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<p>In countries that are big producers of olive oil such as Spain, Italy, or Greece, large amounts of olive husk remain as waste from processing olives and pose a serious environmental issue. One of the solutions could be to use this waste to partially replace sand in cement mortar to preserve the environment, decrease the consumption of cement, and improve economic benefits. This work presents our initial results which show the viability of using olive waste as an aggregate in cementitious mortars, indicating that the organic materials studied can be promising for this purpose.</p>
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In countries that are big producers of olive oil such as Spain, Italy, or Greece, large amounts of olive husk remain as waste from processing olives and pose a serious environmental issue. One of the solutions could be to use this waste to partially replace sand in cement mortar to preserve the environment, decrease the consumption of cement, and improve economic benefits. This work presents our initial results which show the viability of using olive waste as an aggregate in cementitious mortars, indicating that the organic materials studied can be promising for this purpose.

Properties of Olive Stones with a View to Their use as Lightweight Aggregate in Construction Mortars

Dept. of Materials Engineering and Physics

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering

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In countries that are big producers of olive oil such as Spain, Italy, or Greece, large amounts of olive husk remain as waste from processing olives and pose a...

Properties of Olive Stones with a View to Their use as Lightweight Aggregate in Construction Mortars

Published Online: Mar 30, 2024

Page range: 52 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2024-0007

Keywords
Olive waste, Water absorption, Aggregate

© 2024 Michal Kuruc et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Properties of Olive Stones with a View to Their use as Lightweight Aggregate in Construction Mortars

Published Online: Mar 30, 2024

Page range: 52 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2024-0007

KeywordsOlive waste, Water absorption, Aggregate

© 2024 Michal Kuruc et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Olive waste, Water absorption, Aggregate