Treatment of fly ash for use in concrete

Patent · Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1044045

Boxley, Chett ^[1]; Akash, Akash ^[2]; Zhao, Qiang ^[3]

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1. Park City, UT
2. Salt lake City, UT
3. Natick, MA

A process for treating fly ash to render it highly usable as a concrete additive. A quantity of fly ash is obtained that contains carbon and which is considered unusable fly ash for concrete based upon foam index testing. The fly ash is mixed with an activator solution sufficient to initiate a geopolymerization reaction and for a geopolymerized fly ash. The geopolymerized fly ash is granulated. The geopolymerized fly ash is considered usable fly ash for concrete according to foam index testing. The geopolymerized fly ash may have a foam index less than 35% of the foam index of the untreated fly ash, and in some cases less than 10% of the foam index of the untreated fly ash. The activator solution may contain an alkali metal hydroxide, carbonate, silicate, aluminate, or mixtures thereof.

• Research Organization: Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-05ER84197
• Assignee: Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Patent Number(s): 8,172,940
• Application Number: 11/776,892
• OSTI ID: 1044045
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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