Products, including treatment compositions, and methods for improving cement performance are provided. More specifically, products and methods for improving cement hydration, and thus cement performance, using vegetation are provided. The vegetation may be processed into a vegetative extract that may be used to create a treatment composition. The treatment composition may be used to enhance hydration of cement. The products and methods disclosed herein may be used to create a stronger, lower cost, and longer-lasting cementitious product.

A system for and method of, processing post-consumer and post-industrial waste streams, producing active ingredients for waste stream processing, processing aqueous waste streams, preparing and collecting a multi-purpose chemical precursor, removing phosphates, nitrates, heavy metals, and other contaminants from aqueous waste streams, collecting and processing a post-consumer and post-industrial product from aqueous waste streams, administering and positioning assets and processes associated with waste stream processing, and scheduling operations for sub-systems of the system.

A method for preparing ceramsite by using municipal sludge as raw material, including the following specific steps: drying; preparing ingredients including raw sludge, fly ash, kaolinite, steelmaking slag, zeolite, hematite, calcareous shale, waste incineration fly ash, Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, waste glass, calcium carbonate, sodium lauryl sulfate, and sodium benzoate; mixing and stirring uniformly, and putting the stirred materials into a granulating machine for granulation; drying and preheating the material pellets after granulation, and then quickly transferring to a sintering device for first sintering at a low temperature and then sintering at a high temperature; crushing large chunks of the cooled materials; and separating and screening the crushed materials. The method of the present invention reduces the generation of the large chunks of the cooled materials in the obtained ceramsite, thereby reducing the subsequent crushing work and saving energy consumption accordingly.

A lightweight composite composition includes a plurality of lightweight particles including a volume of at least about 10% of a total volume of the lightweight composite composition. The plurality of lightweight particles includes an average bulk density within a range from about 0.001 g/cc to about 1.5 g/cc and an average particle size within a range from about 0.01 microns to about 90 mm. Methods of manufacturing a lightweight composite composition are provided.

A lightweight composite composition includes a plurality of lightweight particles including a volume of at least about 10% of a total volume of the lightweight composite composition. The plurality of lightweight particles includes an average bulk density within a range from about 0.001 g/cc to about 1.5 g/cc and an average particle size within a range from about 0.01 microns to about 90 mm. Methods of manufacturing a lightweight composite composition are provided.

Hemp straw is ground and burnt to result in hemp straw ash for making concrete. The hemp straw ash is mixed with water, cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and superplasticizer using a two-step addition process to form a concrete mixture. The two-step addition process follows a specific order for the addition of the materials to a concrete mixer drum. Concrete made using the hemp straw ash is useful for lower-strength applications.

A cement composition including a dry phase and a liquid phase. The dry phase includes an aluminosilicate source, including amorphous bagasse ash with a concentration between 40 wt. % and 100 wt. % of the weight of the dry phase. The liquid phase includes at least one of water and an alkaline activator solution. The alkaline activator solution includes at least one of an alkali metal stearate, an alkali metal silicate, and an alkali metal hydroxide.

Hemp straw is ground and burnt to result in hemp straw ash for making concrete. The hemp straw ash is mixed with water, cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and superplasticizer using a two-step addition process to form a concrete mixture. The two-step addition process follows a specific order for the addition of the materials to a concrete mixer drum. Concrete made using the hemp straw ash is useful for lower-strength applications.

Methods of wellbore cementing are provided. A method of cementing may comprise: calculating a lime to silica correlation for two or more cementitious components of a cement composition; and adjusting a concentration of at least one of the cementitious components such that the lime to silica correlation meets or exceeds a target.

Methods of wellbore cementing are provided. A method of cementing may comprise: calculating a lime to silica correlation for two or more cementitious components of a cement composition; and adjusting a concentration of at least one of the cementitious components such that the lime to silica correlation meets or exceeds a target.