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Mineralogical Transformations and Microstructure After Disposal of Cementitious Advanced Coaltechnologyby-Product

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

G.J. McCarthy ,
R.D. Butler ,
D.W. Brekke ,
S.D. Adamek ,
J.A. Parks ,
H.J. Foster  and
J. Solc
G.J. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
R.D. Butler
Affiliation:
Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
D.W. Brekke
Affiliation:
Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
S.D. Adamek
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
J.A. Parks
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
H.J. Foster
Affiliation:
Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
J. Solc
Affiliation:
Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
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Abstract

By-products from two advanced coal technologies, Fluidized Bed Combustion (FBC) and Limestone Injection Multistage Burner (LIMB), were found to be cementitious when mixed with water and compacted. However, exposure to natural conditions in test cells resulted in losses of strength and increases in permeability over a period of years. Changes in mineralogy and microstructure with time in recovered core samples have been characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Up to 80 wt% of the core materials had converted to crystalline hydrate phases by the end of two years. Ettringite, gypsum and portlandite were the initial hydration products. In the LIMB materials, formation of thaumasite in microfractures, channels and voids was detected after one year, and in the FBC material after two years. Thaumasite formation was accompanied by reductions in gypsum and portlandite; it did not appear to be forming at the expense of ettringite. EDS examination of many ettringite and thaumasite crystals showed that the former always contained some Si and the latter some Al, which is evidence for ettringite-thaumasite solid solution. Thaumasite formation accompanied marked losses in strength and increases in permeability.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 370: Symposia Va/Vb – Microstructure of Cement-Based Systems/Bonding and Interfaces in Cement... , 1994 , 179
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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