Core Technologies to Produce Zero-Carbon Cement and Concrete

Abstract

A major ingredient in concretes, cement is the second-largest industrial emitter of carbon dioxide after steel and iron industry and accounts for around 7% of global emissions of carbon dioxide. Cement plants that fail to adopt improved energy efficiencies and low-carbon processes might face dangers in the form of lost opportunity costs and possible punishments and charges for non-compliance by failing to innovate processes, with regulations of carbon emissions tightening internationally to meet the 2DS (two-degree scenario) targets.

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