Compósitos à base de resíduos da recuperação química da produção Kraft de celulose

Abstract

Increasingly the industrial wastes are used with alternative source of raw material in the civil construction. Thus, the study was conducted with the objective to analyze the use of wastes from chemical recovery of Kraft pulp production: dregs, grits and cal mud, generated for one Kraft pulp industry of Espírito Santo, Brazil, and waste from the lime production using as a binding agent. The concentration of dregs varied between 0 and 45 %, grits - between 0 and 45%, cal mud – between 0 and 30 % and waste of lime production ranged between 10 and 25%. The maximum values of materials for uniaxial compressive strength on the 3-rd day of curing was 5.89 MPa, on the 7-th day – 7.95 MPa, on the 14-th day – 9.35 MPa, on the 60-th day – 18.52 MPa and on the 180-th day it reached the value of 19.34 MPa. Through the methods X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, X-Ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy were determined physical-chemical interaction of the components to initial mixtures and the processes for structures formation of new materials, which can explain the values of mechanical properties during curing. They occurred due to dissolving of the solid particles surfaces of the components in an alkaline environment and to synthesis of new formations, amorphous and crystalline, especially of calcite. The results of the study indicate that the waste from chemical recovery can be used in the production of composites for civil construction.