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Engineering and microstructure properties of contaminated marine sediments solidified by high content of incinerated sewage sludge ash
- Source :
- Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Management of incinerated sewage sludge ash (ISSA) and dredged contaminated marine sediments (CMSs) is a great challenge for Hong Kong and other coastal cities due to limited landfilling capacity. The present study investigates the use of high content (20% of sediment by mass) of ISSA in combination with cement/lime for solidification/stabilization (S/S) treatment of CMSs to provide a way to reuse the wastes as construction materials. The results showed that ISSA being a porous material was able to absorb a large amount of water rendering a more efficient solidification process of the marine sediment which normally had a very high water content (∼80%). The S/S treatment improved the engineering properties of the sediment, but reduced the workability, especially for the lime-treated samples. Lime can be used to replace ordinary Portland cement (OPC) for better heavy metal immobilization and carbon emission reduction. The hardened sediment samples prepared with 10% of lime and 20% of ISSA could attain a strength of 1.6 MPa after 28 d of curing. In addition, leaching tests confirmed that there was no environmental risk induced by these stabilized materials. The formation of hydrated cementitious compounds including calcium silicate hydrate (C–S–H)/calcium aluminate silicate hydrate (C-A-S-H)/hydrocalumite/calcite was mainly responsible for the strength development in the ISSA/lime-treated sediments.
- Subjects :
- Cement
Waste management
0211 other engineering and technologies
Sediment
02 engineering and technology
engineering.material
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
complex mixtures
01 natural sciences
Silicate
law.invention
Incineration
chemistry.chemical_compound
Portland cement
chemistry
law
engineering
Environmental science
Cementitious
Calcium silicate hydrate
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Lime
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16747755
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........479af23be498b33028a4dd870d18c984