Portland cement products

Table 8. United States Portland Cement Production ...

The portland cement production process is extremely energy intensive (from 4 to 6 million Btu s (MMBtu s) are required to make a ton of product) therefore, alternative and cost-effective fuel options are of great interest. Waste tires have been tried as a supplemental fuel in veil over 30 cement kilns and in at least one rotary lime manufacturing kiln. Currently, tires are in use, either on a trial or permanent basis, in 11 cement kilns and one lime kiln. 

Laboratory and field testing has shown that properly formulated sulfur composites have good resistance to water, brines, and many acids (Figure 2). Acids and brines are mediums in which portland cement products often corrode severely. 

Locher (LSI) reviewed ways of decreasing the energy consumption in cement manufacture to values substantially below those characteristic of modern Portland cement production. They included the use of fluxes to lower the burning temperature, the production of cements containing more reactive forms of belite or based on belite together with highly reactive phases, replacement of alite by the chloride-containing phase, alinite, and the use of composite cements. 

Overall, these characteristics demonstrate that ammonium dihydrogen phosphate makes excellent rapid-setting grouts for outdoor applications such as road-repair materials in winter time in cold countries, because cold weather retards the initial setting, release of ammonia does not affect the workers and users in an open atmosphere, and the high strength makes these cements superior to conventional Portland cement. Products based on this material have been marketed commercially. 

The open porosity, which affects water absorption in the ceramic, is lower in the Ceramicrete products than in the portland cement products. It is —20% for cement products and <5% (typically, 2-3%) for CBPC products. 

The author of artificial hydraulic lime, produced by the burning of the interground mixture of choc and clay was L.J. Vicat, which published his results in 1818. He can be recognised as the predecessor of the technology of Portland cement production. 

Some authors claim that the higher burning temperature introduction we owe to Aspdin. Johnson applied this method in the factory in Gateshead, which he had taken after Aspdin leaved it in 1851 [4]. Johnson obtained a patent for improvement of Portland cement production in the year 1872. The Johnson achievement was recognised also by Michaelis, it is, however, the open matter to whom of two precursors of Portland cement producing—Aspdin or Johnson—this invention should be attributed [1,4]. 

Zivanovic, B. M. and others, "Substitution of Quartz in Portland Cement Production," Zement-Kalk-Gips, Vol. 48, No. 1,1995, pp. 40-42. 

Bouzoubaa, N., Zhang, M.H., and Malhotra, V.M. (1998) Superplasticized Portland cement production and compressive strength of mortars and concrete. Cement and Concrete Research 28, 1783-1796. 

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Plastic natural ceramic raw materials, consisting predominately of kaolinite, illite and/or montmorUlonite, are accompanied by residual quartz, feldspar, mica, and calcite as well as organic residues. In particular, the hmestone content has been used to distinguish between clay (<4 mass% hme), marly day (4—10 mass% lime), clayey marl (10-40 mass% hme), marl (40-75 mass% hme), calcareous marl (75-90 mass% lime), marly hmestone (90-96 mass% hne), and hmestone (>96 mass% hme). Kaolinitic raw materials formed in situ (autochthoneous) are called kadine, while kaolinitic raw materials found in secondary deposits (aUochthone-ous) are called clays. Marl and marly hmestones are important raw materials for Portland cement production (see Section 5.2.1). 

Due to their respective firing temperatures, natural cement s hydraulic species is primarily dicaldum silicate (C2S), formed below the sintering point. The tricaldum silicate and tricalcium aluminate ( 38,03A) typically formed above the sintering point in portland cement production are absent. 

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