Comparative Study of Water-Leaching and Acid-Leaching Pretreatment on the Thermal Stability and Reactivity of Biomass Silica for Viability as a Pozzolanic Additive in Cement

Materials

Jiajian Chen¹  Jie Ren²  Peng Xu³  Qijun Yu⁴  Jiangxiong Wei⁴  Weiting Xu⁴  Bin Zhang⁴ 

[1] Department of Civil Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China;Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia;Department of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China;School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China;

关键词: amorphous silica;    crystallization sensitivity;    water-leaching pretreatment;    rice husk ash;    cement;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ma11091697

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present work aims to introduce a novel and eco-friendly method, i.e., a water-leaching pretreatment for extracting highly reactive biomass silica from rice husk (RH), for viability as a pozzolanic additive in cement. For comparison, the traditional acid pretreatment method was also employed throughout the experimental study. The silica from RH was extracted using boiled deionized water and acid solution as leaching agents to remove the alkali metal impurities, and then dried and submitted to pyrolysis treatment. The results indicated that potassium was found to be the major contaminant metal inducing the formation of undesirable black carbon particles and the decrease in crystallization temperature of amorphous RHA silica. The boiling-water-leaching pretreatment and acid-leaching pretreatment on RHs significantly removed the metallic impurities and reduced the crystallization sensitivity of RHA silica to calcination temperature. A highly reactive amorphous silica with purity of 96% was obtained from RH via 1 N hydrochloric acid leaching followed by controlled calcination at 600 °C for 2 h. The acid treatments increased the crystallization temperature of silica to 1200 °C and retained the amorphous state of silica for 2.5 h. In the case of water-leaching pretreatment, leaching duration for 2.5 h could yield an amorphous silica with purity of 94% and render the silica amorphous at 900 °C for 7 h. The RHA silica yielded by water-leaching pretreatment presented a comparable enhancing effect to that of acid leaching on hydration and improved the strength of cement. Furthermore, compared with the acid-leaching method, the water-leaching pretreatment method is more environmentally friendly and easier to operate, and hence more widely available.

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