AMBIENTUM BIOETHICA BIOLOGIA CHEMIA DIGITALIA DRAMATICA EDUCATIO ARTIS GYMNAST. ENGINEERING EPHEMERIDES EUROPAEA GEOGRAPHIA GEOLOGIA HISTORIA HISTORIA ARTIUM INFORMATICA IURISPRUDENTIA MATHEMATICA MUSICA NEGOTIA OECONOMICA PHILOLOGIA PHILOSOPHIA PHYSICA POLITICA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA SOCIOLOGIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA LATIN THEOLOGIA GR.-CATH. VARAD THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA THEOLOGIA REF. TRANSYLVAN
The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary
The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.
Authors: EMILIA MOSONYI, JÓZSEF FAZAKAS, MARIA SPATARU, TIMEA HALMAGYI.
Guided by theoretical (sulphoaluminate belitic) SAB clinker chemical compositions, raw materials of known chemical composition (locally sourced from the Carpathian orocline), were mixed and tested by burning in laboratory conditions at different temperatures 1220, 1240 and 1260°C. The resulting materials were analyzed by optical transmission and reflection microscopy (using HF etching) and completed with XRD analyses. In this paper we describe chemical and mineralogical characterization of clinker belitic components manufactured in laboratory conditions. Belite nests and clusters with complex zoned structure are observed optically in interstitial material of the clinker that is composed of sulfoaluminate, ferrite and anhydrite. These structures display all three morphological types of belite, corresponding to the different polymorphs of belite, depending on the burning and quenching conditions of the clinker. The XRD patterns are interpreted to show that the appearance of β- and α’-belite and different α’→β transition forms are due to cooling to room temperatures and presence of the belite polymorph stabilizing ions SO3, Al3+ , Fe3+ and alkali. The conclusions of the study were that belites were formed in various mixtures of raw materials treated at low burning temperatures, relatively slow cooling rates (resulting in different proportions of impurity absorption) and with some experiments run under reducing conditions during firing. Chemically, the lime saturation factor of clinkers is low (LSF= 0.74 - 0.84), such compositions favoring the clinker belite component; the silica ratio is low (SR < 1.5), which can improve the burnability of the clinker; the alumina ratio is medium (AR= 1.5 - 2.5), chemically restricting the solid solution of mineral phases, and the hydraulic modulus (HM) is under 1.7, enhancing resistance to chemical attack.
Keywords: SAB clinker, belite polymorphs, mineralogy, XRD
Published Online: 2016-12
