The invention provides compositions and methods directed to carbonation of a cement mix during mixing. The carbonation may be in a stationary mixer or a transportable mixer, such as a drum of a ready-mix truck.

The invention is directed to compositions, tools and methods for the manufacture of construction materials, masonry, solid structures and compositions to facilitate dust control. More particularly, the invention is directed to the manufacture of bricks, masonry and other solid structures using small amount of aggregate material that is pre-loaded with spores and/or vegetative bacterial cells.

The invention relates to a new concrete admixture based on metal silicate hydrates and ettringite for improving the strength development at both early and longer ages of low-carbon cementitious compositions based on Portland cement and supplementary cementitious materials SCMs, including fly ash, slag, natural pozzolans, silica fume, calcined clays and fillers, such as limestone powder.

The invention comprises a product. The product comprises a carbonation aid or a microporous material or a combination thereof and a carbonatable mineral containing one or more of un-carbonated Ca, Mg, Na, K, Fe, wherein the carbonation aid facilitates the conversion of one or more of CaO, MgO, Na.sub.2O, K.sub.2O or FeO to a carbonate or a CO.sub.3 containing mineral in the presence of CO.sub.2, wherein the carbonatable mineral has a volume-based mean particle size of less than or equal to 100 m and wherein one or more of the carbonation aid or a microporous material or a combination thereof or the carbonatable mineral has carbon dioxide bound thereto at a concentration greater than its atmospheric concentration.

An aggregate (12, 16) is disclosed as including a core (12a) made at least partly of biochar (10, 14, 26, 28), and a shell (12b) encapsulating the core, the shell being made of ordinary portland cement (OPC) and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS). Structural concrete (30) including such an aggregate is also disclosed.

A method of providing a chemically inert concrete includes the steps of providing and mixing an aqueous colloidal silica dispersion with a quantity of glass particles. The chemically inert concrete includes, based on dry weight, about 50% to about 95% by weight of the glass particles and about 3% to about 40% by weight of the colloidal silica particles. The chemically inert concrete is substantially or totally free of Group I and Group II metal oxides, exclusive of the glass particles, and is substantially or totally free of cement.

Disclosed are spacer fluids and methods of use in subterranean formations. Embodiments may include use of consolidating spacer fluids in displacement of drilling fluids from a well bore annulus.

The invention provides compositions and methods directed to carbonation of a cement mix during mixing. The carbonation may be in a stationary mixer or a transportable mixer, such as a drum of a ready-mix truck.

Provided herein are systems and methods for use of carbon dioxide, such as carbon dioxide containing one or more contaminants, e.g., produced in processes where the carbon dioxide comes directly or indirectly from the atmosphere, in one or more systems to perform one or more processes that binds the carbon dioxide or one or more carbon dioxide reaction products with one or more reactants to produce one or more carbon dioxide sequestration products, for example, products that permanently sequester the carbon dioxide.

A ready-mixed composition and a pre-mix composition for the production of a concrete material containing sequestered carbon dioxide, a CO.sub.2-containing water used in such compositions, dry-batch and wet-batch processes for sequestering carbon dioxide in concrete material, general method and process for sequestering carbon dioxide in hardening concrete, system and ready-mixed truck to perform such processes and methods for the production of a ready-to-cure carbonated concrete. Compositions comprise a concrete mixture and a CO.sub.2-containing water. The CO.sub.2-containing water comprising water and at least one of blended CO.sub.2 gas bubbles, dissolved H.sub.2CO.sub.3, carbonate ions (CO.sub.3.sup.2), bicarbonate ions (HCO.sup.3), nanosized alkaline earth metal carbonate and nanosized alkali metal carbonate particles. The concrete mixture comprises a cementitious material, aggregates and at least one CO.sub.2-sequestering chemical for accelerating a CO.sub.2 sequestration speed and maximizing the captured amount of the carbon dioxide.