GREEN CONCRETE

Prepared By:
Dhvani Sonani
M.E.structure

Guided By :
Dr.A.K.varma
Dr.D.R.bhatt

Overview of the
presentation
In this topic of green concrete, I would be
discussing about the following aspects of
green concrete.

Introduction
Genesis
Advantages
Production
Results of studies based on reported literature
Limitations
Scope in india
Conclusion

introduction
Green concrete is a revolutionary topic in the

history of concrete industry. This was first

invented in Denmark in the year 1998.
Green concrete is a type of concrete which

resembles the conventional concrete but the

production or usage of such concrete require
minimum amount of energy and causes least
harm to the environment.
Green concrete has nothing to do with color.

Background
Since concrete is the second most consumed entirely after water

it accounts for around 5% of the worlds total CO2 emission.

The co2 emission related to concrete production, inclusive of

cement production , is between 0.1 and 0.2 t per tonne of

produced concrete.
Though these figures might seem to be minute but owing to the

voluminous quantities of concrete produced each year, these

figures attain a colossal amount.
Further, due to increasing eco-awareness, the concrete producers

needed a new technology that would reduce the environmental

impact of concrete rather than switching to some substitute it.

Global green house gas emissions in

year 2000 ( GT of CO2 equivalents )
CO2

23. 90 fossil fuels,

3.94 deforestation
14.80 OTHER ghgs,
1.40 concrete
industry,

ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS
REDUCTION OF CO2 emissions by 21%
Increase the use of inorganic residual products from

industries other than the concrete industry by approx. 20%

the recycling capacity of the green concrete must not be

less compared to existing concrete types.

The production and the use of green concrete must not

deteriorate the working environment.

The structure do not impose much harm to the environment

During their service life.

Genesis
The increasing awareness and activity to conserve the

environment and the realization that concrete production

too release a considerable amount of CO2 in the
atmosphere were strong initiative to catalyze the genesis
of GREEN concrete.
In 1997, the kyoto protocol was signed which required

the countries to cut down their CO2 emissions as assigned.

After this, Denmark focused on cement and concrete

production because approximately 2% of denmarks total

co2 emission stems from cement and concrete production.

 Cement and concrete may have an important

role to play enabling the developed countries to

fulfill their obligation to reduce the total CO 2
emission by 21% compared to the 1990-level
before 2012, as agreed at the kyoto
conference.
A typical cubic yard (0.7642 m3 ) of concrete

contains about 10% by weight of cement. There

have been a number of articles written about
reducing the co2 emissions from concrete
primarily throught the use of lower amounts of
cement and higher amounts of supplementary
cementitious material (SCM) such as fly ash
and slag, which is using green concrete.

Advantages of green
concrete
Green concrete has manifold advantages over the

conventional concrete.
Reduces CO2 emissions, saves energy and waste water
Since it uses the recycled aggregates and materials, it

reduces the extra load in landfills and mitigates the

wastages of aggregates.
Economy.
Elemental to sustainable development since it is eco-

friendly itself.

 Helps in reducing the consumption of cement

overall.
The use of waste materials also solve the

problem of disposing the excessive amount

industrial wastes.
Green concrete might solve some of the

societies problems with the use of inorganic,

residual products which should otherwise be
deposited.
Use of fly ash in the concrete also increases its

workability and many other properties like

durability to an appreciable extent.

Production of green concrete

Different methods of green

concrete production
Residual
products from
other
industries

methods

Sewage sludge.
Incineration ash
Stone dust, concrete
slurry
Combustion ash from
water purifying plants

Supplementary
cementations
materials

Cement with
reduces
environmental
impact

Large qty. of fly ash

and micro silica
GGBS

Mineralised cement
Limestone addition