Main Partners

Technical and Testing Institute of Construction, non-profit organization, Studená 3, 821 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, PB 4760 Sluppen, Trondheim, Kingdom of Norway Považská Cementáreň, a.s., Ulica J. Kráľa, 018 63 Ladce, Slovak Republic

Invited Research Institutions
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Subotica, Kozaračka 2a, 24000 Subotica, Republic of Serbia VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Mining and Geology, 17. listopadu 15/2172, 708 33 Ostrava, Czech Republic

Project Objectives:

Exchange of experiences and finding common solutions in the development of next-generation cements

• based on new raw material base for cement clinker production and modern progressive technologies for the production of concrete and high-performance concrete in aggressive environments,
• with a special focus on the development of environmentally-friendly cements and special cements with exceptional performance properties.

"The project is supported by the EEA Grants and Norwegian Grants."

Specification of the Workshop Results for the NOVACEM Project

The NOVACEM project workshop took place on May 5, 2015, at Hotel Kamila in Chorvátsky Grob near Bratislava, and on May 6 at Považská Cementáreň, a.s., Ladce (PCLA). The event was professionally supervised by the Technical and Testing Institute of Construction, Bratislava (TSÚS), and SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, Trondheim, representing the Slovak and Norwegian sides. The organization of the event was carried out by TSÚS and PCLA. The research results were presented to production technologists and sales representatives in the cement plant to transform the scientific findings into production practice.

The main scientific focus of the workshop was the research and development of next-generation cements based on previously unused non-metallic raw material - marl, which is owned by PCLA in the Slovak Republic, and the two-year research experience of Norwegian partners with marl from their domestic sources. The Slovak side informed the Norwegian partners about domestic research on hybrid cement H-CEMENT and special cement NONRIVAL, which has been carried out by PCLA as the contracting authority and TSÚS as the researcher since 2012 until today.

Within the multidisciplinary scientific perspective on marl, Slovak specialists in clay chemistry from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, along with an expert from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, were invited to the workshop at the request of Považská Cementáreň, a.s. (PCLA), as specialists in innovative types of ceramic concrete. The attached brochure (currently being prepared) provides a brief written form of the research outputs so far in Norway and Slovakia.

On May 7, 2015, representatives from TSÚS and SINTEF informed Her Excellency the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway about the results of their cooperation during a one-hour audience. They unanimously confirmed their desire to continue this collaboration in a major research project at a bilateral level or within a pan-European context. Both parties declared exceptional professional and, after the workshop, also friendly relations. PCLA invited one of the Norwegian partners for a short-term work stay planned for 2016.

NOVACEM Brochure...
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The NOVACEM project workshop
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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