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The pore structure of lightweight granules made from masonry rubble was studied in order to better understand their engineering properties. Thermally and hydrothermally hardened granules were tested. Analysis by ESEM, mercury porosimetry and sorption methods yield important insight into their microstructure. The thermal granules are characterised by partly melted vitreous areas and large internal macropores that are connected via narrow throats. They show a marginal specific surface area along with a hydrophobic behaviour. In contrast, the hydrothermal granules have an accessible mesoporous system containing plate-like and ink-bottle pores. The shape of their water isotherms depending on the granules CaO content is sensitive to the morphology of calcium silicate hydrate phases (CSH). The hysteresis changes from a narrow loop that closes at low pressures, which can be attributed to coarser more crystalline CSH, to a large triangular-shaped loop along with a low pressure hysteresis, which is characteristic for fine fibre-like CSH with ink-bottle and plate-like pore morphologies. Granules with fibre-like CSH have the higher specific surfaces areas but those with more crystalline CSH show stronger physisorption of water molecules.
At present, heterogeneous and fine-grained masonry rubble can only be recycled at very low level. To overcome this limitation, the material was employed as feedstock for the production of lightweight aggregates in a thermal process similar to that used in the manufacture of expanded clay and expanded slate. To that end, the fundamental suitability of masonry rubble as a raw material was evaluated. Experiments were carried out which indicated that lightweight granules with defined, adjustable properties similar to those of natural-material-based aggregates could be manufactured from masonry rubble. Structural lightweight concretes produced with these secondary aggregates achieved comparable performance to lightweight concretes produced with conventional expanded clay. Lightweight recycled building material aggregates represent a product that hardly requires any primary resources in its manufacture. In principle, the technique also seems to be well suited for high-quality recycling of other mineral waste materials.