Experimental Study on Engineering Properties of Concrete with Aggregates Partially Replaced by Crushed PET and Cement by Sugar Molasses

Sugar industry earmarked its significance among all agro based industries. It brings smile to 50,000,000 sugarcane farmers by processing their harvest and provides livelihood and employment to millions of workers. Brazil produces highest sugar in terms of quantum. India stood second in the row with 800 sugar factories and 310 lakh MT production of sugar every year. Not only production of sugar for its consumer, but also there are no quantitative restrictions on by products like molasses, mud, ethanol, etc. These are primarily categorised in four varying sorts bagasse cane top, ethanol, filtered mud and molasses. Molasses are rich in sugar content and comprises 40 60 of sugar. There are no hard and fast rules for safe disposal of these by products, thus imposing problem to both environment and sugar industry. Molasses are used in the present investigation for strengthening of concrete. The molasses content was retrieved from GMS Sugar mill, Panipat, Haryana. The prime objectives or the foremost goals for which this investigation is carried out are to understand the characteristic features of Molasses and PET, to investigate hardening setting time and fluidity of cement after incorporation of PET and molasses and to find the compressive and split tensile strength values of modified concrete mix. Molasses content in present work ranges between 0.1 and 0.4 and PET content was 5 and 10 . Design mix with 0.2 molasses weight of cement and 7.5 PET bottle waste weight of fine aggregates i.e. sand showed most optimum results in case of compressive and tensile strength. On addition of higher quantities, the weight of concrete reduces drastically leading to steep decline in strength characteristics. Thus the optimum dosage recommended by present investigation for molasses and PET are 0.2 and 7.5 respectively Vikas Jaglan | Sunil Kumar "Experimental Study on Engineering Properties of Concrete with Aggregates Partially Replaced by Crushed PET and Cement by Sugar Molasses" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-1 , December 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd47839.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/civil-engineering/47839/experimental-study-on-engineering-properties-of-concrete-with-aggregates-partially-replaced-by-crushed-pet-and-cement-by-sugar-molasses/vikas-jaglan