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Wet process for portland cement manufacturing
Wet process for portland cement manufacturing paccione .co.uk 2 Views • 6 months ago

Cement is a kind of powdery material. When properly mixed with water, it will turn into slurry. The slurry will gradually harden in air and glue together the granular or fibrous materials such as sand and stone firmly. It is widely used in all aspects of our lives, such as subway construction, bridge construction, and residential building construction. It is an indispensable part of our city.

The production process of silicate cement (also known as Portland cement) is representative in cement production. It usually adopts limestone and clay as main materials. After been crushed, proportioned and ground into appropriate granularity, most of the raw materials will be fed into cement kiln for calcining clinker, and then we usually add an appropriate amount of gypsum (sometimes mixed with other materials or additives) in the cement grinding process, finally obtaining the cement products with a qualified fineness. At cement plant, according to different raw materials preparation methods, cement manufacturing can be divided into the dry process (including semi-dry process) and wet process (including semi-wet process). Next, we will discuss the wet process of cement manufacturing in details.

The diagram of cement manufacturing process
The Diagram of Cement Manufacturing Process
Wet Process and Dry Process
Wet Process
The wet process of cement manufacturing refers to grinding raw material into slurry after mixing with water and then feeding them into the wet process kiln for drying and calcination and finally forming clinker. The slurry’s water content is usually between 32%-36%. In addition, the raw material slurry can also be dehydrated into raw material blocks and put into the kiln to calcine clinker. This method is called the semi-wet process, which still belongs to the cement wet process production.

Advantages: the wet process of cement production has the characteristics of simple operation, low dust and easy conveying. Because the slurry has fluidity so that its homogeneity is good and the quality of clinker is improved. What’s more, the energy consumption of raw material grinding in the wet process is reduced by nearly 30%.

Disadvantages: the heat consumption of the wet process is too high, usually between 5234-6490 J/kg and the consumption of ball mill vulnerable parts is also large. Compared with other processing methods, the clinker manufactured by the wet process has a low temperature when it comes out of the kiln, so this method is not suitable to produce the clinker with a high silica rate and high aluminum-oxygen rate.

Dry Process
The dry process of cement manufacturing means that after raw materials with different particle sizes are dried, broken and ground into powders of certain fineness, they will be sent into the dry process kiln for calcining, finally forming clinker. Besides, the raw material powder can also be made into raw material balls by adding a proper amount of water and then be directly sent to the Lepol kiln for calcining. This method is called a semi-dry process, which belongs to the cement dry process production.

Advantages: as the dry process is to directly feed raw material powder into the rotary kiln for calcination, and the moisture content of raw materials is about 1% – 2%, it saves the heat consumption needed for the moisture evaporation. Therefore, this method has the advantages of energy-saving, high production efficiency and stable output, which can meet the production needs of large cement plants. At the same time, there is less sewage discharged in the dry process cement production. It is conducive to environmental protection. Nowadays, we call the production line with preheater and precalciner as the new dry process cement production line, which is the development direction of dry process cement manufacturing in the future.

Disadvantages: the disadvantages of dry process are the inhomogeneous composition of raw materials, high power consumption and the high dust content in the workshop.

Procedures of the Wet Process
The procedures of the wet process are basically the same with the dry process, which can be divided into three stages: raw materials preparation, clinker calcination, and the cement grinding. All of these stages are covered in the article What You Need to Know about Portland Cement Manufacturing Process we mentioned before.

Similar to the dry process, materials also need to undergo quarrying, primary crushing, secondary crushing, proportioning and grinding in the raw materials preparation stage of the wet process. The biggest difference between the two methods is that in the wet process, water is usually required as a process media added in the raw mix to form slurry. After mixing and blending, the slurry will be stored in the slurry tank waiting for further processing. While in the dry method cement production line, the raw mix doesn’t need water.

Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement
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I developed an experimental cement from made only from re-fired wood ash as its cementitious material. It was mixed with crushed terracotta as an aggregate and formed into a cube. The cement set hard after 3 days and did not dissolve in water after this period.
Process: First I burnt bark and leaves in a kiln at high temperatures to produce well burnt, mostly white wood ash. The ash was then mixed into water and stirred well. The excess water was poured off and the resulting paste was made into pellets and allowed to dry. A pellet was then re-heated in the forge until it glowed about orange hot. This was then taken out, cooled and dropped in a pot of water. The pellet dissolved and boiled due to a chemical reaction with the water. The paste was stirred and crushed terracotta (old tiles from previous projects) was added and mixed to form a mouldable mortar. This was formed into a cube and allowed to set for three days (in the video, a cube made exactly the same way 3 days previously was used due to time constraints). The resultant cube was strong and made a slight ringing sound when tapped with a finger nail. It was placed in water for 24 hours to simulate a very heavy rain event and did not dissolve or release residues into the water.
My current theory: The main component of wood ash consists of calcium in some form (e.g. calcium carbonate, calcium oxide). This can be up to 45% from my research. Calcium is in higher concentration in the bark and leaves of a tree. When the ash is mixed with water, the soluble component of wood ash (10% pot ash) dissolves into the water. But seeing that it does nothing for the cementing process, it is drained off leaving the insoluble calcium (and other components) in the paste. Doing this probably raises the relative percentage of calcium in the paste to about 50% or more. Most of the other 50 % consists of silica and alumina which are pozzolans, materials that chemically react with calcium hydroxide to increase the durability of the cement product. The paste was then made into a pellet and fired again to high temperature to convert all the calcium compounds to calcium oxide. It also reduces any charcoal in the pellet to ash if it hadn’t already been burnt the first time. This step seemed important as un-fired ash pellets only partially hardened and would fall apart in water, though retaining a weak undissolved 5mm thick crust. I can only surmise that re-firing the ash just gave a greater conversion of the calcium components to calcium oxide. The pellet is slaked in water converting the calcium oxide to calcium hydroxide. This cement was mixed with crushed terracotta which may also help in some way that I’m not aware of as I only did this one experiment and did not test other aggregates yet (e.g. sand, gravel etc.). Terracotta is porous and might hold together better than other materials. The mixture is allowed to set in air where carbon dioxide reacts with calcium hydroxide to form calcium carbonate cementing the aggregate together. After this, the cement will not dissolve in water.
Use: I think this material might have a potential use as a mortar holding rocks or bricks together in wet environments where limestone or snail shells are unavailable for making cement. Wood ash is a pretty ubiquitous material to most natural environments inhabited by people using biomass fuels. Wood ash cement turns a waste product into a valuable building material. From my research, wood ash is already being used as a partial replacement for cement in the building industry without decreases in strength of the final product. But I’ve only just started experimenting with it and don’t know its full capabilities and limitations. Calcium content of wood ash differs depending on the species of tree, the part of the tree burnt and the soil it’s grown on. Cautious experimentation is still required before committing to a hut built from this material.

How to Make Your Own Concrete | Ask This Old House
How to Make Your Own Concrete | Ask This Old House paccione .co.uk 1 Views • 6 months ago

Ask This Old House mason Mark McCullough explains the basics of making concrete
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Tools List for Making Concrete:
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Shopping List:
Sand in bulk
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Portland cement in bulk

Steps:
1. Measure out each ingredient in the following proportion: 3 parts sand, 2 parts aggregate, 1 part Portland cement. Use a bucket to help keep the measurements accurate.
2. Pour the sand, aggregate, and Portland cement into a mixing bucket. To make the mix stronger, add more aggregate and Portland cement.
3. Add water slowly to the bucket and begin to mix it up with the trowel. Add more water as needed until the concrete is at the correct consistency.

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For bigger jobs that require a lot of concrete, it’s cheaper to make the concrete yourself. The sand, aggregate, and Portland cement can all be found at masonry yards.

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How CEMENT is Made | in FACTORIES
How CEMENT is Made | in FACTORIES paccione .co.uk 2 Views • 6 months ago

A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces concrete. Concrete is the most widely used material in existence and is behind only water as the planet's most-consumed resource.

Cement manufacturing is a complex process that begins with mining and then grinding raw materials that include limestone and clay, to a fine powder, called raw meal, which is then heated to a sintering temperature as high as 1450 °C in a cement kiln. In this process, the chemical bonds of the raw materials are broken down and then they are recombined into new compounds. The result is called clinker, which are rounded nodules between 1mm and 25mm across. The clinker is ground to a fine powder in a cement mill and mixed with gypsum to create cement. The powdered cement is then mixed with water and aggregates to form concrete that is used in construction.

Clinker quality depends on raw material composition, which has to be closely monitored to ensure the quality of the cement. Excess free lime, for example, results in undesirable effects such as volume expansion, increased setting time or reduced strength. Several laboratory and online systems can be employed to ensure process control in each step of the cement manufacturing process, including clinker formation.

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How to make cement at home (simple experiment)
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It’s easy to make the sim­plest type of ce­ment your­self. In this ex­per­i­ment, we’ll pre­pare a mix­ture which you can use to make a lit­tle house, for ex­am­ple for a dog.

Safe­ty pre­cau­tions
Wear a pro­tec­tive mask, gloves and glass­es, and work in a well-ven­ti­lat­ed room.

Warn­ing! Only un­der adults su­per­vi­sion.

Reagents and equip­ment:
* build­ing lime (cal­ci­um ox­ide, 100 g);
* sand (300 g);
* wa­ter (100-150 ml);
* deep con­tain­er for mix­ing;
* trow­el;
* bricks.

Step-by-step in­struc­tions
Mix the build­ing lime with wa­ter. Grad­u­al­ly add sand and stir thor­ough­ly. We get a sim­ple ce­ment mix­ture. Ap­ply it to bricks and leave for a week. The bricks are stuck to­geth­er!

Pro­cess­es de­scrip­tion
In the re­ac­tion of cal­ci­um ox­ide with wa­ter, cal­ci­um hy­drox­ide forms.
СаО + Н₂О = Са(ОН)₂
In air, cal­ci­um hy­drox­ide re­acts with car­bon diox­ide with the for­ma­tion of durable cal­ci­um car­bon­ate, which en­velops and sticks the sand par­ti­cles to­geth­er
Са(ОН)₂ + СО₂ = СаСО₃ + Н₂О

How Cement Is Made? (Mega Factories Video)
How Cement Is Made? (Mega Factories Video) paccione .co.uk 3 Views • 6 months ago

A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces concrete. Concrete is the most widely used material in existence and is behind only water as the planet's most-consumed resource.

Cement manufacturing is a complex process that begins with mining and then grinding raw materials that include limestone and clay, to a fine powder, called raw meal, which is then heated to a sintering temperature as high as 1450 °C in a cement kiln. In this process, the chemical bonds of the raw materials are broken down and then they are recombined into new compounds. The result is called clinker, which are rounded nodules between 1mm and 25mm across. The clinker is ground to a fine powder in a cement mill and mixed with gypsum to create cement. The powdered cement is then mixed with water and aggregates to form concrete that is used in construction.

Clinker quality depends on raw material composition, which has to be closely monitored to ensure the quality of the cement. Excess free lime, for example, results in undesirable effects such as volume expansion, increased setting time or reduced strength. Several laboratory and online systems can be employed to ensure process control in each step of the cement manufacturing process, including clinker formation.

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