Sika Technology Ag

Evonik Operations Gmbh

Arnd Eberhardt

Frank Schubert

Patrick Juilland

Emmanuel Gallucci

Lukas Frunz

Luis Pegado

Ueli Sulser

Christian Bürge

Thomas Müller

Denise Schönenberger

Letizia Caderas

Robert Flatt

Delphine Marchon

Anke Reinschmidt

Oliver Blask

Inna König

Dieter Honert

Sabin Kruczek

Andreas Vetter

Methods of obtaining aggregates and/or pulverulent mineral material from a starting material comprising hardened mineral binder and aggregates utilizing process auxiliaries selected from the group consisting of polycarboxylate ethers and/or esters (PCE), glycols, organic amines, especially alkanolamines, ammonium salts of organic amines with carboxylic acids, surfactants, especially nonionic surfactants, gemini surfactants, calcium stearate, alkoxylated phosphonic or phosphoric esters, propane-1,3-diol, carboxylic acids, sulfonated amino alcohols, boric acid, salts of boric acid, borax, salts of phosphoric acid, gluconate, iron sulfate, tin sulfate, antimony salts, alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, lignosulfonates, glycerol, melamine, melamine sulfonates, water absorbents in the form of a superabsorbent polymer or in the form of a sheet silicate, anticaking agents, sugars, sugar acids, sugar alcohols, phosphates, phosphonates, and mixtures thereof.

Methods for obtaining aggregates and/or powder-type mineral material utilizing process auxiliaries

A combination of retarders and regulators for hydration reaction of cementitious binders including clinkers based on Ye'elimite. Set retarders are calcium complexing agents, consisting of sugar acids, sugars, sugar alcohols, hydroxycarboxylic acids, phosphates, phosphonates, borates and amines. Regulator general formula (I) is where M is H, NHor chosen from monovalent or divalent metal of groups Ia, IIa, IIIa, Ib, IIb, IVb, VIb, VIIb or VIIIb of periodic table of elements, where M is a divalent metal, a second equivalent of R—SOis present, and M is chosen from group consisting of H, NH, Li, Na, K, MgX, CaX, or NiX with X═RSO, and R is chosen from H, NH, OH or from hydrocarbon chain with 1-18 C atoms which may be substituted by N and/or O and/or which may be linear or branched and/or which contain one or more unsaturated bonds and/or cycloaliphatic and/or aromatic moieties.

Additives for cements comprising Ye'elimite

A method for the kinetic regulation of cementitious binders and/or cementitious binder compositions, the method including the steps of providing a cementitious binder, admixing at least one borate mineral to said cementitious binder, and optionally admixing an activator selected from the group consisting of CaO, Ca(OH), and/or CaSO.

Method for the kinetic regulation of cementitious binders

An aqueous suspension including 5 to 65 wt. % of calcium hydroxide, wherein at least 50 wt. % of the calcium hydroxide is present in the form of nanoparticles, and at least one compound for stabilizing the suspension. The aqueous suspension accelerates the setting of mineral binder compositions without adversely affecting the processing properties of the composition.

Production of calcium hydroxide nanoparticles and their use as accelerators in mineral binder compositions

A method for retrieving aggregates and/or powdery mineral material from a source material comprising hardened mineral binder and aggregates, in particular a waste or demolition material, comprises the steps of: a) treating the source material in a disintegration process and (b) separation of the treated source material at a predefined cut-off grain size in order to retrieve treated aggregates with a grain size of at least the predefined cut-off grain size and/or in order to retrieve powdery mineral material with a grain size below the predefined cut-off grain size.

Retrieving aggregates and powdery mineral material from demolition waste

The present invention relates to an accelerator for hydraulic binding agents, comprising at least one phosphoric acid ester of a multivalent alcohol and at least one calcium compound. The accelerator according to the invention is capable of producing a very fast-curing mortar or concrete composition which has a high early strength and, nevertheless, very favorable processing properties and thus allows early dismantling or early loading and does not cause any losses in the final strength.

Accelerator for hydraulic binding agents with long processing time and very early strength

A comb polymer that is a dispersant in a binder composition includes an alkaline activating agent, wherein the activating agent is intended for activation of a latently hydraulic and/or puzzolanic binder, and wherein the comb polymer has a polymer backbone formed from a plurality of backbone monomers and a plurality of polymeric side chains each formed from a plurality of side chain monomers and bonded thereto, and wherein at least some of the backbone monomers have one or more ionizable groups, and features a structure constant K of the comb polymer, defined as K=[(N&#x2212;1)z]/nPN&#xd7;10, at least equal to 70, where n is the average number of side chains per comb polymer molecule, N is the average number of backbone monomers per side chain, P is the average number of side chain monomers per side chain, and z is the average number of ionizable groups per side chain-free backbone monomer.

Comb polymers as dispersants for alkaline activated binders

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