Using PHREEQC to model cement hydration

Hydration Kinetics Model of Supersulfated Cement

Supersulfated cement, with higher waste utilization and less cement clinker is the inevitable trend of the development of green material in the rapid developed industrial era. For the wide use of supersulfated cement in our country, the hydration heat is analyzed in this paper. The hydration kinetic parameters are obtained from the hydration heat and hydration heat rate curves measured by the i...

NMR Studies of Cement Hydration

The raw materials constituting the Portland cement are mainly lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide. During the manufacturing process, a glassy quasicrystalline clinker is formed which is ground, normally with addition of 1-3 wt% of CaSCU in the cement powder. This powder has four major constituents: 3 CaO"SiO2 (in cement chemists' notation C3S), 2 CaOSiO2 (C2S), 3 CaOAl2O3 (C3A) and 4 GaOAl2O3F...

Hydration of cement mixtures containing contaminants

Modeling of High Fluoride Groundwaters in India using PHREEQC

The development of conceptual geochemical models is enhanced by saturation index calculations that can identify the equilibrium state of minerals. Speciation modeling provides saturation indices that indicate reactions thermodynamically possible, minerals dissolving and precipitating in an aquifer system. In the present study, aqueous speciation modeling is carried out for the high fluoride gro...

Hydration of Hybrid Alkaline Cement Containing a Very Large Proportion of Fly Ash: A Descriptive Model

In hybrid alkaline fly ash cements, a new generation of binders, hydration, is characterized by features found in both ordinary portland cement (OPC) hydration and the alkali activation of fly ash (AAFA). Hybrid alkaline fly ash cements typically have a high fly ash (70 wt % to 80 wt %) and low clinker (20 wt % to 30 wt %) content. The clinker component favors curing at ambient temperature. A h...