Captura de carbono em placas de concreto permeável

Abstract

The production of cement has an impact on the environment from the release of co2 where carbon dioxide acts directly on the phenomenon of "greenhouse effect". Although cement production generates high rates of carbon dioxide, cement hydration products have the ability to reabsorb carbon dioxide from a physical-chemical phenomenon called carbonation. This research related this physical-chemical phenomenon to a material considered sustainable, such as permeable concrete. This type of concrete can be used on non-reinforced floors. The research focuses on analyzing the ability to capture co2in permeable concrete slabs. As for carbonation, mixtures produced with two granulometric bands of pebble and CP II F agglomerate with a/c ratios of 0.33 and 0.37 were analyzed in protected and unprotected environments, and in an accelerated environment in a co2 chamber. A chemical phenolphthalein indicator was used to assess the occurrence of carbonation in five ages of reading and image analysis software to study the carbonated surfaces. The material showed satisfactory results in terms of mechanical, water and carbonation depth parameters, having reabsorbed the atmosphere gas from the cement paste that surrounds the aggregate grains of the material's granular skeleton.