Citric acid added as set retarder significantly contributed to enhancing the setting temperature and to extending the thickening time of a calcium aluminate phosphate (CaP) geothermal cement slurry consisting of calcium aluminate cement (CAC) as the base reactant and sodium polyphosphate (NaP) solution as the acid reactant. The set-retarding activity of citric acid was due to the uptake of Ca2'...

As a valuable byproduct of iron-making process, blast furnace slag contains tremendous amount of sensible heat. Granulation of blast furnace slag is the first step for its heat recovery. Due to environmental and energy issues, dry centrifugal granulation has received a considerable amount of attention. However, the flight dynamics of blast furnace slag, which is of great importance for size des...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reuse of desulfurization slag in cement clinker production and its influence on the formation of clinker phases. The desulfurization slag that mainly contained Ca and Si was identified as non-toxic, and thus it should be suitable to be reused in clinker production. The addition of desulfurization slag increased the melt phase during clinkerizatio...

Alkaline treatment with steel slag and NaOH addition were investigated under different pH conditions for the fermentation of waste activated sludge. Better performance was achieved in steel slag addition scenarios for both sludge hydrolysis and acidification. More solubilization of organic matters and much production of higher VFA (volatile fatty acid) in a shorter time can be achieved at pH10 ...

Two liquid phases: molton metal (or alloy) and slag occur in most metallurgical systems. The slag occurring at the surface of the metal bath not only protects it against negative atmospheric effects but also enables to make many treatments necessary to achieve good quality of the material designed for shaping the casted products. In the conditions of fully controlled process (e.g. melting or re...

Abstract Alkali-activated slag-metakaolin (AASM) has a lower shrinkage than alkali-activated slag, but its complex behaviour remains elusive. In this paper, resistivity measurements were used to monitor the early chemical and autogenous evolution of AASM (containing 10%, 30%, 50%, or 70% metakaolin). The MK content greatly affected development AASM, specimens with 50% showed lowest 49%. presenc...

At present, there is an increasing interest on the use of calcium sulphoaluminate (C4A3$) in cement. In this paper, pure mineral of sulphoaluminate (C4A3$) was prepared in laboratory. Different dosages of steel slag and C4A3$ were blended into cement. The aim of this paper is to investigate the compressive strength of this ternary system. The test results show that the addition of C4A3$ can imp...

This work investigates the melting behaviour of iron ore with calcium-based fluxes, including lime, limestone and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking slag. With an aim to explore potential k...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com rate of about 125 kg/t of the steel produced which leads to piling of the slag in the plant. This slag is generally recycled in a waste recycling plant (WRP) so as to separate the magnetic and the nonmagnetic portions by means of mechanical crushing and magnetic separation. The magnetic portion is then recycled and used in the primary steel making p...