Fire Resistant Properties of Geopolymers: A Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 39-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heah Cheng Yong ◽  
Liew Yun Ming ◽  
Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah ◽  
Kamarudin Hussin

This paper presents fire and thermal properties on geopolymer binders, composed of metakaolin, slag and fly ash as precursor. Geopolymers are inorganic polymeric materials that are believed being capable to resist heat, high temperature and fire. Based on the previous researches, geopolymers offer a feasible alternative to fire resistance applications and with further deep studies, it has great potential to be fabricated for engineering applications.

2014 ◽  
Vol 977 ◽  
pp. 378-381
Author(s):  
In Kyu Kwon

A fire occurred in the steel framed building could be yielded an unexpected disasters including loss of human lives and damages of properties. Therefore, to evade the tragedies from the building, fire resistance performance of structural elements is required and specified into each nation’s building regulation. Especially, the structural beam plays a key role to transfer the load applied on the floor to column. In this study, to estimate the fire resistance performance of structural beam made of SM 400, analysis using not only mechanical, thermal properties at high temperature of the SM 400 but theories of heat transfer and thermal stress were conducted. The result of this study showed that as the lengths of beam are increased, the structural stability become getting worse. Therefore, it is not recommended to use the same thickness of fire protective materials derived from prototype’s length, 4100 mm to longer beam.


2014 ◽  
Vol 902 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
In Kyu Kwon

As the strength of structural steels is increasing, the performance of fire resistance should be evaluated clearly and suggested. While their application has been expanded, the evaluation of the fire resistance is inclined to adopt that derived from ordinary strength steels. In order to compare the fire resistance performance of high strength structural steels at high temperature, databases such as mechanical and thermal properties at elevated temperature were compared with those of Eurocode 3. After comparison, it is recommended that the passive protective material is more needed than those for the ordinary strength structural steels to meet the fire resistance requirement.


2008 ◽  
Vol 368-372 ◽  
pp. 1529-1531
Author(s):  
Yi Hai Jia ◽  
Min Fang Han ◽  
Ze Sheng Xu ◽  
Yan Gao ◽  
Xian Xian Meng

With fly ash, metakaolin, slag and alkaline activator as raw materials, the geopolymeric ceramic was synthesized and the properties, such as the weight loss, compressive strength and the structures, at high temperatures of 400~1200°C were measured. The weight loss is in the range of 8~13% from 400°C to 800°C. Comparing with the strength at room temperature, the compressive strength of samples is mostly increased at 400°C and all of them increased at 800°C. 9.65~28.32% strength declines at 1200°C. The variation of the compressive strength with temperature is explained based on the analyses of the phases constitutes and the thermal properties of samples.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6234
Author(s):  
Ciprian Neagoe ◽  
Ioan Albert Tudor ◽  
Cristina Florentina Ciobota ◽  
Cristian Bogdanescu ◽  
Paul Stanciu ◽  
...  

Microencapsulation of sodium nitrate (NaNO3) as phase change material for high temperature thermal energy storage aims to reduce costs related to metal corrosion in storage tanks. The goal of this work was to test in a prototype thermal energy storage tank (16.7 L internal volume) the thermal properties of NaNO3 microencapsulated in zinc oxide shells, and estimate the potential of NaNO3–ZnO microcapsules for thermal storage applications. A fast and scalable microencapsulation procedure was developed, a flow calorimetry method was adapted, and a template document created to perform tank thermal transfer simulation by the finite element method (FEM) was set in Microsoft Excel. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and transient plane source (TPS) methods were used to measure, in small samples, the temperature dependency of melting/solidification heat, specific heat, and thermal conductivity of the NaNO3–ZnO microcapsules. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and chemical analysis demonstrated the stability of microcapsules over multiple tank charge–discharge cycles. The energy stored as latent heat is available for a temperature interval from 303 to 285 °C, corresponding to onset–offset for NaNO3 solidification. Charge–self-discharge experiments on the pilot tank showed that the amount of thermal energy stored in this interval largely corresponds to the NaNO3 content of the microcapsules; the high temperature energy density of microcapsules is estimated in the range from 145 to 179 MJ/m3. Comparison between real tank experiments and FEM simulations demonstrated that DSC and TPS laboratory measurements on microcapsule thermal properties may reliably be used to design applications for thermal energy storage.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4379
Author(s):  
Max Hesselbrandt ◽  
Mikael Erlström ◽  
Daniel Sopher ◽  
Jose Acuna

Assessing the optimal placement and design of a large-scale high temperature energy storage system in crystalline bedrock is a challenging task. This study applies and evaluates various methods and strategies for pre-site investigation for a potential high temperature borehole thermal energy storage (HT-BTES) system at Linköping in Sweden. The storage is required to shift approximately 70 GWh of excess heat generated from a waste incineration plant during the summer to the winter season. Ideally, the site for the HT-BTES system should be able to accommodate up to 1400 wells to 300 m depth. The presence of major fracture zones, high groundwater flow, anisotropic thermal properties, and thick Quaternary overburden are all factors that play an important role in the performance of an HT-BTES system. Inadequate input data to the modeling and design increases the risk of unsatisfactory performance, unwanted thermal impact on the surroundings, and suboptimal placement of the HT-BTES system, especially in a complex crystalline bedrock setting. Hence, it is crucial that the subsurface geological conditions and associated thermal properties are suitably characterized as part of pre-investigation work. In this study, we utilize a range of methods for pre-site investigation in the greater Distorp area, in the vicinity of Linköping. Ground geophysical methods, including magnetic and Very Low-Frequency (VLF) measurements, are collected across the study area together with outcrop observations and lab analysis on rock samples. Borehole investigations are conducted, including Thermal Response Test (TRT) and Distributed Thermal Response Test (DTRT) measurements, as well as geophysical wireline logging. Drone-based photogrammetry is also applied to characterize the fracture distribution and orientation in outcrops. In the case of the Distorp site, these methods have proven to give useful information to optimize the placement of the HT-BTES system and to inform design and modeling work. Furthermore, many of the methods applied in the study have proven to require only a fraction of the resources required to drill a single well, and hence, can be considered relatively efficient.


2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1356-1364
Author(s):  
Jun HAN ◽  
Yang-shuo LIANG ◽  
Bo ZHAO ◽  
Zi-jiang XIONG ◽  
Lin-bo QIN ◽  
...  

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 540
Author(s):  
Yukyung Kim ◽  
Sanghyuck Lee ◽  
Hyeonseok Yoon

Currently, polymers are competing with metals and ceramics to realize various material characteristics, including mechanical and electrical properties. However, most polymers consist of organic matter, making them vulnerable to flames and high-temperature conditions. In addition, the combustion of polymers consisting of different types of organic matter results in various gaseous hazards. Therefore, to minimize the fire damage, there has been a significant demand for developing polymers that are fire resistant or flame retardant. From this viewpoint, it is crucial to design and synthesize thermally stable polymers that are less likely to decompose into combustible gaseous species under high-temperature conditions. Flame retardants can also be introduced to further reinforce the fire performance of polymers. In this review, the combustion process of organic matter, types of flame retardants, and common flammability testing methods are reviewed. Furthermore, the latest research trends in the use of versatile nanofillers to enhance the fire performance of polymeric materials are discussed with an emphasis on their underlying action, advantages, and disadvantages.


Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Pramod Koshy ◽  
Naomi Ho ◽  
Vicki Zhong ◽  
Luisa Schreck ◽  
Sandor Alex Koszo ◽  
...  

Fly ash is an aluminosilicate and the major by-product from coal combustion in power stations; its increasing volumes are major economic and environmental concerns, particularly since it is one of the largest mineral resources based on current estimates. Mullite (3Al2O3·2SiO2) is the only stable phase in the Al2O3-SiO2 system and is used in numerous applications owing to its high-temperature chemical and mechanical stabilities. Hence, fly ash offers a potential economical resource for mullite fabrication, which is confirmed by a review of the current literature. This review details the methodologies to utilise fly ash with different additives to fabricate what are described as porous interconnected mullite skeletons or dense mullite bodies of approximately stoichiometric compositions. However, studies of pure fly ash examined only high-Al2O3 forms and none of these works reported long-term, high-temperature, firing shrinkage data for these mullite bodies. In the present work, high-SiO2 fly ashes were used to fabricate percolated mullite, which is demonstrated by the absence of firing shrinkage upon long-term high-temperature soaking. The major glass component of the fly ash provides viscosities suitably high for shape retention but low enough for ionic diffusion and the minor mullite component provides the nucleating agent to grow mullite needles into a direct-bonded, single-crystal, continuous, needle network that prevents high-temperature deformation and isolates the residual glass in the triple points. These attributes confer outstanding long-term dimensional stability at temperatures exceeding 1500 °C, which is unprecedented for mullite-based compositions.


Author(s):  
Soo-yeon Seo ◽  
Jong-wook Lim ◽  
Su-hyun Jeong

AbstractTo figure out the change in the reinforcing effect of FRP system used for the retrofit of RC beam when it is exposed to high temperature, it is required to evaluate not only the behavior of the entire beam, but also the bond performance at anchorage zone through a bond test according to the increase of external temperature. Moreover, the study to find various fire-protection methods is necessary to prevent the epoxy from reaching the critical temperature during an exposure to high temperature. In this manner, the fire-resistance performances of externally bonded (EB) FRP and near-surface-mounted (NSM) FRP to concrete block were evaluated by high-temperature exposure tests after performing a fire-protection on the surface in this paper. Board-type insulation with mortar was considered for the fire-protection of FRP system. After the fire-protection of the FRPs bonded to concrete blocks, an increasing exposure temperature was applied to the specimens with keeping a constant shear bond stress between concrete and the FRP. Based on the result, the temperature when the bond strength of the FRP disappears was evaluated. In addition, a finite element analysis was performed to find a proper method for predicting the temperature variation of the epoxy which is fire-protected with board-type insulation during the increase of external temperature. As a result of the test, despite the same fire-protection, NSM specimens were able to resist 1.54–2.08 times higher temperature than EB specimens. In the design of fire-protection of FRP system with the board-type insulation, it is necessary to consider the transfer from sides as well as the face with FRP. If there is no insulation of FP boards on the sides, the epoxy easily reaches its critical temperature by the heat penetrated to the sides, and increasing the thickness of the FP board alone for the face with FRP does not increase the fire-resistance capacity. As a result of the FE analysis, the temperature variation at epoxy can be predicted using the analytical approach with the proper thermal properties of FP mortar and board.


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