Cement alumina clinker

The lime (C), silica (S), and alumina (A) phase diagram is shown in Fig. 17.1a as mol%, and where the area of Portland cement and high alumina cement are indicated. Identify on the phase diagram the location for the following minerals found in (a) Portland cement clinker, C3S, C2S, and C3A (b) found in high alumina clinkers, CA, and CA2. 

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Nonhazardous spent catalysts can be also reused in the production of bricks. Specifically, catalysts are crushed and decreased in size to form alumina/silica sand that can replace the sand used in the manufacture of bricks. Moreover, spent fluidized-bed catalysts can be reused as cement components. Specifically, the catalyst is used to replace clinker in the final grinding (Cardenosa el al., 1992). For the disposal of catalysts, the techniques presented in Section 4.3 can be largely applied. 

In the portland cement manufacturing process, three steps occur. First, raw materials are crushed and mixed. The raw materials are powdered limestone, alumina, iron, and silica. Second, the raw materials are fed to an inclined rotary kiln in which they are heated to at least 2700 F. A rock-like substance called clinker is formed, which exits the kiln and is cooled. Third, the cooled clinker is finely crushed, and about 5 percent gypsum is added to produce finished cement. Details of the process are explained below. 

Ciment Fondu is normally made by complete fusion of limestone and bauxite at 1450-1600 C. In order to produce a cement with the desired rapid-hardening properties, both raw materials must be low in SiO,. The molten clinker is tapped off continuously from the furnace, solidifies and is typically crushed and ground to a fineness of about. 00 m- kg . Some iron is reduced to Fe . The colour of cements produced from bauxite can vary from yellow brown to black, but is commonly greyish black. White calcium aluminate cements are usually made by sintering calcined alumina with quicklime (calcium oxide) or high-purity limestone. 

Portland cement was invented in 1824. The raw materials used in its manufacture are limestone, quartz sand, clay and iron ore. These supply the necessary ingredients lime, silica, alumina, and iron. Properly proportioned quantities of the raw materials are pulverized and fired to result in cement clinkers. These are finely ground and mixed with up to five percent gypsum to make the finished product. Thousands of tons are produced annually in the USA. A small percentage of this total is used for grouting. 

CAC require large industrial facilities, similar to those used to make ordinary Portland cement. The raw materials for CAC are typically bauxite and limestone, which are ball-milled and mixed together to form a feed of appropriate composition, which is fed into rotary kilns to form a calcium aluminate clinker. The clinker is ball-milled to produce the cement. Analysis for composition and mineralogy at various stages of manufacture are essential to ensure a consistent product, see for example Chakraborty and Chattopadhyay [32] for a discussion of the bulk processing of high alumina CAC. 

The production of Portland cement is essentially a chemical process in which the four main components, namely calcium oxide, silica, alumina and iron oxide are combined chemically to produce cement clinker. 

While most calcium aluminate cements are produced from limestone and alumina (see section 9.5), high purity, refractory-grade material is made by at least one producer using ground quicklime as the source of calcium. The quicklime and alumina are blended and fed to a rotary kiln, where they sinter and melt at over 1500 °C. The molten calcium aluminate (about 70 % AI2O3 and 28 % CaO) is cooled in a rotating cylinder to produce a clinker, which is subsequently ground to substantially less than 90 pm [32.6]. 

The basic constituent, the clinker, is obtained from the pyroproeessing of calcareous and argillaceous rock. Portland types of cement include those that are mixtures of clinker and pozzolana, blast furnace slag and fly ash, in a range of combinations. In addition, non-Portland calcium aluminate cements (formerly called high alumina cement or HAC) are manufactured by pyroproeessing bauxite and lime. 

Only two part of this system will be shown CaO-C2S-C4AF (Fig. 2.20) and CaO-C2S-C,2A,-C4AF (Fig. 2.21). The first is very important for the Portland cement clinker having the alumina ratio lower than 0.64, in which the calcium aliuni-nates are not formed and the alumina is boimd in C AF. The C3S field is ended in... 

Midgley, H.G. (1980) The relationship between cement clinker composition and strength recovery of hydrating high alumina cement during conversion, in Proceedings 7th ICCC, Paris, Vol. 3, pp. V68-70. 

Alumina modulus— the ratio AM=Al203/Fc2O3 in a Portland cement raw meal or clinker. 

Portland cement is fabricated by heating limestone with small quantities of materials carrying silica and alumina (such as clay) to about 1500°C in a rotary kiln this process is known as calcination. The resultant hard, sintered clinker is then ground together with a small amount of gypsum (ca. 3%) into a fine powder to produce so-called Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), the most commonly used type of cement. 

High alumina cements (also called calcium aluminate cements) are obtained from bauxite AI2O3 fused together with limestone at a temperature of 1,600 °C into clinker, which is then ground into powder. The chemical composition of high alumina cement is given below after Neville (1997) and Bukowski (1963) ... 

High alumina cements are about three times more expensive than Portland cement, mainly because of the high consumption of energy necessary for grinding hard clinkers. 

With the exception of high-alumina, all standard cements contain portland cement clinker. This material has been dealt with in Section V. 

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