Geopolymer Institute

The Geopolymer Institute is introducing a series of training courses (learning / teaching) on Geopolymer Chemistry, Geopolymer Science and related Applications. The 2-day, 3-day and 4-day courses will be held at the Geopolymer Institute, Saint-Quentin, France (one and half hours drive North of Paris), with low-rates Hotels in the vicinity.
Course director
All the courses will be [...]

The Geopolymer Institute is introducing a series of training courses on Geopolymer Chemistry, Geopolymer Science and related Applications. The 2-day and 3-day courses will be held at the Geopolymer Institute, Saint-Quentin, France (one and half hours drive North of Paris), with low-rates Hotels in the vicinity. The first series of courses start on April 01. [...]

Industrial Research has developed a process which will enable the fly ash waste material from burning coal at the Huntly Power Station to be used as a feedstock for making new geoploymer materials.
Geopolymers are being investigated as an alternative to traditional cement materials and for waste remediation of hazardous substances.
Previously the high calcium level of [...]

The geopolymer group at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia (Prof. V. Rangan) has released 2 new reports on Fly Ash Based Geopolymer Concrete. They may be downloaded from our Library.
The first report: Report GC 2 is dealing with the long term properties. It has been included in the Technical Paper #17 in the Library, [...]

Curtin Research Report on Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete
Reinforced beams and columns
by Djwantoro Hardjito and B.Vijaya Rangan
Research Report GC 3 (120 pages) (mar. 2006)
Faculty of Engineering, Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Australia
This Research Report describes the behaviour and strength of reinforced low-calcium fly ash-based geopolymer concrete structural beams and columns. Earlier, Research Reports GC1 and GC2 covered [...]

The International Conference on Pozzolan, Concrete and Geopolymer, is organized by

Khon Kaen University, Sustainable Infrastructure Research and Development Center, (SIRDC),
Thai Geopolymer Network
Thai Concrete Association

and will be held on 24-25 May, 2006 at Sofitel Raja Hotel, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
The program on Geopolymer includes :

Development of geopolymer
Use of different stock feeds [...]

There is often confusion between the meaning of the terms “cement” and “concrete”. A cement is a binder whereas concrete is the composite material resulting from the addition of cement to stone aggregates. Cement is sold to companies that make concrete.
Geopolymer cement is often mixed up with alkali-activated slag developed since 1956 in Eastern Europe [...]

Up to 90% reduction of CO2 Greenhouse Gas emission during cement manufacture
Professor J. Davidovits started working on CO2 emissions mitigation as earlier as 1990, at PennState Materials Research Laboratory, USA. American Agencies (DOE and EPA) stated that this was not an important issue and both institutions declined to support research proposals.
In this section we develop:
a) [...]

Applications with geopolymer cements and concretes are described in the section Geopolymer Cement with special emphasis on the introduction of user-friendly systems. It is striking to notice that Geopolymer cements manufacture emits 80 to 90% less CO2 (greenhouse effect gas) than Portland Cement. See in GLOBAL WARMING. They are perfect examples of Green Chemistry and [...]

Prof. Joseph Davidovits presents the road map for the next couple of years on geopolymer science innovation and research, at the 2nd International Congress on Ceramics, Verona, Italy, July 4th, 2008. Watch the video on YouTube.
There is a great need for innovation and therefore further research must be carried out. We have listed below [...]