Ateneo - UPO

This course describes advanced aspects of cement manufacture, cement phase composition, cement hydration, properties of cement with admixtures, special cements, and various cement durability issues.

Structure and Performance of Cements, 2nd Edition, Edited by J. Bensted and P. Barnes, Spon Press, London, 2002, ISBN 0–419–23330–X.

H. F. W. Taylor, “Cement Chemistry,” 2nd Edition, Thomas Telford, London, 1997. ISBN: 0727725920; 9780727725929.

The course is complete with downloadable slides of the lectures, exercises, and reading material.

To build a solid knowledge foundation about the innovative and most up-to-date concepts underlying the chemistry of cement manufacture, hydration, durability, and sustainability.

Fundamentals of general chemistry and materials science
Knowledge of cement chemistry basics

Classroom lectures and technical visits to factories / industrial R&D laboratories

A classroom activity of the revision of main topics of the course, using examples and exercises, are periodically done.

Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special
Education Needs can request specific services and tools via the Staff
Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse e agli
Studenti, consulting the University webpage:

https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/services-students-physical-or-learning-disabilities

Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education
needs, once they have contacted the University Staff, can refer to the
tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities,
concerning academic aspects.

Written test based on multiple choice and open questions and a brief supplementary description, on production and environmental issues, impact reduction strategies, new materials and their properties and application criteria for cementitious materials.
The open answers will be evaluated in the ability to briefly describe the topic of the question and correlate it with chemical, technological and application aspects of cementitious materials.

Module 1 Cement manufacturing and new trends

Session 1.1 Cement production
Session 1.2 Cement types and application
Session 1.3 Energy and raw material needs for cement and their environmental impact
Session 1.4 Strategies to reduce impact of cement production

Module 2 Improvement of sustainability based on processes for the production of cement

Session 2.1 Caloric substitution (fuels from waste and scrap, oxyfuel, hydrogen, flash calcination)
Session 2.2 Carbon Capture and Storage/Carbon Capture and Utilisation

Module 3 Materials-based sustainability improvement

Session 3.1 Low energy requirement clinker - CSA
Session 3.2 Low energy requirement clinker – Belitic cements

Module 4 Supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) in composite cement formulations

Session 4.1 Limestone cement
Session 4.2 Slag based cement
Session 4.3 Pozzolan based cement
Session 4.4 Calcined clay based cement
Session 4.5 Mixed cements
Session 4.6 Application

Module 5 Durability

Session 5.1 Chloride attack
Session 5.2 Sulfate attack
Session 5.3 Carbonation
Session 5.4 Frost resistance

Module 6 New ways to obtain cementitious materials

Session 6.1 Geopolymerisation
Session 6.2 Carbon curing
Session 6.3 Celitement
Session 6.4 Solidia
Session 6.5 Construction demolition wastes

Students are expected to become familiar with the most current and advanced concepts of cement manufacturing and chemistry, its impact on society and the environment. They are also expected to know the hydration processes and durability of cement, as well as the future directions of the cement industry towards a sustainable and zero-emission world.