Influences of Concrete Water Reducer on Different Kinds of Cement (1)

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The China Securities New Energy Vehicle index rose as much as 4.1 percent after a strong rally in lithium-ion shares on the Chinese stock market. Brokerages said lithium enterprises would usher in marginal expectations, and currently, it may be the best time to layout power/energy storage lithium batteries.

According to a securities research report, the price of lithium carbonate in the upstream resource end continues to hit a new high, which reflects the shortage of lithium mineral resources, and lithium has become one of the core elements of the development of the lithium electricity industry. In 2022, global demand for lithium carbonate continues to grow strongly, while the supply-side growth is relatively limited. And, because related mining enterprises experienced the last lithium down cycle, they would expand concrete water reducer are expected to rise.

The water-reducing agent or concrete water reducer is a kind of concrete admixture that can reduce the water consumption under the condition of keeping the slump of concrete basically unchanged. It has a dispersive effect on cement particles, can improve its workability, reduce water consumption per unit, improve the fluidity of concrete mixture, or reduce the amount of cement per unit, saving cement.

Because different cement has different mineralized compositions, in addition to the variety of mixed materials, the effect of admixtures for different types of cement is very different.

In this article, we will talk about the problems when water reducer meets different kinds of cement and solutions.

1.    High-alkali Cement

Soluble alkali in cement is usually expressed as Na2O equivalent, which mainly comes from the clay and mixture of cement production. An appropriate amount of soluble alkali is conducive to promoting cement hydration and is more conducive to the early strength development of concrete. The results show that the fluidity of cement concrete increases with the increase of alkali content. However, when a certain amount of cement is reached, the cement will hydrate rapidly and the fluidity of cement slurry decreases greatly.  Plasticizing effect decreased obviously after adding water reducing agent. When the water reducing agent is used in the construction of concrete and pumped concrete, the loss rate of slump increases.

It is generally believed that alkali in cement promotes the dissolution of tricalcium aluminate (C3A). At this time, cement forms certain AFt crystals quickly with the help of coagulant CaSO4, which wraps on the surface of C3A, inhibits the direct hydration of C3A to form calcium aluminate, and improves the fluidity of cement slurry. However, if the alkali content in cement is too high, due to the formation of a large number of AFt crystals at the beginning, the fluidity will decrease, and the adaptability of water reducing agent to the above cement will inevitably decrease, for example, the water reduction rate is not enough, the plasticizing effect is poor, and the slump loss rate is high. 

For high alkali cement, the effect of the water reducing agent with low sulfate content is poor, while the use effect of higher sulfate content of water reducing agent (sodium sulfate content of more than 20%) will be significantly improved. Primarily, low water reducing agent CaSO4 is contained in the synthesis and production, it has good properties of water-soluble. Gypsum in cement before it a large number of soluble in water, dissolved when higher alkali to speed up the C3A dissolution, because the water has a large number of SO3, reaction with C3A, form the AFt, to prevent the liquidity caused by the formation of calcium aluminate. And the slump loss is reduced. It is not difficult to see, that the water reducing agent with high content of sodium sulfate can adapt to high alkali cement more. 

The PH value of many polycarboxylate water reducing agents is low, such as with citric acid and other acid retarder combined with high alkali cement is difficult to adapt. It is mainly because when acid admixture is mixed with cement of high alkali, it can produce acid alkali quickly neutralize exothermic reaction, temperature rises sharply, which not only make cement hydrate rapidly, heat of a large number of hydrate is put more can produce vicious circle, the concrete that place makes up not only fluidity is poor, slump falls to spend very likely disappear inside a very short time. Using other kinds of alkaline retarders can avoid these problems.

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Southern Copper Corp (SCCO.N) recently said its Peruvian mine remained closed after a six-week standoff with protesters and blamed the Peruvian government for failing to intervene in the safety of its 1,300 workers and their families.  

The company said in a statement that a recent agreement to end protests at the Cuajone mine required the company to withdraw complaints against protest leaders because railways transporting minerals and supplies remained blocked. Production has been suspended since the end of February.  

Peru's Energy Ministry said in a separate statement that it had also reached an agreement with Southern Copper to start talks to find common ground with local communities.  

"If we shut down for a year, the government will stop receiving more than 3.1 billion soles ($830 million) in taxes and royalties, and 8,000 direct and indirect jobs will be lost. This is what we want to avoid, "Southern Copper added in the statement.

Peru has faced a wave of protests from indigenous communities, who accuse mining companies of not providing enough jobs and funding to poor local residents.  

Central bank officials said last week that protests against copper mines such as MMG's Las Bambas and Southern Copper's Cuajone were dragging down the economy.  

Peru is the world's second-largest copper producer and mining is an important source of tax revenue for the country. It is estimated that the supply and prices of the concrete water reducer will be influenced by that.

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