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  • The characteristics of mineral hydrate insulation material using activated cement prepared from pilot plant activation system
  • Sung Kwan Seo, Yong Sik Chu*, Tae Yeon Kim and Yoo Kim
  • Energy & Environmental Division, Korea Institute of Ceramic Eng. & Tech., Jinju 660-031, Korea
Abstract
In this study, using the pilot plant activation system, the activated cement has been manufactured and then applied to the manufacturing process of mineral hydrate insulating material. The fineness of the activated cement is controlled at 5, 000 cm2/ g and 7,500 cm2/g and the features of mineral hydrate insulating material, using OPC and the activated cement for each degree of fineness, has been analyzed. As the result of analyzing the crystal habit of the manufactured mineral hydrate insulting material, it is analyzed that the main crystal phase of specimen is tobermorite and some quartz peak has been detected. As the degree of fineness of the activated cement increases, the height of bubble of slurry increases as well, whereas the tendency for the density character to decrease has been detected. Along with it, as the density character decreases, the compression strength has decreases, whereas the tendency for the thermal characteristic to increases has been detected. The main features of mineral hydrate insulating material, using the activated cement with the fineness of 7,500 cm2/g, the compression strength of 0.36 MPa, and the thermal conductivity of 0.044 W/m·K, presents the excellent features as insulation.

Keywords: Activated cement, Activation system, Mineral hydrate insulation material, Thermal conductivity

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  • 2018; 19(5): 428-433

    Published on Oct 30, 2018