US-based company Vulcan Materials is a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials, including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. A couple of years ago, the company installed an Insitec ...

In this interview, AZoM speaks to Paul Haigh, Product Manager at CARBOLITE, about the QA of raw materials process testing within the cement industry. Can you start by giving our readers an overview of ...

The modern world is built on concrete, and cement is what makes it possible. You've probably heard these two terms used interchangeably, especially while watching DIY videos on YouTube. However, they ...

This process uses solid waste from the steel industry as a catalyst to facilitate the reaction between calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) and methane (CH₄) under a CH₄ atmosphere, producing calcium oxide (CaO) ...

A new technique can produce cement using waste from demolished buildings, which researchers say could save billions of tonnes of carbon by 2050. “We have definitely proved that cement can be recycled ...

Conventional thermal decomposition production of lime (left) versus STEP direct solar conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide (right) eliminating CO2. (Image: Dr. Licht, University of ...

Green and sustainable-technology projects aren’t exactly in fashion in the United States federal government these days — and Cody Finke knows that personally. In May, the U.S. Department of Energy ...