Production of Portland Cement and

Cement with Addition of Coal Ash

Objectives Machinery Resistance testing
Produce a portland cement that The material should be carried to fine The blocks of cement with dimensions
achieves high levels of mechanical size, through mesh # 200 so all 5x5, the sand-cement mixture ratio
strength. Competent compared to components were reduced in size in was 1/3. And 7% ash was added. After
commercial cements. the following machines: 14 days of setting were uniaxial
Change the traditional composition compression tests and tests with Smith
for the production of portland cement hammer. Giving results according to
replacing raw materials through the graph 3, where there is evidence of
addition of coal ash, to reduce poor cement setting
production costs and improve its
Material
mechanical properties.
For Portland cement production, the
minerals shown in Table 1 were added.
After the production of clinker, 146 g Figure 1. crusher Figure 2. ball mill
jaws
of gypsum were added.
Mixture for clinker
The next table contains the
proportions of the mixture
Figure 6. UCS test and Smith hammer.
Material weight(g)
Figure 3: Roller Figure 4. Mesh #
High limestone 1539.9562 crusher 200
shale 556.175418
high clay 234.004285 Clinker and cement production
To produce Clinker, temperatures
Mineral of Fe 260.573454 around 1450 C are needed, so we use
Total 2590.70936 fluorite as a flux to lower the melting
Table 1. Mixture of point because CIMEX ovens reach the
minerals maximum at 1200 C.
Counts
Caliza
7% by weight of fluorite was added
150000 Calcite 97.7 %
Quartz low 2.3 %
according to the weight of the mixture Graphic 3. Comparison between portland cement
and cement with ash addition.
of the other minerals.
100000
Conclusions
Having no rotating furnace, we formed In comparison with the normal
resistance of the portland cement,
50000

spheres of material and were baked in

0 crucibles our cement presented a significantly
10 20 30 40
lower
Position [2Theta] (Copper (Cu)) resistance,
50 60
this possibly
Graphic 1: DRX of High limestone because the clinker phases were not
formed properly, due to the multiple
Counts
problems that we had in the process
The calcination temperature is
15000 Mineral de Hierro
Quartz 74.8 %
Hematite 25.2 %

fundamental for the formation of the

desired phases, if not properly
10000

controlled, the expected results will

not be obtained.
5000

No significant differences were

observed in the final maximum
0
10 20 30 40 50 60
Position [2Theta] (Copper (Cu))

strength of the two cements, but it

Graphic 2: DRX Mineral of Fe
was observed that the traditional
Figure 5. Procedure cement showed a more plastic
behavior,than
Karol Ros Villa (kariosvi@unal.edu.co), Kevin Lpez Alzate (kelopeza@unal.edu.co) cement
Manuela with Higuita
Marn ash
(mmarinh@unal.edu.co)