Amendment of multi-binders was employed for the immobilization of metal(loid)s in field-contaminated soils to reduce the leaching potential. The effect of different types of multi-binders (lime/diammonium phosphate, diammonium phosphate/ladle slag and lime/ladle slag) on the solidification/ stabilization of metal(loid)s (Pb, Zn, Cu and As) from the smelter soil and mine tailing soil were investigated. The amended soils were evaluated by measuring Toxicity Characterization Leaching Procedure (TCLP) leaching concentration of metal(loid)s. The results show that the leaching concentration of metal(loid)s decreased with the immobilization using multi-binders. In terms of TCLP extraction, the mixed binder was effective in the order of lime/ladle slag > diammonium phosphate/ladle slag > lime/diammonium phosphate. When the mixed binder amendment (0.15 g lime+0.15 g ladle slag for 1g smelter soil and 0.05 g lime+0.1 g ladle slag for 1 g mine tailing soil, respectively) was used, the leaching concentration of metal(loid)s decreased by 90%. However, As leaching concentration increased with diammonium phosphate/lime and diammonium phosphate/ladle slag amendment competitive anion exchange between arsenic ion and phosphate ion from diammonium phosphate. The Standard, Measurements and Testing programme (SM&T) analysis indicated that fraction 1 (F1, exchangeable fraction) decreased, while fraction 4 (F4, residual fraction) increased. The increased immobilization efficiency was attributed to the increase in the F4 of the SM&T extraction. From this work, it was possible to suggest that both arsenic and heavy metals can be simultaneously immobilized by the amendment of multi-binder such as lime/ladle slag.

This study evaluated the standard consistency, setting time, hydration heat, and compressive strength of binary blended cement concrete (general and high strength) using air cooled ladle furnace slag (LFS) of 3, 5, 7, 10wt.% as an admixture for ordinary portland cement (OPC). Results showed that binary blended cements using the LFS of lower than 5wt.% shortened the setting time and reinforced the compressive strength of concrete (general and high-strength) compared to OPC concretes although binary blended cements needed more water to achieve the standard consistency. This indicated that LFS could be used as a useful admixture for manufacturing binary blended cement. Thus, we expected that the upcycling of LFS would be contributed to save energy consumption and reduce the greenhouse gas emission from the field of cement industry.

In this study, “Recycling of ladle furnace slag (LFS) in the electric furnace process to produce ultra rapid harding cement” is the target technology. Environmental and economic efficiencies of target technology are analyzed and ecoefficiency is assessed based on these results. The methodologies to analyze environmental and economic efficiencies are LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and market price which is calculated based on LCC (Life Cycle Costing), respectively. Global warming potential (GWP) and abiotic resource depletion (ARD) are selected as indicator of environmental analysis. The reference flow of this study is considered 1kg of ultra rapid harding cement which made from the LFS. As a result of that, target process has environmental efficiency of 13.1 for global warming and 5.93 for abiotic resource depletion and has economic efficiency of 4.86. Eco-efficiencies are derived from this study can be applied to slag recycling policy formulation and effect analysis in the future. This can be also applied to improve process’s environmental and economic performances.