Notes on the efficacy of wet versus dry screening of fly ash
- Center and Department of Geology, Oporto (Portugal)
The methodology used to obtain fly ash subsamples of different sizes is generally based on wet or dry sieving methods. However, the worth of such methods is not certain if the methodology applied is not mentioned in the analytical procedure. After performing a fly ash mechanical dry, sieving, the authors compared those results with the ones obtained by laser diffraction on the same samples and found unacceptable discrepancies. A preliminary, study of a wet sieving analysis carried out on an economizer fly ash sample showed that this method was more effective than the dry sieving. The importance of standardizing the way samples are handled, pretreated and presented to the instrument of analysis are suggested and interlaboratory reproducibility trials are needed to create a common standard methodology to obtain large amounts of fly ash size fraction subsamples.
- OSTI ID:
- 21212658
- Journal Information:
- Minerals and Metallurgical Processing, Vol. 25, Issue 3; ISSN 0747-9182
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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