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The kinetics of the pozzolanic reaction of enriched kaolin from the “Senovo” deposit (Bulgaria) with lime is the object of this article. The kaolin contains kaolinite as a major clay mineral as well as admixtures of quartz and illite. The experimental data of pozzolanic activity at temperatures of 100 and 23 °C are obtained for different reaction times. The reaction degrees of kaolinite and lime at 100 °C are determined from the pozzolanic activity data using a powder X-ray diffraction analysis. The kinetic analysis is performed by joint presentation of theoretical and experimental data in dimensionless coordinates having in mind the influence of particle size distribution on the reaction rate. It is found by the kinetic analysis that the rate of entire reaction is limited by the rate of chemical reaction on the reaction surface up to degree of reaction near to 0.4. The rate of penetration of the chemical reaction into the kaolinite particles for this area—from the beginning to degree of reaction 0.4, is determined to be equal to 2.10−11 m/s.
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This study was supported by PROJECT 155/2008 from the Scientific Research Fund of the Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”. The authors are grateful to Prof. DSc. Al. Lenchev, Faculty of Chemistry, Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, for the useful discussion about the processing and presentation of kinetics data.
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Ninov, J., Donchev, I. & Dimova, L. On the kinetics of pozzolanic reaction in the system kaolin–lime–water. J Therm Anal Calorim 101, 107–112 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-009-0563-9
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