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Strength Development and Pore Structure Characterisation of Binary Alkali-activated Binder Based on Tungsten Mining Waste

Published date: Apr 13 2020

Journal Title: KnE Engineering

Issue title: REMINE International Conference on Valorization of Mining and Industrial Wastes into Construction Materials By Alkali-activation

Pages: 73–85

DOI: 10.18502/keg.v5i4.6797

Authors:

Naim Sedira - sedira.naim@ubi.pt

João Castro-Gomes

Abstract:

The mineralogical properties of tungsten mining waste mud (TMWM) make its valorisation and re-usage as an alumino-silicate source material to produce an alkali-activated binder without calcination is a challenge. Moreover, the dissolution of silicate and alumina species from TMWM is very slow. Despite the crystallinity of TMWM, this study demonstrates that its combination with other sources of the alumino-silicate source was the materials–such as red clay brick waste(RCBW),ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) and electric arc furnace slag (EAFS) – improved the compressive strength and the pore structure of the alkali-activated matrix.Thecombinedprecursors (90 vt.%TMWM+10 vt.%RCBW, 90 vt.%TMWM+10 vt.%GGBFS, and 90 vt.%TMWM+10 vt.%EAFS) were activated using a combination of alkaline activator solutions (sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide) with the ratio of 1:3(66.6wt.%sodiumsilicatecombined with 33.33 wt.% of NaOH 10M). The results show that the compressive strength increased from11.23MPa at 28 days to reach 24.98MPawhentheTMWMwaspartially replacedby10vt.%RCBW. In addition,this study shows that the interconnected porosity decreased where the critical pore size was reduced from 21.28 µm to 0.55 µm for the tungsten mining waste-based alkali-activated binder and the binary alkali-activated binder based on TMWM and RCBW.

Keywords: Mining Waste, Alkali-activated, Microstructure, MIP, Metakaolin

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