SYMPOSIUM and
ROUND TABLE TOPICS
The topics will include but are not limited to:
- Technologies and equipment for energy-saving and emission-reduction
- Nanotechnologies in cement and concrete production
- Waste re-use, encapsulation and processing using cement
- Sustainability issues
Biochar
- Life cycle assessment of biochar and biochar-containing products
- Carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) using biochar or other bio-based approach
- Pyrolysis and gasification process
- Biochar-based construction and building materials (will be cross-referenced with our "Cement & Concrete Symposium")
- Carbon credits and markets
- Soil and land remediation
- Biochar for methane removal
- Biochar and green hydrogen
- Nutrient, microbial and moisture carrier
- Feedstock for biochar - including woody biomass, animal manure, sludge, and food waste
- Utilization of by-products - including syngas, wood vinegar and bio-oil
- Startup and commercial perspectives of biochar
- Policy aspects of biochar applications and commercialization
- Biochar polymers: mechanical, thermal and electric properties. Flame retardant properties. Replacement of carbon black in polymers composites using biochar
Biochar Concrete and Cement
- Biochar concrete and other bio-concrete
- Carbon capture and utilization with concrete (eg. accelerated carbonation curing)
- Limestone calcined clay cement
- Carbon neutral or carbon negative cement
- Life cycle assessment of green concrete
- Self-healing concrete
- Concrete with novel properties
Low-energy manufacture and chemistry of clinker
- Chemistry of clinker formation
- Emission control
- Performance optimization
- Special types of clinker
Efficient utilization in concrete
- Accelerated carbonation curing
- Mineral and chemical admixtures
- Resistance to aggressive environment
- Physical characteristics and microstructure
- Alternative binders
- Service life and durability
