Using ceramic waste tile powder as a sustainable and eco-friendly partial cement replacement in concrete production

Abstract

Waste and looking for solutions to the world's most significant issue today. Currently, waste use is considered an appropriate option to landfill. There are several studies on the reuse of waste in the construction field, the majority of which are connected to using waste in buildings and the application of waste in concrete to produce new types of concrete. Any use of waste-creating is not only economical but also a very effective and attractive approach to the disposal challenge. The increasing volume of ceramic waste has piqued the curiosity of many people in finding sustainable applications for it in construction materials. This paper describes a ceramic burnt up to 700°Celsius and an unburned powder with a mean size of 0.85 µm made from ceramic waste in order to produce sustainable construction materials. Ceramic powder was used as a supplemental cementitious material to replace 10 to 20% of the cement in blended cement products in order to tune their mechanical properties. The results revealed that using ceramic powder at a level of 10% performs best for both types of ceramic waste powder (burned and unburned). Furthermore, burned ceramic powder has better mechanical properties than unburnt powder and is sufficient with control one in additional to provides economic and environmental benefits, such as a reduction in the number of natural regions used as garbage landfills.