GRINDING AID ADMIXTURES FOR CEMENT

PROVIDING SOLUTIONS

PROVIDING ADMIXTURES

Production: 140 Tn/h gear motor drive (4300 KW). Separation circuit, fan and
cyclones. Regulation of mill operation by consumption of exit elevator,
electronic listening, return flow meter production and consumption by the mill
motor. Shield, rising in first chamber and classifier in the second chamber.
MORE EFFECTIVE PRODUCTION VOLUMES WITH LOWER ENERGY CONSUMPTION Improves fluidity of cement and reduces Pack set effect. - Benefits the increase of
mineral additions volume maintaining the quality of cement. BEST PERFORMANCE
OF CLINKER AND MINERAL ADDITIONS IN FAVOUR OF BETTER FINAL RESULTS
ON CEMENT PROPERTIES - Increases early and/or final strength of cement Improves cement flowability within mortar and concrete. - Reduces water demand.
Grinding aid admixtures that eliminate/attenuate cement agglomeration
maintaining clean the inner part of the mill (balls and shield). Grinding aid
admixtures increasing the strength.
Mixed grinding admixture: Optimum Performance
Grinding aid admixtures that eliminate / attenuate the agglomeration of cement
particles. The grinding aid is formulated to improve the grinding process of
minerals, and particularly recommended for grinding clinker and supplementary
cementitious materials in the cement production process.
PROPERTIES AND ADVANTAGES
Significant reduction in consumption of energy during the grinding process.
Improvement of the rheological characteristics and pack- set of cement eliminating
blocking problems in cement. Increase of supplementary cementitious materials
content while maintaining the performance of cement. Optimization of the
admixture percentage with equivalent strengths. Improvement in cement
performance: strengths to 1, 2, 7 and 28 days. - Rheology improvement during
manufacturing of mortar and concrete. - Reduction in water demand.
RANGE

GRINDING AID EFFECT

Grinding admixtures with coadjutant effect

Grinding aid admixtures to increase strength

Quality Improvers (QI) to improve compression strength of cement at different
ages.
PROPERTIES AND ADVANTAGES
Optimization of admixture levels with equivalent strengths.

Improvement of cement performance at different curing ages: 1,2,7 and 28 days.

- Improved activity by admixtures in cement (fly ash, blast furnace slag and
other admixtures). - Optimization of production costs.
Mixed grinding admixture: Optimum Performance:
Grinding admixtures are ad hoc formulated admixtures that eliminate coating and
improve the strengths of cement and its admixtures at different ages.
PROPERTIES AND ADVANTAGES
Improved production - Significant reduction in production costs. - Improvement
of the rheological characteristics and pack- set of cement eliminating blocking
problems in the cement silos. - Increase of supplementary cementitious
materials content while maintaining the performance of cement.
Optimization
of the admixture percentage with equivalent strengths. - Improvement of
cement performance at different curing ages: 1,2,7 and 28 days. - Rheology
improvement during manufacturing of mortar and concrete. - Reduction in
water demand.
TECHNICAL Evaluation of raw materials for the development of specific grinding
aid admixtures.
Periodic inspections of mill behavior, checking the operation of separator,
ball charge, ventilation, recirculation, retention time, measures of improvement
for outlet temperature of cement etc. Comparative evaluation of grinding aids
by price by means of different variables such as prices of raw materials,
production costs, values of mechanical strength, fineness, maintenance,
electricity consumption and other useful parameters. Periodic comparison tests on
cements and raw materials. Experience supplied from other manufactures.
ROLE OF GRINDING AID ADMIXTURES Clinker grinding in ball mills is an
operation that involves significant energy consumption for a limited yield.
The total electrical energy consumed during the manufacture of cement is
around 110 KWh/tn, where 40% is used for grinding of clinker. Rittingers law
(1867) shows that the specific grinding energy increases exponentially with
fineness. In order to obtain adequate cement reactivity with water, a high
percentage of cement particles size between 3 and 30 microns is required.
A higher percentage of fine particles means higher energy consumption.
Even
low doses of grinding admixture aids permit improving the performance of
grinding at this stage. Grinding admixture aids mainly help to fight two
aspects: re- agglomeration of the particles, mainly ultrafine ones and the covering
of the surface of the grinding media (balls).
ROLE OF GRINDING AID
ADMIXTURES Cement particles tend to agglomerate due to surface forces:
Van der Waals and electrostatic forces. This phenomenon is more marked for
greater fineness of the particles and in the presence of gypsum and/or limestone
at high temperatures. This agglomeration creates coarse particles that

negatively affect grinding efficiency. In fact grinding admixture aids oppose

agglomeration of fine cement particles and consequently favour storage
conditions and maintenance in cement silos. Adherence of cement is due to the
surface of the balls and armouring in the mill. This is evident by the formation of a
fine film which affects the dampling film around the grinding balls. This is
much more obvious as temperatures rise. During this stage of grinding the
admixtures act by protecting adherence of the balls and mill armouring, and
subsequently improves the strengths of the resulting cement.