S.C.S.M.C.O.E.

, NEPTI, AHMEDNAGAR

A
Seminar Report on

“QUARRY ROCK DUST AS A PARTIAL

REPLACEMENT OF FINE AGGREGATE”
Submitted By

Mr. GULAVE YOGESH SUNIL.

Under the guidance of :

Prof. S,M. PALASKAR
CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Availability
• Applications
• Disadvantages
• References
• Conclusion.
INTRODUCTION
••
• Green concrete is defined as a concrete which uses waste material as
at least one of its components; or its production process does not
lead to environmental destruction. In other words, green concrete is
an environment friendly concrete.
• Green concrete is very often also cheap to produce, because, for
example, waste products are used as a partial substitute for cement,
charges for the disposal of waste are avoided, energy consumption in
production is lower, and durability is greater .
• Quarry waste fine aggregate, which is generally considered as a waste
material after the extraction and processing of rocks to form fine
particles less than 4.75mm, causes an environmental load due to
disposal problem.
• Hence, the use of quarry waste fine aggregate in concrete mixtures will
reduce not only the demand for natural sand but also the environmental
burden [2].
• Moreover, the incorporation of quarry waste fine aggregate will offset the
production cost of concrete. In brief, the successful utilization of quarry
waste fine aggregate will turn this waste material into a valuable resource.
Availability
• Quarry Rock Dust can be defined as residue, tailing or other non-voluble waste material after
the extraction and processing of rocks to form fine particles less than 4.75mm. it is abundantly
available to an extent of 200 million tonnes per annum which has landfill disposal problems,
health hazard and Environmental problems.
• Usually, Quarry Rock Dust is used in large scale in the highways as a surface finishing material
and also used for manufacturing of hollow blocks and lightweight concrete prefabricated
Elements [9,10].
• The utilization of Quarry rock dust which can be called as manufactured sand has been
accepted as a building material in the industrially advanced countries of the west for the past
three decades.
• As a result of sustained research and developmental works under-taken with respect to
increasing application of this industrial waste. The level of utilization of Quarry Rock Dust in the
industrialized nations like Australia, France, Germany and UK has been reached more than 60%
of its total production.
 Applications of quarry rock dust:

• Quarry dust has been used for different activities in the construction
industry such as road construction and manufacture of building
materials such as light weight aggregates, bricks, and tiles.
• The use of quarry dust in concrete is desirable because of its benefits
such as useful disposal of byproducts.
• reduction of river sand consumption as well as increasing the
strength parameters and increasing the workability of concrete
• It is being used as surface dressing in highway work.
• It is also used in the manufacturing of building material,
such as lightweight aggregates, bricks, tiles and autoclave
blocks.
• Fiber-reinforced pre-cast units are also made up of this.
• It is used in synthetic rock and kerbs.
Few more uses are in embankment construction, landfill
capping, filler applications, manufactured sand, cement
making, green roofs, straw and clay blocks.
DISADVANTAGES

• Workability of concrete decrease made up of QD.

• The ordinary stone dust obtained from crushers does not comply
with IS: 383-1979.
• The presence of flaky, badly graded and rough textured particles
result in hash concrete for given design parameters.
References
• REFERENCES:
• 1. Shahul HameedMand Sekar A.S.S, “Properties of Green Concrete Containing Quarry Rock Dust
and Marble Sludge Powder as Fine Aggregate”, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
vol. 4, no. 4, june 2009, PP 83-89.
• 2. Ahmed E. Ahmed and Ahemed A. E. Kourd. 1989. Properties of concrete incorporating natural
and crushed stone very fine sand. ACI Material Journal. 86(4): 417-424.
• 3. Evaggelia Petavratzi, “ Sustainable Utilisation Of Quarry By-Products”, Minerals Industry Research
Organisation, English Heritage or The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2008.
• 4. Hardikkalpeshbhai Patel et.al, “A Study Of Utilization Aspect Of Quarry Dust In Indian Context”,
Journal Of International Academic Research For Multidisciplinary, Impact Factor 1.393, Volume 1,
Issue 9, October 2013.
• 5. Siddarth Pareek. 2001. Gainful utilization of Marble waste. An effort towards protection of
ecology
Conclusion

• From the above report study it is observed that, the Quarry Rock Dost is one of the
best alternative materials for the replacement of Sand to produce Environmental
friendly Green Concrete.
• In case of some quarry rock dost replacements some workability problems were
arrived but that can be over come by using the washed quarry dust or by using 50%
marble sludge powder in addition to mineral admixtures.
• The Physical and chemical properties of quarry rock dust have satisfied the
requirements of the codal provisions. Hence, Natural river sand, if replaced by
hundred percent Quarry Rock Dust from quarries, may sometimes give equal or
better than the reference concrete made with Natural Sand, in terms of
compressive, Split and flexural strength studies.
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