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Calorimetry has been used in the investigations of cementitious systems with different set controlling admixtures. The kinetics and mechanism of hydration process was thus characterized on two different cement clinkers mixed with calcium sulphate containing materials. These admixtures were collected as a residue in the fluidised bed combustion (FBC) of coals with simultaneous desulphurisation process - so-called bottom ash. Apart from anhydrite/gypsum, they were composed mainly of alumina and silica containing material of disordered structure, originating from the coal contaminations of clay character. Anhydrite/gypsum acts as set controlling admixture. The aluminosilicate component reacts with calcium ions released to the solution from the calcium silicate clinker minerals.
It has been found that fluidised bed combustion wastes can be successfully used as set controlling admixture. There is no other harmful effects; those could be easily detectable by calorimetry. However the effect is dependent upon the composition of cement clinker. At low calcium aluminate content a slight acceleration of hydration process can be easily observed, particularly at higher amount of admixture. In the mixtures with high calcium aluminate clinker the heat evolved is slightly reduced in the presence of admixture. The dominating role of aluminate phase in heat evolution process within the first hours of hydration process has been thus proved.
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Pytel, Z. Heat evolution in hydrated cementitious systems admixtured with different set controlling components. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 77, 159–164 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JTAN.0000033199.47106.72
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