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Geopolymer in leading newspapers: The Financial Times and The Ecologist
English free-lance journalist, Paul Miles, wrote in the well known financial newspaper “The Financial Times” (20th January, 2012) an article about Portland Cement CO2 emissions and the Geopolymer cement concept. The same article, with additional details, was released by the world leading environmental magazine “The Ecologist” (14th February 2012). The Financial Times: titled “Solid solutions: [...]
American Ceramic Society video on Geopolymers
The American Ceramic Society has released a video by Prof. Trudy Kriven who chaired the last Geopolymer Session at the 34th Daytona 2010 Conference, Florida, Jan. 25-26, 2010. Go to Video Kriven (15 minutes long video).
Geopolymer Training courses start April 01, 2008
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. [...]
Book: geopolymers, green chemistry and sustainable development solutions
Geopolymers, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development Solutions. Proceedings of the Geopolymer 2005 World Congress The book contains the proceedings of the World Congress Geopolymer 2005, held in France and in Australia, on geopolymer science, technology and applications. More than 180 people attended the congress, 85 international research institutions and companies presented a total of 75 [...]
Geopolymer Conference in Thailand, 24-25 May 2006
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 [...]
Geopolymer Cement for mitigation of Global Warming
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, Pennstate University, USA. Unfortunately, American Agencies (DOE and EPA) stated that this was not an important issue and both institutions declined to support research proposals. [...]
Geopolymer cement for storage of toxic and radioactive wastes
GEOpolymeric Cements for Innocuous Stabilisation of Toxic EleMents Geosynthesis of Rock-based Geopolymer cements was the objective of the European multidisciplinary BriteEuram industrial research project GEOCISTEM. The project titled cost effective GEOpolymeric Cements for Innocuous Stabilization of Toxic EleMents, in short GEOCISTEM, started on Jan. 1994 and has been completed on June 1997. In J. Davidovits’ [...]
LTGS Brick, low cost construction material
A low cost, easy to produce solution The geopolymer LTGS brick is an ideal construction technology for emerging countries, because it offers many characteristics that fulfils the population demands. This brick uses a very cheap material available in great quantity: lateritic clay earth. This special and abundant earth, mixed with a simple geopolymer binder is [...]
Cements, Concretes, Toxic Wastes, Global Warming
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 [...]
#16: Environmentally Driven Geopolymer Cement Applications
Environmentally Driven Geopolymer Cement Applications. by Joseph Davidovits Invited Paper, Geopolymer 2002 International Conference, October 28-29, Melbourne, Australia Environmentally driven geopolymer applications are based on the implementation of (K,Ca)-Poly(sialate-siloxo) / (K,Ca)-Poly(sialate-disiloxo) cements. In industrialized countries (Western countries) emphasis is put on toxic waste (heavy metals) and radioactive waste safe containment. On the opposite, in emerging [...]
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