Abstract
The article considers a method of recycling citrogypsum – the сіtric acid production waste. A modified gypsum binder was obtained by means of dehydration of citrogypsum suspension and adding a modifier - polyacrylamide (PAA) - to it in conditions of autoclave treatment. The application of PAA as a modifying admixture causes the necessity to reduce the water-gypsum ratio (W/G) of the mix in order to prevent lamination at the molding product forming; at the same time, to provide the necessary flowability of the mix the introduction of plasticizing admixtures is needed, or the application of the harsher moulding mixtures or pressing technologies. For cylindrical samples, obtained by the compaction method at W/G=0.25 and the specific compacting pressure 20МPа, the optimal content of polyacrylamide as a modifying admixture amounts to 2% of the initial citrogypsum weight. This allows increasing the compression strength of the ready samples by more than 5 times. The samples, produced on the basis of modified gypsum binders, are characterized with high water resistance – the softening coefficient amounted to over 0.8.
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