Use of Locally Available Sugarcane Bagasse Ash & Latex Polymer for the Partial Replacement of Cement & Fine Aggregate in Concrete

Abstract

There are lots of environmental impacts of cement on our ecology. Cement industry creating environmental problem by emission of CO₂ during manufacturing of cement. Today researchers are more focusing towards the environment issue globally. Portland cement is the conventional building material that actually is responsible for about 5%-8% of global CO₂ emissions. On the other side Sugar cane bagasse ash generated in sugar mill creating environment issue as most of the part is used as a land fill. In this work sugar cane bagasse ash which is taken from one of the sugar mill of Balod district of Chhattisgarh state and used in M-25 grade of concrete by replacing cement and fine aggregate in percentage by weight and compare with conventional concrete to check the feasibility of locally available sugar cane bagasse ash in concrete.

The addition of complex chemical compound in form of polymer in the form of binding and plasticizing agent, to the concrete mix also introduces the desired plasticity and strength to enhance the property of concrete w.r.t. the normal conventional concrete.

Fresh concrete tests like compaction factor test and slump cone test was examined as well as hardened concrete tests like compressive strength, rebound hammer test and flexural strength at the different ages of days is obtained according to feasibility. Results shows that there is decrease in slump value and compaction factor. Compressive strength and flexural strength of concrete decreases initially with the inclusion of SBA.