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Synthesis of Aluminosilicate Systems Based on Alkali Activation of Industrial By-Products
Kalina, Lukáš ; Rovnaníková, Pavla (referee) ; Škvára, František (referee) ; Havlica, Jaromír (advisor)
Portland cement-based products are the most commonly used building materials. However, it is well known that the production of OPC not only consumes a significant amount of natural resources and energy but also releases high quantity of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. Purpose of this work is to develop new cementitious material similar to Portland cement-based concrete, which is convenient in terms of energy and is environmental-friendly at once. This work presents preparation, composition and properties of inorganic aluminosilicate polymer, called geopolymer, synthesized from blast furnace slag and fly ash, activated by sodium hydroxide and cement kiln dust. Study of the microstructure was based on SEM-EDX-WDX, TG-DTA-EGA and XRD analysis.
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Substitution of silica filler in the correction mortars by artifical compact material
Jankovský, Július ; Opravil, Tomáš (referee) ; Havlica, Jaromír (advisor)
Master‘s thesis “Substitution of silica filler in the repair mortars by artifical compact material“ could by generally divided into two parts theoretical and experimental. The theoretical part is mainly focused on summarizing knowledge about repair mortars. The repair mortars are used for reprofilation of disrupted concrete layers, and therefore some of the most common defects of these layers, from which we can determine requirements for repair mortars are listed in the thesis. In the theoretical part, there is also mentioned a general formula of how to prepare a repair mortar, also there are described manufacture and characteristics of the most important ingredients of mortars such as cement, filler (aggregate), water and chemical modificators. Above all the theoretical part is focused on the effects that individual ingredients have on the resulting properties of repair mortars. The experimental part could be further divided into two parts. In the first part there are listed properties of the individual investigated materials and also there is introduced theoretical basis for particular tests of properties of repair mortars, such as analysis of grading distribution of a filler (aggragate), tests of flexular and compression strengths and frost resistance. In the first part there are also proposed formulae of mortar mixtures, where part of the original filler was substituted by an abrasive material TRYMAT, artificial compact aggregate made from blast furnace slag UHK d/D, or their combination. The properties of these mortar mixtures were compared to referential mortar mixture PANBEX R1. In the second part of experimental section is dedicated to summarization and discussion of the obtained results for individual mortar mixtures.
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Study of Sintering of Nanoceramic Materials
Dobšák, Petr ; Hanykýř, Vladimír (referee) ; Havlica, Jaromír (referee) ; Šída, Vladimír (referee) ; Cihlář, Jaroslav (advisor)
The topic of the Ph.D. thesis was focused on the process of sintering alumina and zirconia ceramic materials with the aim to compare kinetics of sintering sub-micro and nanoparticle systems. Zirconia ceramic powders stabilized by different amount of yttria addition in the concentration range of 0 – 8 mol% were used. The different crystal structure (secured by yttria stabilization) of zirconia, as found, did not play statistically proven role in the process of zirconia sintering. The possible influence was covered by other major factors as particle size and green body structure, which does affect sintering in general. According to the Herrings law, the formula predicting sintering temperature of materials with different particle size was defined. The predicted sintering temperatures were in good correlation with the experimental data for zirconia ceramic materials prepared from both, coarser submicrometer, and also nanometer powders. In case of alumina ceramics the predicted and experimentally observed sintering temperature values did not match very well. Mainly the nanoparticle alumina materials real sintering temperature values were markedly higher than predicted. The reason was, as shown in the work, strong agglomeration of the powders and strong irregularities of particle shape. The major role of green body microstructure in the sintering process was confirmed. The final density of ceramic materials was growing in spite of sintering temperature, which was decreasing together with pore - particle size ratio (materials with similar particle size were compared). Sintering temperature was increasing together with growing size of pores trapped in the green body structure. Clear message received from the above mentioned results was the importance of elimination of stable pores with high coordination number out off the green body microstructure during shaping ceramic green parts. Same sintering kinetics model was successfully applied on the sintering process of submicro- and also nanometer zirconia ceramics. Activation energy of nanometer zirconia was notably lower in comparison to submicrometer material. For the sintering of nanoparticle zirconia was typical so called “zero stage” of sintering, clearly visible on kinetic curves. It was found out, that processes running in zirconia “green” material during zero stage of sintering are heat activated and their activation energy was determined. Pores of submicrometer zirconia were growing in an open porosity stage of sintering just a slightly (1.3 times) compared to the nanoparticle zirconia, where the growth was much higher (5.5 times of the initial pore diameter). This difference was most probably caused by preferential sintering of agglomerates within the green bodies and by particle rearrangement processes which appears in the zero stage of sintering of nanoparticular ceramics. The technology of preparation of bulk dense ytria stabilized zirconia nanomaterial with high relative density of 99.6 % t.d. and average grain size 65nm was developed within the thesis research.
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Influence of noble earth's elements on Bi based high temperature superconductors phase transition
Snopek, Jan ; Havlica, Jaromír (referee) ; Ptáček, Petr (advisor)
The Bi2Sr2CaCu2O7+d, i.e. Bi2212 phase of bismuth derived high temperature superconductors (HTS), powder precursor were synthesized via sol – gel technique using ethylendiamintetraacetic acid (Chelaton II) as a chelating agent. Metal nitrate’s solutions were mixed with EDTA suspension. The pH value was adjusted to 9 by NH4OH by reason forming of stable metal’s complexes. The mixture was heated to 80 °C for gelation. Solution taken before solid gel was form is used for preparation of Bi2212 layer on to a-Al2O3 surface via spin coating deposition’s technique. Reactive powder used for bulk sample preparation was made by calcination (800 °C) of pyrolyzed xerogel (500 °C). Sintering in oxygen atmosphere was proceeding at temperature from 850 to 880 °C. Bulk sample properties were compared with sample prepared by common ceramic method. Simultaneous TG-DTA, IR spectroscopy and heating microscopy were used for sample characterization. Furthermore, construction of furnace for sintering in O2 atmosphere was described.
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Research of Coatings of Hydrodynamically Lubricated Sliding Bearings for Combustion Engines
Repka, Martin ; Čermák, Roman (referee) ; Petrůj, Jaroslav (referee) ; Havlica, Jaromír (advisor)
Hlavní náplní této dizertační práce je výzkum a vývoj nové povrchové vrstvy pro kluzná ložiska na bázi pevných lubrikantů v polyamid-imidové polymerní matrici se zlepšenými tribologckými vlastnostmi. Podklady pro materiálovou kompozici vzešly z expertízy komerčně dostupného povlaku, respektive jeho povrchovou analýzou v mezných operačních podmínkách. Charakterizace mazného oleje před a po tribotestování společně s detailní povrchovou analýzou dala podmínky pro vznik materiálové formulace. Další část práce se zabývá studiem přípravy a vývojem aplikačního nanášení s přípravou polymerní směsi. Nakonec je popsána studie vlivu sulfidu molybdeničitého a grafitu, jakožto pevných lubrikantů pro zlepšení třecích vlastností a hydroxidu vápenatého pro potenciální zpepšení otěruvzdornosti výsledného povrchu pro palikaci kluzných ložisek.
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Preparation and Properties of Roman Cement
Opravil, Tomáš ; Palou, Martin (referee) ; Škvára, František (referee) ; Havlica, Jaromír (advisor)
The Ph.D. thesis deals with the preparation of highly hydraulic binders based on roman cement. Roman cement (natural cement) is recently not available on the market due to uneconomic production of such a specific binder. On the other hand there is a big lack of information on this hydraulic binder. These results in failure in meeting the basic principle of modern approaches to restoration of historical buildings or monuments made of such kind of materials, which is such, that the materials used for restoration should be compatible with original material. Recognition of the processes of roman cement preparation based on progressive methods of study can provide substantial information for more efficient raw material selection or even for nontraditional utilization, for example for artworks. This work hence is aimed at studying and selection of traditional natural as well as nontraditional raw materials such as clay. This work also studies the preparation of highly hydraulic binders based on roman cement and the kinetics of burning and hydration processes
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Dissolution of silicates for carbon dioxide mineral storage
Křečková, Magdaléna ; Havlica, Jaromír (referee) ; Ptáček, Petr (advisor)
The degradability of wollastonite, montmorillonite and talc in an aqueous solution of acetic acid at different temperatures is main object of this study. Mineral carbonation, i.e. the reaction of calcium and magnesium presented in these three silicates, is a novel and promising approach to carbon dioxide capture and long-term storage. The kinetic of wollastonite, montmorillonite and talc dissolution is studied due to assessment of their efficiency for CCS technologies. The dissolution kinetic is discovered with using measured time dependence of Ca2+ and Mg2+ leached ions concentration.
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Possibilities of classical fly ash utilization after denitrification of flue gas
Snop, Roman ; Dvořák, Karel (referee) ; Bílek, Vlastimil (referee) ; Havlica, Jaromír (advisor)
This doctoral thesis, "Possibilities of using conventional fly ash after flue gas denitrification", deals with the solution and processing of data on the issue of ammonia / contaminated fly ash after selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) technology in coal-fired power plants. Also this thesis is focused on experimental verification of the effect of ammonium salts on the properties of fly ash and the effect on the working environment. Basic data on the issue of ammonia ash were collected. Specifically, these are several main areas of research. The binding of ammonia in fly ash produced after SNCR is described, the problem of determination of ammonium ions in fly ash, mortars and concretes is solved. Furthermore, the effects of the use of ammonia fly ash on the properties of concrete are experimentally verified, and the work also deals with the leachability of ammonia fly ash
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Mathematical Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer in a Rotary Kiln
Kozakovič, M. ; Havlica, Jaromír ; Huchet, F.
The main objective of this research was to compare the results of the proposed 1D transport model with numerical simulations of mass transport in a direct-heat rotary kiln at laboratory scale. Another objective was to investigate the effect of the number of flights on the formation of an active particle surface in the airborne phase, which enables efficient heat transport. The studied rotary kiln is a low-angle cylinder with a length of 0.5 meter and a diameter of 0.108 meter with regularly arranged flights on the inside. The heat is transported into the rotary kiln by hot air at the inlet. The load in the rotary kiln consists of spherical particles with 1 millimeter diameter. The rotary kiln rotation speed is 21.5 rpm. For each simulation, 20 rotations were performed. The Discrete Element Method implemented in an open-source code LIGGGHTS was used for simulations.Efficient heat transfer is made possible primarily by the large number of particles in the airborne phase, which are heated by the warm air blowing in. To begin with, the number of flights and their geometry were found to be a key parameter controlling the amount of particles in the gaseous regime. It was also found that an area in the right part of the base of the cylinder is formed which is not reached by particles from the flights. This phenomenon is due to the dynamics of particle transport, as the particles are not maintained in the active phase and move rapidly towards the load due to gravity. In conclusion, the effect of this zone is negative, as hot air flows through it without resistance, preventing the system from heating effectively.
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