Blue Sky Project Grant Winner 2023

Daria Kovaleva (ILEK)

The project investigates the possibility of achieving carbon neutrality of lightweight concrete structures through accelerated carbonation. The focus is on finding a combination of material, production, and structural parameters to create load-bearing structures capable of being fully carbonated. It is proposed to design and produce filigree structures with a favorable surface/volume ratio using specifically modified concrete mixes, and subject them to accelerated carbonation using captured CO2. The main risk can possibly lie in the mutually exclusive optima of the above-described parameters. This is to be mitigated by weighing the established criteria and adjusting the design parameters until the most favorable solution is obtained.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lucio Blandini