Deterioration Characteristics of Cement-Fly Ash Paste under Strong Ultraviolet Radiation and Low Temperature Conditions

The pastes containing different dosages of fly ash were taken into ultraviolet radiation and low temperature freeze condition simultaneously（URL）for 30 days and only ultraviolet radiation condition（UR）for 30 days after standard curing,so as to investigate the influences of the conditions on the deterioration characteristics of the pastes.Microscopic test methods,such as XRD,TG-DTA and SEM,were used to study the UR effect on the deterioration process of hardened paste.The results show that the deterioration tests,such as URL and UR,inhibit the common development of paste strength,especially after the standard curing age of 360days.With the increase of fly ash dosage,from 0 to 50%,the reference value decreases,especially at early age.While at the later age,i e,180 and 360 days,the paste strength cured for 30 days under URL and UR conditions all increase to different extent and the strength is slightly affected very low,especially for the paste containing25%fly ash.From XRD results,URL and UR dispositions do not influence the hydration product kinds but the amount,especially Ca（OH）2 and CaCO3.Deterioration experiments can decrease the diffraction peak of Ca（OH）2 sharply,and increase that of CaCO3 rapidly,especially under only ultraviolet radiation.From TG-DTA and SEM results,with the increase of curing age,the content of Ca（OH）2 decreases and that of CaCO3 increases.The Ca（OH）2 content of paste under continuous UR curing for 30 days is less than that under URL curing for 30days,which indicates that UR has more negative effects on the pastes than URL.

Low Temperature Reduction Degradation Characteristics of Sinter,Pellet and Lump Ore

The reduction degradation characteristics of typical sinter, pellet and lump ore were tested with the reducing gas conditions simulating two kinds of irowmaking processes. The results show that, in the same condition of gas composition and temperature, the reduction degradation degree （RDI〈3.15mm） of sinter is high, RDI〈3.15mm of lump ore is low and RDI〈3.15 mm of pellet is in the middle level. With two kinds of gas composition simulating different iron-making processes, the reduction degradation indices （RDI） of three kinds of iron ores all present the tenden- cy of ＂inverted V-shape＂ in the temperature range from 450 to 650℃, and the RDI reach the maximum value at 550℃. The reduction degradation degrees of iron ores are extended when mixing the gas with hydrogen to increase the re duction potential, and the influence extent is discrepant for different iron ores. Colligating the increase amplitude of grains in small size fraction, the influence of reducing gas on lump ore is the greatest, the influence on sinter is the second, and the sensitivity of pellet on the reducing gas properties change is relatively small. As for the degradation form, lump ore and sinter both present the degradation ,of cracking, and the distribution of small grains generated from the cracking is in the range from 03 5 to 6. 3 mm uniformly. The lump ore presents surface cracking, while sin- ter presents integral cracking. The pellet presents the degradation of surface stripping, and the proportion of grains smaller than 0.5 mm is the highest, which is up to 90% in the grains smaller than 3.15 mm.