EM - Escola de Minas

URI permanente desta comunidadehttp://www.hml.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/6

Notícias

A Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto foi fundada pelo cientista Claude Henri Gorceix e inaugurada em 12 de outubro de 1876.

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    Alkali-activated materials produced using high-calcium, high-carbon biomass ash.
    (2022) Silva, Thiago Henrique; Lara, Luis Felipe dos Santos; Silva, Guilherme Jorge Brigolini; Provis, John Lloyd; Bezerra, Augusto Cesar da Silva
    Eucalyptus ash (EA) was used in this study as a high calcium ash (HCA) precursor for alkali-activated binders. The EA used also has high carbon unburned (High loss on ignition). This type of ash is one of the waste products from biomass-fuelled thermoelectric plants, and annually thousands of tons are discarded as a by-product of the energy generation process in Brasil, but it is rich in unburnt carbon which means that it is challenging to use in cementitious systems. Eucalyptus is a biomass that removes CO2 from the atmosphere by photosynthesis and part of this carbon content remains in the ashes, generating CO2 capture when EA is incorporated in the production of alkali-activated binders. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the properties of the material obtained by the alkali-activation of the high-calcium high-carbon biomass ash to generate a cementitious binder, with different pastes proportions of EA and silica fume (SF), activated by sodium hydroxide. With the different pastes, mortars were produced using standardized sand. The results obtained from the pastes and mortars were satisfactory in several aspects. The mechanical results of the alkali-activated mortars were comparable those of Portland cement mortars. Mortars degraded methylene blue more efficiently in illuminated conditions, even after high adsorption for 24 h in the dark. The content of leached ions in the remaining solutions met potability standards.
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    Investigation on mechanical and microstructural properties of alkali-activated materials made of wood biomass ash and glass powder.
    (2021) Silva, Guilherme Jorge Brigolini; Santana, Vanessa Pereira; Wójcik, Marta
    The possibility of the application of biomass fly ash (BFA) as a precursor material for the synthesis of alkaliactivated materials (AAM) is presented in this paper. Glass powder (GP) was tested as an additional substrate in a synthesis process. Different mixtures of samples were produced: four mixtures using only BFA for different NaOH concentrations and nine mixtures where BFA was partially replaced by the GP. Three different NaOH concentrations were applied here. Compressive and flexural strength after 7 and 14 days were performed. The microstructure and the chemical composition of samples were obtained. The results show that the compressive and flexural strength of materials increased with the increase of NaOH concentration and the decrease of the GP content in a mixture. The samples were also characterized by the high porosity with some voids and microcracks. The poorly dissolved BFA particles were also noted in a matrix.