Experimental Study on Partial Replacement of Sugarcane Bagasse Ash in M20 Concrete

Abstract

Ordinary Portland cement is recognized at a major construction material throughout the world. All over the world today are focusing on ways of utilizing either industrial or agricultural waste, as a source of raw material for industries. This waste utilization would not only be economical, but they also result in foreign exchange earnings and environmental pollution control as industrial waste, such as blast furnace slag, fly ash and silica fume are being used as supplementary cementing material (SCMs) currently there has been on attempt to utilize the large amount of bagasse ash, the residual from sugar industry and the bagasse biomass fuel in electric generation industry. The utilization of industrial and agricultural waste produced by industrial process has been the focus of waste reduction for economically, environmental and technically reason. Sugarcane bagasse ash is fibrous waste product of the sugar refining industry along with ethanol vapor. Bagasse ash mainly contained aluminum iron and silica. The present study is aimed at utilizing sugarcane bagasse ash concrete with partial replacement of cement. The replacement is done at various percentage like 5% and 13% its effect on properties of concrete was investigate. Fresh and hardened properties were exercised with various replacement level. The study indicate that sugarcane bagasse ash can effectively be used as cement replacement (up to15%) without substantial change in strength.