Mixture for controlling the set time of cements based on cement clinker, method of control and its use
Technical Field
Mixture for controlling the set time of cements based on cement clinker, consisting of a particle material of latently hydraulically active substances.
Background Art
It is known that the control of the setting time and the determination of its beginning is carried out by adding calcium sulphate (CaSO4) in the amount of 5% by mass to other cement components when grinding clinker. Without CaSO4, the present mineral (CaO) 3 . AI2O3 (in brief C3A) starts to hydrate already when wetted with water.
The disadvantage of the application of calcium sulphate for controlling the set time is that it does not make it possible to decrease the water-cement ratio of the fresh concrete mixture, shorten the setting time and achieve faster growth of early strengths.
Other admixtures for controlling the set time are known, where calcium sulphate is replaced with another system containing sulfonated polyphenolate or ligninsulfonate, alkaline carbonate, hydrogencarbonate, hydroxide or silicate or, as the case may be, other admixtures controlling the set time, such as, for example, sodium-potassium tartrate, boric acid (US 3 689 294, US 4 906 912, US 4 551 176 patents) .
The use of such admixtures to control setting is not advantageous from the economical point of view and frequently
causes lowering of the early (4 to 24 hours) strength of mixtures. This system also has a relatively short setting time or it is necessary to add it in a rather large amount. Their overall control of the setting time therefore does not fully substitute the use of calcium sulphate, primarily in the amount added and the time of setting.
The goal of this invention is to find a mixture for controlling the set time of cement with which it is possible to substitute/replace gypsum as for the amount added to the cement clinker and the time of setting and at the same time decreases the water-cement ratio of the fresh cement mixture.
Disclosure of the technical solution
● The invention solves the problem by means of a mixture for controlling the set time of cement, which control the set of the cement in time. The mixture consists of a particle material of latently hydraulically active substances containing 0.3% to 60% by mass CaO, 0.5% to 65% by - mass SiO2, 3% to 34% by mass Al2O3, 2% to 19% by mass Fe2O3, 0.5% to 10% by mass MgO, 0.5% to 36% by mass C, the material also contains TiO2, SO3, P2O5, K2O, Na2O in the amount from 0.04% to 11% by mass, the size of the particles is 1 μm to 450 μm , with more than 50% by mass of the mass particles of this mixture larger than 40 μm. According to the invention, in the cement based on cement clinker, the amount of mixture used for controlling the set time is 0.01 to 50% by mass of the final cement mixture. Cements based on cement clinker may contain constituents such as limestone and/or blast furnace slag and/or, fly ash and/or silica fume and/or natural and/or artificial pozzolanic materials and/or burnt shale.
The solution according to the invention is based on systematic experiments during which it was discovered that the mixture consisting of latently hydraulic substances prepared in chemically expressed ratios according to the invention and consisting only of particles larger than 40 μm has a surprising effect, i.e. if added to the ground cement clinker, it has the ability to regulate setting of the prepared mixture in time. These regulation properties are so significant that according to the invention, the mixture need not be used in great amount (10% by mass and more) to control the setting time of cement clinker.
The mixture prepared in chemically expressed ratios according to the invention, consisting of particles l'ess than 40 μm and added in the same amount into the ground cement clinker, had only minimum or even, no regulation effect for controlling the set time.
According to the invention, the mixture for controlling the set time of cement has no side effects, does not affect any cement properties and fully substitute calcium sulphate or, as the case may be, increases the early cement strength .
The principle of the invention is described in the following examples (that do not restrict it) .
Examples
Example 1
From the latently hydraulically active particle material with the size of particles 1 μm to 450 μm and with the following composition expressed in terms of % by mass:
a part of the particle material was selected containing 75% particles larger than 65 μm. The mixture formed is added in the amount of 5% by mass (related to the clinker mass) to the finely milled cement clinker with a specific surface of 390 m
2/kg and a slurry is prepared from the obtained cement with a water-cement ratio (ratio of water to the solid phase) w = 0.29 that starts to set after 150 minutes.
From the latently hydraulically active particle material; with the size of particles 1 μm to 450 μm and with the following composition, expressed in terms of %by mass :
a part of the particle material was selected containing 75% particles larger than 65 μm.
The mixture formed is added in the amount of 3.5% by mass
(related to the clinker mass) to t.he finely ground cement clinker with a specific surface of 390 m2/kg and a slurry is prepared from the obtained cement with a water-cement , ratio
(ratio of water to the solid phase) w = 0.28 that starts to set after 130 minutes.
Example 3
From the latently hydraulically active particle material with the size of particles 1 μm to 450 μm and with the following composition expressed in terms of %by mass:
a ,part of the particle material was selected containing 75% particles larger than 65 μm.
The regulation mixture formed is added in the amount of 8% by mass (related to the clinker mass) to the finely ground cement clinker with a specific surface of 390 πr/kg and a slurry i,s prepared from the obtained cement with a water-cement ratio (ratio of water to the solid phase) w = 0.29 that starts to set after 190 minutes.
Example 4
From the latently hydraulically active particle material with the size of particles 1 μm to 450 μm and with the following composition expressed in terms of %by mass:
a part of the particle material was selected containing 95% particles larger than 45 μm.
The mixture formed is added in the amount of 5% by mass (related to the clinker mass) to the finely ground cement clinker with a specific surface of 360 rrr/kg and a slurry is
prepared from the obtained cement with a water-cement ratio (ratio of water to the solid phase) w = 0.29 that starts to set after 140 minutes.
Example 5
From the latently hydraulically active particle material with the size of particles 1 μm to 450 μm and with the following composition expressed in terms of %by mass:
a part of the particle material was selected containing 95% particles larger than 45 μm.
The mixture formed is added in the amount of 3.5% by mass (related to the clinker mass) to the finely ground cement clinker with a specific surface of 360 mVkg and a slurry is prepared from the obtained cement with a water-cement ratio (ratio of water to the solid phase) w = 0.28 that starts to set after 120 minutes.
Example 6
From the latently hydraulically active particle material with the size of particles 1 μm to 450 μm and with the following composition expressed in terms of by mass:
a part of the particle material was selected containing 95% particles larger than 45 μm.
The mixture formed is added in the amount of 8% by mass
(related to the clinker mass) to the finely ground cement clinker with a specific surface of 360 rrr/kg and a slurry is prepared from the obtained cement with a water-cement ratio
(ratio of water to the solid phase) w = 0.29 that starts to set after 170 minutes.
Example 7
From the latently hydraulically active particle material with the size of particles 1 μm to 450 μm and with the following composition expressed in terms of %by mass:
a part of the particle material was selected containing 85% particles larger than 45 μm.
The mixture formed is added in the amount of 4.5% by mass
(related to the clinker mass) to the finely ground cement clinker with a specific surface of 360 m2/kg and a slurry is prepared from the obtained cement with a water-cement ratio
(ratio of water to the solid phase) w = 0.29 that starts to set after 150 minutes.
The invention can be used primarily in the cement industry and (construction industry.