title: Investigation on the activation of coal gangue by a new compound method.
abstract: In order to comprehensively utilize coal gangue as the main raw material in cementitious materials, improving its cementitious activity is a question of fundamental importance. In this paper, we present a new compound mechanical-hydro-thermal activation (CMHTA) technology to investigate the activation effect of coal gangue, and the traditional mechanical-thermal activation (TMTA) technology was used as reference. The purpose of this study is to give a detailed comparison between these two methods with regard to the mineral composition, crystal structure and microstructure, by XRD, IR, MAS NMR, XPS and mechanical property analysis. The prepared coal gangue based blended cement, containing 52% of activated coal gangue C (by CMHTA technology), has a better mechanical property than activated coal gangue T (by TMTA technology) and raw coal gangue. The results show that both of the TMTA and CMHTA technologies can improve the cementitious activity of raw gangue greatly. Moreover, compared with TMTA, the mineral phases such as feldspar and muscovite in raw coal gangue were partially decomposed, and the crystallinity of quartz decreased, due to the effect of adding CaO and hydro-thermal process of CMHTA technology.
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. chao-li07@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.forename: Henghu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Longtu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000538:Aluminum Silicates / Q000737:chemistry; D003031:Coal / Q000032:analysis*; D003460:Crystallization; D007220:Industrial Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010087:Oxides / Q000737:chemistry; D017680:Potassium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D013052:Spectrometry, X-Ray Emission; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D000538:Aluminum Silicates; D003031:Coal; D007220:Industrial Waste; D010087:Oxides; D017680:Potassium Compounds; C517971:muscovite; C016447:feldspar