The Value of Additives in Refractory Castables – Part 2: Castables with Silica Fume
1 Almatis GmbH, 67065 Ludwigshafen/Germany
2 Qingdao Almatis Co. Ltd., Huangdao/CN
3 Almatis Inc., Leetsdale/US
4 GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Erlangen/DE
5 Stourbridge/GB
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Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 51 - 60
Abstract
Part 1 of this paper covered low cement refractory castables without silica fume. These included tabular alumina and spinel based materials for the highest temperature applications. However, silica fume is widely used as a fine filler in low cement castables for intermediate and high temperature applications. The use of fine matrix fillers requires the addition of additives for homogeneous dispersion of the fine particles during wet mixing (refractories WORLDFORUM 6 (2014) [3] 75). Part 2 of this paper compares the performance of traditional and modern additive concepts in silica fume castables with regard to additive dosage, storage stability of the dry mix, flow properties, working and setting time and also the strength development during curing.
Keywords
additives, castables, dispersion
References
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