• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2015

PURPOSES: This study investigates the mechanical performance of carbon-capturing concrete that mainly contains blast furnace slag. METHODS: The mixture variables were considered; these included Portland cement content, which was varied from 10% to 40% of the blast furnace slag by weight. The specimens were exposed to different conditions such as high $N_2$ and $O_2$ concentrations, laboratory conditions and high $CO_2$ conditions. Mechanical performances, including compressive and flexural strengths and carbon-capturing depth, were evaluated. RESULTS : The slump, air content and unit weight were not affected significantly by the variation in cement content. The strength development when the specimens were exposed to high purity air was slightly greater than that when exposed to high $CO_2$. As the cement content increased the compressive and flexural strength increased but not considerably. The carbon-capturing capacity decreased as the cement content increased. The specimens exposed in the field for 70 days had flexural strength greater than 3 MPa. CONCLUSIONS : The results indicate that cement content is not an important parameter in the development of compressive and flexural strengths. However, the carbon-capturing depth was higher for less cement content. Even after field exposure for 70 days, neither any significant damage on the surface nor any decrease in strength was observed.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권4_2호
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• pp.549-563
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• 2022

Continuous global warming is causing ecosystem destruction and direct damage to human life. The main cause of global warming is greenhouse gases, which account for more than 90 % of carbon dioxide. The leaders of each country signed the Paris Agreement at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, the total amount of CO₂ emitted from South Korea is 664.7 million tons as of 2018, ranking eighth in the world. 37 % of South Korea's total CO₂ emissions come from the construction & building field, especially the cement production, which is a construction material. Carbon reduction technologies can be largely divided into four types: carbon reduction (CC), carbon reduction and storage technology (CCS), carbon reduction and utilization technology (CCU), and carbon reduction, storage and utilization technology (CCUS). Overseas, CCUS technology is mainly applied to reduce and store CO₂ emitted from construction and construction field. A technology for permanently storing CO₂ through mineralization by capturing CO₂ and utilizing CO₂ into a cement production process was developed, and this technology is applied to the entire cement industry. However, the development of CCUS technology applicable to the cement industry is still insignificant in South Korea. In this study, carbon dioxide reduction technology and methods for reducing carbon dioxide emitted during the cement manufacturing process, which is the main component of concrete mainly used in civil engineering construction, were investigated. Overseas, it has reached the commercialization stage beyond the demonstration stage as a way to reduce carbon dioxide by vomiting carbonation reactions. Accordingly, if carbon dioxide reduction plan technology generated during cement manufacturing is developed based on domestic technology differentiated from foreign technology, it is expected to contribute one more step to the carbon neutrality policy.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.185-196
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• 2022

In this paper, the dynamic characteristics of a composite cylindrical beam made of a mechanism of carbon dioxide absorption coated on the tube core are investigated based on the classical beam theory coupled with the modified couple stress theory. The composite tube structures are assumed to be uniform along the tube length, and the energy method regarding the Hamilton principle is utilized for generating the governing equations. A powerful numerical solution, the generalized differential quadrature method (GDQM), is employed to solve the differential equations. The carbon dioxide trapping mechanism is a composite consisting of a polyacrylonitrile substrate and a cross-link polydimethylsiloxane gutter layer. Methacrylate, poly (ethylene glycol), methyl ether methacrylate, and three pedant methacrylates are all taken into account as potential mechanisms for capturing carbon dioxide. The application of the present study is helpful in the design and production of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and the different valuable parameters, such as the length-scale parameter, rate of section change, aspect ratio, etc., are presented in detail.

• 한국건설순환자원학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.425-432
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 바이오차를 혼입한 탄소 저감형 콘크리트 기술을 개발하고자 한다. 주요 인프라 분야인 건축과 터널에 단열성능과 탄소 포집이 가능한 바이오차를 혼입시킨 콘크리트의 성능 평가 실험을 수행하였다. 콘크리트 배합은 바이오차 혼입률 0, 5, 10, 15 및 20 %와 물-바인더 비를 0.25, 0.30, 0.35 및 0.40으로 선정하여 배합조건을 구성하였다. 각 배합별 물리적 특성을 평가하기 위해 단위중량, 총 공극률 및 투수계수를 측정하였고, 역학적 특성을 파악하기 위해 콘크리트 압축강도, 휨강도를 측정하였다. 바이오차를 혼입한 탄소 저감형 콘크리트의 단열 효과를 향상 시키기 위한 주요 인자는 회귀분석을 통해 바이오차 혼입률, 단위중량, 콘크리트 강도 및 열전도율은 서로 밀접한 상관관계를 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 향후 혹한기후 특성을 갖는 북방지역에 단열성능을 높이기 위한 단열재료로 활용될 것으로 판단된다.