Prior to presenting a detail review of previous studies on the laboratory scale
production of calcium sulfoaluminate based cements, various issues associated with
the Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) which is currently the most commonly used
type of cement in the world and sulfoaluminate-belite cement (SAB) which is one of
the special cements under investigation owing to their significant environmental
advantages with energy savings during manufacturing and potential use of fluidized
bed combustion (FBC) ashes as raw materials are overviewed.