Used Engine Coolant as an Admixture in Concrete

Abstract

Abstract: Civil Engineering has always been a field of innovations. Civil Engineers have always worked towards bringing useful outcomes. They have always tried to bring in scientific inventions and discoveries for their benefit. But the sudden explosion of scientific technology has seen some disadvantages as well. The worst hit victim of all nuisance created by the Science and Technology has been the Earth. The pollution created by technologies has started to deteriorate our mother earth. So it has been felt that there is an urgent need of some innovations which would reduce the pollution. The pollution has left our water contaminated and there is an evident scarcity of water in the world. This is to be understood here that water is the most important material when it comes to the construction of civil engineering projects. Thus the scarcity has already hit the construction field and it is surely going to have some very long lasting impacts on the construction in future. Thus we need some alternative to water. There has already been a lot of research on the development of an alternative to water. However, very little has been achieved by now. I decided to take things a little further by introducing a waste product as an alternative to water. I used Engine Coolant as an alternative to water and studied the impact it will have on the constructions. This usage will reduce the waste on earth as well. As of now it is impossible to replace entire water with Engine coolants but we can still study its impact on concrete and its feasibility in constructions. This study is completely based on the impact of Engine Coolant in concrete. The study has been carried out to create an alternative to water and reduce the waste materials in this world. This paper presents a study on properties of concrete like workability, compressive, tensile and flexural strength for both normal and the accelerated curing for M30 concrete mix at 7 & 28 days for (0%, 0.25%, 0.5%, 0.75%, 1%, 1.25%, 1.5%, 2%, 3%, 4% & 100%) partial replacement of water by used engine coolant in concrete. All the tests for finding different properties of concrete and its mix design were done using the Indian standard guidelines.