Belay Zeleke Dilnesa - Eawag-Empa Library
Belay Zeleke Dilnesa - Eawag-Empa Library
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5. GENERAL CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK<br />
at any conditions. Portlandite and Fe-hydroxide co-precipitated with the different AFm<br />
phases. Generally, the AFm phases form very slowly (over the course of a few years) at<br />
20 °C from C2F, while at 50 °C the formation is faster.<br />
The structure of the stable Fe-containing AFm hydrates (Fe-monocarbonate, Fe-<br />
monosulfate, Fe-Friedel’s salt) were determined and refined using synchrotron powder<br />
diffraction data. Fe-monocarbonate, Fe-monosulfate and Fe-Friedel’s salt show a<br />
rhombohedral R3 c symmetry.<br />
The solubility products obtained at standard conditions (25 °C, 1 atm) for the Fe-<br />
containing AFm phases are generally 2 to 3 log units lower than those of the Al-<br />
containing AFm phases, comparable to the difference between Fe(OH)3 and gibbsite.<br />
logKs0 (Fe) log Ks0 (Al)<br />
Monosulfate -31.57 -29.26<br />
Monocarbonate -34.59 -31.47<br />
Hemicarbonate -30.83 -29.13<br />
C4(A,F)H13 -30.64 -25.4<br />
Friedel’s salt -28.62 -27.69<br />
(Al,Fe)(OH)3 -4.1 -1.24<br />
Notable exceptions are Fe-Friedel’s salt and Fe-hemicarbonate which have relatively high<br />
solubility products compared to the Al-phases, indicating that Fe-Friedel’s salt and Fe-<br />
hemicarbonate are most probably not stable in hydrated cements.<br />
Also the formation of hydrogarnets (Al-katoite (C3AH6), Fe-katoite (C3FH6), Al-siliceous<br />
hydrogarnet and Fe-siliceous hydrogarnet) was studied. C3AH6 was the stable phase in<br />
the CaO-Al2O3-H2O system in the absence of other ions, in all cases co-precipitation of<br />
traces of C4AH13 was observed. In contrast, C3FH6 was found to be metastable while<br />
C4FH13, portlandite, amorphous Fe-hydroxide and carbonate containing AFm phases<br />
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