对原样煤矸石和热活化煤矸石的微观结构进行了分析研究,选用化学结合水测定法对各活化煤矸石的活性进行评价,通过X射线衍射(X-ray diffraction,XRD)和扫描电镜(Scanning electron microscope,SEM)等测试方法进行煤矸石热活化过程的微观分析研究。结果表明,煤矸石中的高岭石受热分解与玻璃化是煤矸石活性的主要来源,在低温活性区(500～1100℃),700℃煅烧煤矸石的活性表现最佳。对煤矸石活化过程进行了力学性能试验。试验结果同样表明,各种热活化煤矸石的力学性能与微观结构的分析结果是相一致的。
Red mud was activated to be a mineral admixture for Portland cement by means of heating at different elevated temperatures from 400 ℃ to 700 ℃ . Results show that heating was ef-fective, among which thermal activation of red mud at 600 ℃ was most effective. Chemical analysis suggested that cement added with 600 ℃ thermally activated red mud yielded more calcium ion dur-ing the early stage of hydration and less at later stage in liquid phase of cement water suspension sys-tem, more combined water and less calcium hydroxide in its hardened cement paste. MIP measure-ment and SEM observation proved that the hardened cement paste had a similar total porosity and a less portion of large size pores hence a denser microstructure compared with that added with original red mud.
