Paper Title
Using Geopolymer Technology On Reutilization Of Bof Slag

Abstract
Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) Slag is the by-product of the iron making industry. It produced over 150 million tons annually in Taiwan. This kind of slag has great engineering properties, such as, high hardness and density, high compressive strength, low abrasion ratio, and can replace natural aggregate for building materials. However, BOF slag has the expansion problem, due to it contains free lime and MgO. The purpose of this study was to stabilize the BOF slag's expansion behavior by using geopolymer technology, hoping can prevent the expansion problem and reutilization successfully. The experimental results showed that using geopolymer technology can successfully prevent the expansion problem. The main properties are analyzed with regard to their use as building materials. Autoclave is used to study the volume stability of these specimens. Finally, the compressive strength of geopolymer mortar with BOF slag can be reached over 21MPa after curing for 28 days. After autoclave testing, the volume change rate can be controlled lower than 0.2%. In this study have success using these results on ready-mixed concrete plant, and have the same experiment results as laboratory scale, the specimen's compressive strength can be reached over 40MPa after curing for 28 days. These results gave encouragement that using geopolymer technology on reutilized BOF slag has a great potential. Index Terms - BOF slag, Geopolymer, Free lime, Swell behavior.