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Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation
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“Nonetheless, the large amount of cement used in products to date, arguably renders recarbonation a sizeable global CO2 sink which is not yet fully accounted for in climate models and mitigation plans [12 -16].”
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“Up to 16 Gt CO 2 was sequestered in human infrastructure as mineralized carbonates in cement between 1930 and 2013, with current rates 20,21 estimated to be around 1 Gt CO 2 yr -1 .”
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- Xi, F., Davis, S. J., Ciais, P., Crawford-Brown, D., Guan, D., Pade, C., Shi, T., Syddall, M., Lv, J., Ji, L., Bing, L., Wang, J., Wei, W., Yang, K.-H., Lagerblad, B., Galan, I., Andrade, C., Zhang, Y., & Liu, Z.
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
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- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Danish Technological Institute (DK)
- Shenyang Jianzhu University (CN)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Shenyang Agricultural University (CN)
- Kyonggi University (KR)
- Instituto de Ciencias de La Construcción Eduardo Torroja (ES)
- Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (CN)
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Zhu
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- Nature Geoscience
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- 2016-11-21
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- 880-883
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- 1752-0908
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- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41473076, 41501605, 31100346, 51578344)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/N00714X/1)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Concrete and Cement Materials Research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Chemical Engineering › Filtration and Separation › Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
- Keywords
- cement carbonation, CO2 sequestration, carbon sink, cement industry emissions, carbon cycle, concrete waste, demolition, emission inventory, process emissions
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