A way to reuse petrochemical wastes through the partial substitution of cement by spent cracking catalyst and its effect on cement pastes
Paweł Niewiadomski, Michał Cisiński, Barbara Batog, Agnieszka Chowaniec-Michalak, Elżbieta Janowska-Renkas, Martyna Nieświec · 2025
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Spent catalyst from oil cracking ends its life in dumps, though its bones are the stuff cement loves. Paweł Niewiadomski and five co-authors ground Polish refinery waste into cement pastes in 2025, swapping it for up to a fifth of the cement. The waste is near nine-tenths glass and alumina, and bench tests showed it hungry to bind lime, the mark of a true cement helper.
Pastes with the swap set as firm as plain ones, and their crush strength rose by up to a sixth at the best shares. Flow, bend, and soak stayed near par. Three water shares told the same tale. The team frame the swap as a double win: less dump fill, less fresh cement burned.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Paweł Niewiadomski, Michał Cisiński, Barbara Batog, Agnieszka Chowaniec-Michalak, Elżbieta Janowska-Renkas, Martyna Nieświec |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |