More environmentally-friendly concrete made using sugar cane residue

Monday, January 4, 2016 - 10:05 in Mathematics & Economics

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Polytechnic University of Valencia, UPV) and San Paolo State University (Unesp) have developed a new type of concrete that is cheaper and much less polluting to the environment. They have done so by swapping in sugar cane straw ash, a crop residue typically discarded as waste, as a substitute for Portland cement.

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