Renewable Energy for Carbon Footprint Reduction of Production of Lightweight Geopolymer Concrete

Abstract

In the present world, researchers have been keenly interested in developing special concrete like Geo polymer concrete in recent years due to its lower global warming impact, better serviceability, higher durability, and overall economy compared to conventional concrete. Geo polymer is a comparatively new substitute binder for making concrete. The geopolymer binders are produced using industrial by-products such as fly ash and blast furnace slag instead of ordinary Portland cement. Using Geo polymer can reduce CO₂ emissions and lower the global warming impact.  The major issue before the present community is to minimize the CO₂ emission, which is also the lead source of global warming. In the present research, an attempt has been made to predict that the CO₂ emission rate has either increased or declined in preparing the concrete by using Hand-mixing concrete. The calculations of CO₂ emission during manufacturing have been devised based on the collected data. It has also been proposed that how CO₂ emission can be reduced by varying the concrete mix proportions or by replacing the ingredients of concrete.