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Executive Summary<br />

VÄRMEFORSK<br />

Background<br />

Dredging for the development of ports and the maintenance dredging of waterways and<br />

ports means that large volumes of contaminated sediment need to be taken care of. The<br />

most troublesome are the sediments that are fine-grained and contaminated with metals,<br />

organic or organometallic (e.g. organotin) contaminants. Over the next few years, about<br />

200 000–800 000 m 3 of contaminated sediments h<strong>av</strong>e to be handled annually due to<br />

maintenance dredging and port expansions. Gävle Port alone shall dredge up to 1<br />

million m 3 of metal contaminated sediments during the years 2012–2014. These<br />

dredged materials are characterized by a muddy texture, high water ratio and low<br />

strength. The possibility of dumping at sea is limited since the dredged materials are<br />

contaminated. Moving the dredged materials to disposal sites on shore requires<br />

transportation and land area resulting in high costs. There is a great need to expand<br />

ports which means that large volumes of crushed rock and other earth materials are<br />

required to be transported to the port for the use in conventional construction of new<br />

port areas.<br />

The project STABCON (www.stabcon.com) has shown that a binder consisting of<br />

cement (construction cement) and Merit 5000 (steel slag), after stabilisation and solidification<br />

(s / s), can modify dredged materials so that predetermined geotechnical and<br />

environmental characteristics can be achieved. These masses can be used as filling<br />

materials in port structures and even replace crushed rock as filling material. Binder<br />

recipes are site specific and depend on, for example, sediment type/ dredged materials,<br />

contaminant type, contaminant content, etc. Stabilisation and solidification (s / s) means<br />

that binder is added to soft sediment / dredged materials in order to modify the strength,<br />

permeability and leaching characteristics. Stabilisation means that contaminants are<br />

chemically transformed into less mobile forms whilst solidification is a process which<br />

transforms the masses into a solid form leading to an increased strength, improved deformation<br />

characteristics and reduced permeability of dredged materials. The use of s / s<br />

treated contaminated dredged material in geotechnical constructions h<strong>av</strong>e been described<br />

in STABCON by Holm et al. (2009).<br />

Aims & Objectives<br />

The aim of this project was, from technical, environmental and economic aspects, to<br />

investigate the potential for a fly ash, or a combination of fly ashes, to be used as the<br />

components of a binder in the stabilisation and solidification of contaminated dredged<br />

material.<br />

The target audience has principally been port owners and other commercial proprietors<br />

whom are facing projects where contaminated sediments are to be disposed of. Binder<br />

producers, specifically fly ash producers, are also naturally targeted.<br />

Potential Assessment<br />

This Potential assessment has been carried out on five different fly ashes in a binder<br />

mix together with construction cement and Merit 5000 for s /s contaminated sediments<br />

from the Port of Gävle. The fly ashes’ potential was evaluated both by an inventory<br />

based on literature studies and interviews with fly ash producers and by laboratory<br />

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