EXPERIMENTALINVESTIGATION ON PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT BY SUGARCANE BAGASSE ASH

We are aware that a lot of damages done to environment in the manufacture of cement. It involves lot of carbon emission associated with other chemicals. The researches has shown that every one ton of cement manufacture releases half ton of carbon dioxide, so there is an immediate need to control the usage of cement. On the hand materials wastes such as Sugar Cane Bagasse Ash is difficult to dispose which in return is environmental Hazard. The Bagasse ash imparts high early strength to mortar and also reduce the permeability of mortar. The Silica present in the Bagasse ash reacts with components of cement during hydration and imparts additional properties such as chloride resistance, corrosion resistance etc. Therefore the use of Bagasse ash in concrete not only reduces the environmental pollution but also enhances the properties of mortar and also reduces the cost. It makes the mortar more durable. This project mainly deals with the replacement of cement with Bagasse ash in fixed proportions and analyzing the effect of HCl on SCBA blended mortar. The mortar mix designed by varying the proportions of Bagasse ash for 10%, 20%, 30%, the cubes are been casted and cured in normal water and 5% HCl solution for ages of 7, 14, 28 days. The test result indicate that the strength of mortar increase in adding 5% Sugarcane Bagasse Ash (SCBA) replacemen wuth cement.