Rheological Behaviors of Calcium Aluminate Cement-Hydratable Alumina Bonded Corundum-Spinel Castables Suspensions with Different Dispersants

Abstract:

Calcium aluminate cement (CAC) and hydratable alumina (HA) are the most widely used binders for refractory castables. Nevertheless, CAC as the binder for refractory castable generates some low melting point phases when coupled with SiO₂, which deteriorate the high temperature performance of refractory castables. Although hydratable alumina (HA) bonded castables overcome the drawbacks of CAC bonded ones, they demand a longer mixing time and higher water contents due to HA's high specific surface area, as well as increasing the shear stress and viscosity of HA bonded castables. Therefore, in this paper, CAC combined with HA was used as the binder for corundum- spinel castables to obtain better performance. Sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP), dispersing alumina (ADS) and polycarboxylate ether dispersant (FS60) were used as dispersants, and their effects on the rheological behaviors of CAC-HA bonded corundum-spinel castables suspensions had been investigated. According to the viscosity-shear rate and stress-shear rate curves of suspensions with different dispersants, it was suggested that STPP, ADS, FS60 were all helpful for rheological performance of suspensions. Suspensions achieved much better rheological behavior with 0.3 wt.% of STPP, 1.0wt.% of ADS and 0.1wt.% of FS60, respectively. Suspensions with ADS and FS60 presented to be pseudo plastic fluid, which was helpful for the installation process of CAC-HA bonded corundum-spinel castables. And FS60 could simultaneously impart electrostatic and steric stabilization to the given suspension. Considering the actual rheological performance of CAC-HA bonded corundum-spinel castables, FS60 was much better than ADS.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 281)
• Pages: 137-143
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.281.137
• Online since: August 2018
• Authors: Man Fei Cai, Yong He Liang*, Yu Cheng Yin, Jian Hua Nie, Yu Long Guo
• Keywords: Dispersant, Rheological Behavior, Suspension

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