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Prometheus Materials awarded role in US$10 million Department of Energy grant for carbon dioxide removal in cement and concrete

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is providing US$10 million in funding to their US Department of Energy (NREL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to collaborate with Prometheus Materials – and a distinguished team of partner institutions – to establish methods for measuring, reporting and verifying CO2 removal and sequestration in cement and concrete.

 
 
 
 

Success with siloxane

Dr. Dmitry Davydov, James D. Greene and Dr. Wei Cai, WACKER, explain how cementitious materials can be protected and improved using oligomeric siloxane based technology.

 

Water-reducing additives: cutting costs and emissions

Thaís Araujo Lemos da Silva, Potito D’Arcangelo and Fengjuan Liu, MAPEI, explain how water reducing additives can help to achieve sustainability and reduce the costs of cement and concrete production.