International Science Community Association Research Journal of Chemical Sciences 2231 - 606X 1 2 2011 May 18 Effect of Potassium Chloride (KCl) on Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) concrete 103 107 EN Manocha N. 1 Swami Vivekanand college of Pharmacy, Indore, INDIA Chandra S.K. 2 Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, INDIA Sharma V. 3 B.M College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Indore, INDIA Sangameswaran B. 4 Saluja M. 5 Sathyaraj A. 1 Swami Vivekanand college of Pharmacy, Indore, INDIA Satyanarayana V. 2 Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, INDIA Rao M.V.Basaveswara 3 B.M College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Indore, INDIA Pruthviraj R.D. 1 Dept. of Chemistry, Amruta Institute of Eng. and Mangt. Sci., Bidadi, Bangalore, INDIA Rao G.V. 1 CavinKare Research Centre, 12, Poonamalle Road, Ekkattuthangal, Chennai-600 032, INDIA Annamalai T. 2 Mukhopadhyay T. 3 Madhavi S 4 Machavolu Lakshmi 5 Mbabazi Jolocam 1 Department of Chemistry, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, UGANDA Ntale M. 2 Department of Chemistry, Kyambogo University, P.O. Box 1, Kyambogo, UGANDA Kwetegyeka J. 3 Department of Chemistry, Gulu University, P.O. Box 166, Gulu, UGANDA Mulongo G. 4 Twinomuhwezi H 5 Nnamuyomba P. 6 Benarjiand K.V. PatruduT. 1 Dept. of Chemistry, College of Eng., GITAM University, Hyderabad campus, Visakhapatnam, INDIA SangerS. H. 1 Dept. of Elec. and other Energy Sources, College of Agri. Eng. and Tech. DBSKKV, INDIA Mohod A.G. 2 Y.P. Khandetode 3 H.Y. Shrirame 4 Deshmukh A.S. 5 hivaraju P.H 1 Dept. of Environmental Science, Yuvaraja Collage, University of Mysore, Mysore, INDIA Olarinoye I.O. 1 Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Minna, NIGERIA Iorfa AdamuChristopher 1 Department of Geology, University of Calabar. P.M.B 1115, Calabar,NIGERIA Ntonzi NganjeTherese 2 Dept. of Chemistry, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurum, Delta State, NIGERIA Ukwang E.E. 3 Department of Chemistry, Cross River State University of Technology, NIGERIA Abara IBE Keneth 4 Peter Neji 5 Mbabazi Jolocam 1 Department of Chemistry, Makerere University, P. O. Box 7062, Kampala, UGANDA Solomon Yiga 2 Ssekaalo Henry 3 Sekkina MorsyM.Abou 1 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, EGYPT Salahuddin NehalA. 2 Ceramic Department, National Research center,Cairo, EGYPT. Elmaghraby A. 3 El-Ashry MonaY. 4 Chakrabarti S.K. 1 Dept. of Physics, M.M.A.M. Campus, Tribhuvan University, Biratnagar, NEPAL Yadav R.P. 2 Dept. of Chemistry, M.M.A.M. Campus, Tribhuvan University, Biratnagar, NEPAL Yadav R.N. 3 Dept. of Mathematics, M.M.A.M. Campus, Tribhuvan University, Biratnagar, NEPAL Reddy Venkateswara V. 1 JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad, INDIA Gnaneswar Kontham 2 Irrigation and CAD Department,TBP HLC Circle, Anantapur , INDIA Venkata RamanaNelluru 3 JNTUA College of Engineering, Anantapur, INDIA Sashidhar Chundupalli 4 > Research Paper 2011 4 12 2011 May 18 This paper presents the effect of Potassium chloride (KCL) on OPC concrete. The OPC concrete produced with KCLdosage of 0.5, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 g/lit added in deionised water and the same water is used in concrete mix (M20 and M50). In addition to this control specimens were prepared with deionised water (without KCL) for comparison. The compressive and tensile strengths were evaluated for 28 and 90 days. The results exhibit that, as KCLconcentration increases, there is increase in compression and tensile strengths. The X-ray diffraction analysis has been carried out at 10 g/lit concentration. Copyright@ International Science Community Association