This laboratory study showed the performance evaluations of a improved C12A7 based mineral accelerator (I-CA) by both mortar and shotcrete tests. Performance of I-CA as a shotcrete accelerator was excellent by KCI-SC-102, which is a Korean specifications of shotcrete accelerator. In addition, I-CA showed equal qualities to the setting time and the compressive strength when compared those of the existing C12A7 based mineral accelerator (CA). The I-CA was manufactured with 40wt.% of electric arc furnace reducing slag, 24wt.% of lime, and 36wt.% of bauxite, indicating that the commercialization of I-CA contributed to recycle electric arc furnace reducing slag and to reduce the manufacturing cost of C12A7 based mineral accelerator due to the use a cheap raw material(electric arc furnace reducing slag), and to reduce the greenhouse gas emission due to the reductions in usage of lime and bauxite.

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.