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Al-jburi Najad A. A.*, Hasan Kareem, J.K. , Noor Azline and Nima Ostovar
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia,
43400UPM
*angid.amer51@gmail.com
Abstract: The industries of Cement and glass are dealing with a variety of demanding
situations due to the excessive factories gases emissions, the extensive use of power and the
intensive use of the earth's natural resources. The temporary landfills of dumping waste glass
are now not providing a friendly environment, because of waste glass particle are non-
biodegradable. Furthermore, the chemical structure and the pozzolanic characteristics of waste
glass are inspiring for using this waste in the cement industries and urban industries and to
provide an environmentally friendly answer for the glass and cement industries. Thus, it can be
used as a partial cement replacement in Portland cement concrete or as a partial replacement in
the form of waste glass powder (WGP) or as waste glass sludge (WGS). The use of glass
powder in Portland cement concrete does have some negative impact on characteristics of the
concrete; however, waste glass in its crushed condition can be use in about 100 % and it can
still be a practical applicability. This paper reviews the unusual uses of waste glass in cement
and concrete and the effect of thermal and pozzolanic activity on the properties of waste glass
the impact of the glass characteristics on the durability and performance of the produced
cement and concrete.
1. Introduction
Glass waste is one of the major problems on the environment that happens in every country in the
world [1]. Because of the nature of glass is non-biodegradable, and the ability to trigger a severe
environmental pollution. Similarly, the nonexistence of area for new depot is a difficulty which cities
are facing to, that are overpopulated in several regions around the world; therefore, a considerable part
of the landfills spaces was occupied by these materials. The best solution to reduce the influence of
these glass wastes on the environment is by using them again. The process of recycling of glass wastes
have lots of benefits for the resources on earth and could reduce the landfills spaces and save energy
and money for [2]. The demand for low-quality provisions, large supplies and the significant
construction and building sites make civil engineering and construction one of the main means to
solve the environmental problem of the waste glass.
The time, place, or the methods that how human population was taught to make glass is uncertain.
In Iraq about 3000 years ago. Firstly hand-made glass was found, and the initial glass containers were
built, around1500 years ago, in Iraq and Egypt [3,4]. Since the furnaces and oven were, the clay pots
making quality was not fine and the amount of heat was not enough for melting the uncooked
materials the glass industry was in that time costly and slow. In about 30 B.C., The blowpipe was
invented which made the glass manufacture easier, cheaper, and faster eventually this invention made
glass became possible and normal for ordinary people to use the glass for their own for the first time in
the human history [3,4]. Through the introduction of manganese oxide, the glass which does not have
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any color in the early A.D. century, [3,4]. In 1674, a new type of glass was invented by George
Ravenscroft called lead glass which developed using a significant amount of lead oxide in the rare
material. In France, researchers found a novel way to produce plate glass in 1688. This production led
to make high-quality mirrors. In 1910 Edouard Benedictus in France made a novel type of Triple glass
which was made by lamination method. Recently, Britain Pilkington Brothers Ltd. In 1959 invented a
new process of making flate plate [3,4].
The glass manufacturing could be achieved by melting the combination of sodium carbonate, silica,
limestone (CaCO3) and dolomite (Ca Mg(CO3)2) by making it in high temperature to about1500 °C.
The blended and mixed material then chilled to harden without being crystallize. Specific
characteristics of glass like its color can be achieved by using a special additive [5].
There are lots of variety glasses in the market, based on the chemical configuration and the usage
of additives, like: alkali silicates, vitreous silica , borosilicate glasses, barium glasses (TV screen and
optical dense barium crown), soda-lime glasses (bottles ,light bulbs, jars, and windowpanes), lead
glasses (TV funnel, neon tubes), aluminosilicate glasses (gauge glasses for high-pressure steam
boilers, halogen-tungsten lamps , screen protectors for mobile) and. These glasses are made in various
colors, most of them green, colorless and brown [6].
Because of the absence of information from different regions around the world, such as the North
Africa East as an example, statistically, the data is not clear about the amount of glass which is wasted
in the world. Based on wasting data base there was 200 million toms solid waste in 2004 and about
glass part was about 7 %s, i.e., according to information which was extracted from the estimation of
the solid waste of UN,14 million tons were waste glass [7].
The earth’s natural raw resources are being used in a considerable amount by the glass industry. It
can be said that it is needed to use 1.73 kg of raw materials and 0.15 m3 water to produce one kg of
sheet glass [8]. Also, it was shown in previous studies that to make every one tone of container glass
1.2 tone of expensive raw material should be used [9].
Also, due to the need for a high temperature to liquefy the raw materials, glass industry could be
said that is one of the most energy consumer industries in all around the world. Approximately each
kilo gram of glass sheet can produce 16.9 MJ of the heating waste [8]. The process of making a ton of
European glass used 7.8 GJ energy. The total amount of the energy which was consumed was about
352 PJ in 2007, it can be seen that this amount is about 13-17% of the whole energy which was used in
Europe [10].
In different circumstances, too much usage of energy is lead to a high amount CO2released. In 2007, It
was revealed, that the producing a ton of the European glass can lead to produce 0.57 ton of CO2 [10].
It was indicated that 0.2 ton of CO2 releases in melting step of container glass created [9].
Basically, the production of the container glass and the glass wool is widely using the cullet (Can be
named as recyclable crush waste glass) [10]. The energy consumption can be reduced by 2–3% by
mounting the cult usage by 10% in the glass with the raw materials [10]. Also, 40% of energy
consuming is needed to make glass from sand [11]. Glass is able to be recycled completely without
any change in physical and chemical characteristics. Other than, because the crushed waste glass can
cause a variation in the chemical composition of the recycled glass its makes the recycling process
impractical and highly expensive [12]. Impurities and polluter which is found in the waste glass can
make the new produced glass effected [12].
The ratio of recycled wasted glass in entire world is negligible, and most of it focused on the
container and packaging section [1]. For example in US only 27% of the glasses produced by
recycling which was about 11.5 million tons [13]. 4.1 million tons in 2008 is the estimated total of
glass waste in EU countries with 60% recycling ratio [14]. In Sweden, in 2010 this amount was about
95% for separate color waste utilized in making bottles and container glass [15].
Cement and concrete industry which are part of the Construction industry, provide a fundamental
and helpful to use in environmental effects of glass waste, because of physical and chemical structure
of glass which are like sand and cement. The earth’s natural resources are conserved by the use of
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waste glass in the production of cement and concrete; additionally, the use of waste glass in the
production of concrete saves resources, financial investment and decreases the released of harmful
gas.
This paper will represent an overview of many studies that have illustrated the usage of waste glass
in making concrete and cement. Some researchers have studied about used waste glass as a powder,
others used it as a cement replacement, and some others used it as a glass powder and glass sludge
wastes in the same mixture. And it will illustrate the properties and thermal behavior of the waste
glass.
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Figure 1. show the different reaction of Glass powder paste to the different range of temperature using
scanning electron microscope (SEM) [19].
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of alternative plus the size and distribution of the glass particles appear to be of crucial significance for
the advantage of pozzolanic interest to come to be evident in the short-term.
Penacho (2014), [23] studied the use mortars with a cement-to-sand a volume proportion of 1 to 4
were formed with a portion of the sand changed by fine glass aggregates, while the aggregate's size
distribution in the replacement remained the same. The outcome illustrate that the mixture of 20%
substitute of sand and fine glass aggregates could be used for interior and inside the building or in the
façades. To have elevated replacement ratios, even taking into account the reasonable function in the
ASR tests [1], the worse behavior in the mixing with water indicates that these mortars have better
function in interior applications.
Choi (2017), [24]considered the appropriateness of heavyweight WG as an admirable aggregate
material is considered. The consequences of flow test, unit volume weight, radiation shielding
performance, compressive strength, flexural strength, and micropore and macropore distribution of
mortar are compared and rated. It was shown that the heavyweight waste glass may be used as an
excellent aggregate material in the radiation shielding concrete.
Ling (2017), [25] deliberate although there is not too high difference in density in using of
fluorescent glass (FG) up to 40% replacement sand, showed an improvement in practical and make the
cement mortar to have less shrinkage. To compare these two issue, there could be said that the
reduction of mechanical strength for a given content of with fluorescent glass (FG-A) usage in mortar
is fairly lower than that of without fluorescent glass (FG-b). The mortars prepared with FG-A or FG-B
failed the permissible ASR limit of 0.1%. There should be more investigation in safety of FG.
Liu (2017), [26]investigated about a replacement for sand contributes for plummeting natural
aggregate using and the disposal of CRT funnel glass and he found out cycled cathode ray tube (CRT)
funnel glass could be used as a replacement. GFA has more significant incompatible influence on
flexural strength than compressive strength. The storage modulus first grows and then decline with
temperature for almost all samples. The influence of CRT glass on the loss tangent of mortar relies on
the replacement ratio. It can be seen that a frequency dependent on damping model is required when a
dynamic analysis is used in building with the usage of fused CRT glass in not hot weather.
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Figure 3. show the different kind of glasses incorporated in the paste in compare to the main sample
using scanning electron microscope (SEM) [28].
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integration in concrete mixture approximately decrease porosity due to their pozzolanic action due to
the essential WGS amorphous nature. Surveys on chloride ions and frost resistance infiltrability
further confirmed that those glass wastes are better in enhancing the one's properties. WGS
incorporation caused 24% good deal in the coefficient of chloride ion diffusion. Summarily, the effects
advise that WGS is advanced in improving, durability microstructural, and mechanical associated
characteristics of concrete.
Figure 4. Two types of (WGS) as (a) cake, and (b) powder [36].
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8. Conclusions
Because the nature of glass being nonbiodegradable make disposal a very challenging mission for
every country around the world due to the high cost and the bad environmental effect, because of the
high carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere, it’s one of the causes of the global warming, using
the glass in the construction industry will be the best environmentally friendly solution.
The reviewed studies showed that the optimum usage of waste glass as a partial replacement in
cement is around (15 %,16 %, 17.5 % or 20 %) as an aggregate and fine, for using waste glass sludge
the optimum usage will be around 10 %. Results show that high curing temperature is effective in
promoting the pozzolanic response of glass powder and enhancing the mechanical and overall
microstructure performance, furthermore, it considerably reduced the thermal conductivity of the
cement mortars. The increase in the temperatures and the decreasing in particle sizes cause glass
powder to exhibit significant pozzolanic reaction.
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