The utilization of industrial and agricultural waste produced by industrial
processes has been the focus of waste reduction research for economical, environmental,
and technical reasons. Sugar-cane bagasse is a fibrous waste-product of the sugar refining
industry, along with ethanol vapor. This waste product (Sugar-cane Bagasse ash) is already
causing serious environmental pollution, which calls for urgent ways of handling the waste.
Bagasse ash mainly contains aluminum ion and silica. In this paper, Bagasse ash has been
chemically and physically characterized, and partially replaced in the ratio of 0%, 5%,
15% and 25% by weight of cement in concrete. Fresh concrete tests like compaction factor
test and slump cone test were undertaken was well as hardened concrete tests like
compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and modulus of elasticity at
the age of seven and 28 days was obtained. The result shows that the strength of concrete
increased as percentage of bagasse ash replacement increased.