Cements blast furnace

Cathodic protection can be used to protect steel in concrete (see Chapter 19). There is no fear of damage by H2 evolution due to porosity of the mortar. Local corrosion attack can be observed under extreme conditions due to porosity (water/ cement ratio = 1) and polarization (f/jq = -0.98 V) with portland cement but not with blast furnace cement, corresponding to field IV in Fig. 2-2 [53]. However, such conditions do not occur in practice. 

GEM 111 (blast furnace cement) with addition of 36-95% blast furnace slag,... 

Pozzolanic and blast furnace cements (or, alternatively, addition of fly ash or GGBS to Portland cement at the mixing plant) may be the most suitable choice for many stmctures that are critical from the durability point of view. In fact, they reduce the rate of development of heat of hydration, they lead to a lower content of alkalis and Ume in the cement paste, and they can produce a denser cement paste. They should be preferred, for instance, for massive structures (to reduce the rate of development of heat of hydration), or in sulfate-contaminated environments (Section 3.3), when there is risk of ASR (Section 3.4), or in chloride-contaminated environments (Section 12.5.1). 

Generally, concrete used for water treatment plant pipes, water tanks, and filters is made using (ordinary) Portland cement, whereas cement-mortar linings can be made of diflerent types of cements, such as Portland cements, blast furnace cement or the non-Portland calcium aluminate cement. Each type of cement has a typical composition. Table 4.14 gives the typical composition of the primary cements used for manufacturing pipe. 

The full experimental procedure is summarized below. This full procedure has been applied only for the first mortar tested (ordinary Portland cement). Results from this first set of experiments have allowed some experimental conditions for further tests with blast furnace cement (BFC) and high alumina cement (HAC) mortars to be deleted (see page 165). 

Blast furnace cement (BFC) factory applied by spuming (July 1996) ... 

Portland cements are calcium-silicate based materials, with less than 2 %free lime Blast furnace cements are mixes of about 30 % OPC and 70 % slag. 

Blast Furnace Cement. The effect of preconditioning is significant for pH and aluminium for soft migration water but only for potassium is the case of medium mineralized migration water. However, some effects can be observed for other parameters but they are not statistically significant. General trends are almost identical to OPC, except for pH in soft migration water. In fact, the pH increase was lower with dry preconditioned samples than with wet preconditioned (Wp2). 

Pre-combustion Post-combustion Iron blast furnace Cement production... 

The most commonly produced cement is Portland cement to British Standard BS 12, which represents 90% of the market, which includes products such as rapid hardening and coarse ground cements, and white Portland cement (WPC). Other cements covered by other British Standards include sulfate resisting Portland cement (SRPC), Portland blast furnace cement, high slag blast furnace cement, and Portland PFA cement. 

Blast furnace slag is a by-product of steel manufacture and is formed when molten blastfurnace slag is rapidly cooled [4]. Blast furnace slag s major use is in the production of slag cement, primarily high slag blast furnace cement and Portland blast furnace cement. 

While these attempts to optimize the strength and durability of cement were more or less unsystematic and empirical, the exact details of the chemistry of cement were first elucidated by Le ChateHer (1904). Later developments included the invention of reinforced concrete by Wilkinson and Lambot in 1855, and of blast furnace cement by Emil Langen in 1862. Thereafter, the twentieth century witnessed the invention and optimization of sulfate-resistant alumina cements (1908), the addition of plasticizers such as Hgnosulfonic acid or hydroxylated polysaccharides and superplasticizers such as sulfonated naphthalene-formaldehyde condensate, and the advent of macro-defect-free (MDF) and polymer fiber-reinforced cements, to name only a few. 

Figure 4-10. Two concrete specimens of different resistance from the test chamber after exposure to two test cycles of biogenic sulfuric acid corrosion, where PC is Portland cement (left) and HC is blast furnace cement (right).

Calcium chloride increases compressive strength of cement pastes especially at earlier times. The most significant effect on compressive strength occurs with portland blast furnace cement and marginally with portland-pozzolan cement. The compressive strength of cement pastes in the presence of 2% CaCl2 improves by about 50,41,11,9, and 8% overthe reference at 6 hours, 1, 3, 7, and 28 days, respectively.P" ]... 

Litvan, G. G., and Meyer, A., Carbonation of Granulated Blast Furnace Cement Concrete During 20 Years of Field Exposure, Int. Conf. on Fly Ash, Silica Fume, Slag and Natural Pozzolans in Conor., (V. M. Malhotra, ed.), Vol. 2, SP-91 1445-1462 (1986)... 

Portland cement is an accelerator for CAC and vice versa. The effect of proportions of each component on setting time is illustrated in Fig. 4. Ternary blends of portland blast-furnace cement and CAC also have an acceleratory effect. 

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