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Biopolymers and Biotech Admixtures for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials F. Pacheco-Torgal (Principal Investigator, CTAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.)

Biopolymers and Biotech Admixtures for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials By F. Pacheco-Torgal (Principal Investigator, CTAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.)

Biopolymers and Biotech Admixtures for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials by F. Pacheco-Torgal (Principal Investigator, CTAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.)


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Biopolymers and Biotech Admixtures for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials by F. Pacheco-Torgal (Principal Investigator, CTAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.)

Since 1930 more than 100,000 new chemical compounds have been developed and insufficient information exists on the health assessment of 95 percent of these chemicals in which a relevant percentage are used in construction products. For instance Portland cement concrete, the most used material on the Planet (10.000 million tons/year that in the next 40 years will increase around 100 %) currently used in around 15% of total concrete production contains chemicals used to modify their properties, either in the fresh or hardened state. Biopolymers are materials that are developed from natural resources. They reduce dependence on fossil fuels and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. There is a worldwide demand to replace petroleum-based materials with renewable resources. Currently bio-admixtures represent just a small fraction of the chemical admixtures market (around 20%) but with environmental awareness for constituents in construction materials generally growing (the Construction Products Regulation is being enforced in Europe since 2013), the trend towards bio-admixtures is expected to continue. This book provides an updated state-of-the-art review on biopolymers and their influence and use as admixtures in the development of eco-efficient construction materials.

Biopolymers and Biotech Admixtures for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials Reviews

The book provides basic concepts, production aspects and environmental impact assessment on the use of biopolymers and biotech admixtures ... It provides new knowledge, is well structured, really up-to-date, and has an enormous number of references. --Professor Lech Czarnecki, Building Research Institute, Poland (from the foreword)

About F. Pacheco-Torgal (Principal Investigator, CTAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.)

F. Pacheco-Torgal is a principal investigator at the CTAC Research Unit, University of Minho, Portugal. He currently holds the title of Counsellor from the Portuguese Engineers Association. Since 2019, he is a Scopus Highly Cited Scientist (SHCS) as per the Stanford University ranking. He has been a member of the editorial board of 9 international journals, 7 being indexed on Scopus or Web of Science, with the latest being Case Studies in Construction Materials since early 2023. Over the past 10 years he's participated in the editorial decisions of 606 journal papers. Prof. Pacheco-Torgal acted as a foreign expert in the evaluation of 29 PhD thesis and has been a member of the scientific committee of almost 60 conferences stretching back a decade, most of these in Asia. He is a grant assessor for several scientific institutions across 15 countries: the United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Croatia, and Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years he has reviewed approaching 80 research projects and has been an invited reviewer for 150 international journals, for which he has reviewed 1764 papers so far. He has been the lead editor of 27 books published across Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier, and Springer, 25 of these being indexed on Scopus or in the Master Book List of Web of Science. Dr. Volodymyr Ivanov has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience on Environmental, Industrial, and Construction Microbiology and Biotechnology in the universities of Europe, Asia, and USA. He has authored 200 papers, patents, book chapters and 8 monographs. His textbook Environmental Microbiology for Engineers, Francis & Taylor, 1st (2010) and 2nd (2015) editions, has been adopted for graduate and post-graduate courses in many universities. His research experience includes the supervision and participation in numerous projects on biotechnologies with biofilms and biogranules, microbial transformations of iron, biocementation, bioclogging, bioremediation of soil, and microbiological monitoring of water quality. Niranjan Karak is Professor of Polymer Science and Technology and Head of the Chemical Sciences Department at Tezpur University, India. He has published over 87 research papers, two books and two chapters in two edited books, and also regularly acts as a reviewer for many international polymer journals. Henk Jonkers is a leading researcher and expert on self-healing bio-concrete and the sustainability Chair Leader of the Materials and Environment section in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to biopolymers and biotech admixtures for eco-efficient construction materials Section One. Production of biopolymers for eco-efficient construction materials 2. Basic concepts on biopolymers and biotechnological admixtures for eco-efficient construction materials 3. Biotechnological production of biopolymers and admixtures for eco-efficient construction materials 4. Life cycle assessment of biopolymers Section Two. Biopolymers and biotech admixtures in cement and mortars 5. Biotech admixtures for enhancing portland cement hydration 6. Black liquor waste as a cement admixture or cement and concrete admixtures 7. High-performance superplasticizer based on chitosan 8. Microorganism-based bioplasticizer for cementitious materials 9. Fly ash-based geopolymer with kappa-carrageenan biopolymer Section Three. Biopolymers and biotech admixtures in concrete 10. Biopolymers with superplasticizer properties for concrete 11. Biopolymers with viscosity-enhancing properties for concrete 12. Biotech solutions for concrete repair with enhanced durability Section Four. Other biopolymer applications 13. Rigid biofoam composites as eco-efficient construction materials 14. Biopolymers for wood preservation 15. Biopolymers for paints and surface coatings 16. Bio-based adhesives 17. Biopolymers as biofilters and biobarriers 18. Biopolymers for superhydrophobic photocatalytic coatings

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NPB9780081002148
9780081002148
0081002149
Biopolymers and Biotech Admixtures for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials by F. Pacheco-Torgal (Principal Investigator, CTAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.)
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2016-01-18
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