Quantitative Phase Analysis of the Calcium Silicate Slag as the Residue of Extracting Alumina from High-Alumina Fly Ash

摘要

Calcium silicate slag is the residue of process of pre-desilication alkali lime sintering applied in the high-alumina fly ash to extract the alumina.The quantitative phase analysis(QPA) of the calcium silicate slag has been performed by the Rietveld method based on the powder X-ray diffraction(XRD) with the aid of noncommercial software GSAS-EXPGUI.A known weight of crystalline internal standard(10% CaF_2) was added to the calcium silicate slag to calculate the fraction of amorphous phase and other crystalline phases on an absolute basis.Besides,the calcium silicate slag was characterized by X-ray fluorescence(XRF) and thermo gravimetric(TG) differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) to test the QPA results and investigate its other characters.Finally,the results show that the amorphous fraction is 17.5%(hereinafter,the percentages refer to the mass fraction),and the major crystalline phases detected in the calcium silicate slag consist of 23.5% Beta-Ca_2 SiO_4,10.0% bredigite,10.3% Ca_3Al_2O_6(C_3A) and 21.6% CaCO_3.