treatment sludge in concrete paving blocks: Microstructural analysis, durability and leaching properties, Journal of Environmental Management, 2020, 262, pp. 110352