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    The Cement Grinding Office: Blaine Specific Surface Area (Cement Density)

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    The document discusses the Blaine method for determining the specific surface area of cement, which is a measure of cement fineness. It describes the principles of the air permeability method developed by Blaine, in which the time for a fixed quantity of air to pass through a compacted cement bed is measured. A shorter time corresponds to a higher specific surface area and finer cement particles. The document provides details on sample preparation, calibration of the apparatus using a reference cement, and formulas for calculating the specific surface area or Blaine value of the test cement sample. It also mentions online Blaine analyzers that automate the cement bed testing process.

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    The document discusses the Blaine method for determining the specific surface area of cement, which is a measure of cement fineness. It describes the principles of the air permeability method developed by Blaine, in which the time for a fixed quantity of air to pass through a compacted cement bed is measured. A shorter time corresponds to a higher specific surface area and finer cement particles. The document provides details on sample preparation, calibration of the apparatus using a reference cement, and formulas for calculating the specific surface area or Blaine value of the test cement sample. It also mentions online Blaine analyzers that automate the cement bed testing process.

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    The document discusses the Blaine method for determining the specific surface area of cement, which is a measure of cement fineness. It describes the principles of the air permeability method developed by Blaine, in which the time for a fixed quantity of air to pass through a compacted cement bed is measured. A shorter time corresponds to a higher specific surface area and finer cement particles. The document provides details on sample preparation, calibration of the apparatus using a reference cement, and formulas for calculating the specific surface area or Blaine value of the test cement sample. It also mentions online Blaine analyzers that automate the cement bed testing process.

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    BlaineSpecicSurfaceArea(Cementdensity)

    1 Introduc on:

    CementnenessisexpressedeitherintermsofPar cleSizeDistribu on(PSD)withresidues(orpassing)onreference


    sievesorbyitsspecicsurfaceareainBlaine.

    Inthispresenta on,wewilldeveloptheBlainemethodwhichisthemostwidelyusedintheworldofcement.

    2 Cementdensi es:

    Thedensityisthefundamentalphysicalcharacteris cofthematerial.Densityisdenedbymassofa

    unitvolumeofamaterialsubstance,expressedaskilogramspercubicmetre(orgr/cm3).
    Inthecaseofcementoranypowderonemustconsidertwodensi es:

    *bulkdensity

    *absolutedensity

    Somereminders:

    Let'stakeavolumeVofcement

    With:

    VV=volumeofvoids=air
    VS=volumeofthesolidphase
    ThetotalmassMiscomposedof:

    With:

    MV=massofvoids0

    MS=massofthesolidphase

    Thebulkdensityisdenedby:

    Andtheabsolutedensityby:

    Andconsequentlytheporosityby:


    Andthecompactnessby:

    CementdensityisusuallydeterminedbyPycnometricMethod(orLeChatelierdensimeter).
    Thismethoddeterminesthera ooftheweightofaunitvolumeofthesampleataspeciedtemperature
    totheweightofaunitvolumeofalcoholatthesametemperature.

    Bulkdensityofacementnelygroundcanvarybetween830and1650kg/m3dependingonitshandling.
    Absolutedensityofcementisaround3150kg/m3.

    Porositycanbedeterminedwithvariouslaboratorymethodslike:

    *Op calmethod

    *Mercuryinjec onmethod

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    *Mercuryinjec onmethod

    *Gasexpansionmethod

    *Imbibi onmethod(seeASTMC642)

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    3 BlaineandAirPermeabilityMethod:

    Thenenessofcementismeasuredasspecicsurface.


    Specicsurfaceisexpressedasthetotalsurfaceareainsquarecen metersofallthecementpar clesinonegramofcement.

    Uni esusedaregenerally:cm2/grandalsom2/kg

    Thehigherthespecicsurfaceis,thenercementwillbe.

    ThetablebelowgivestheusualBlainevaluesfordierentmaterials:

    TheairpermeabilitymethodisusedandcommonlycalledBlainemethod.

    3.1. PrincipleoftheBlainemethod:

    Theprincipleofairpermeabilitymethodistodeterminethe metakenforaxedquan tyofairtoowthrougha

    compactedcementbedofspecieddimensionandporosity.

    Understandardcondi ons,thespecicsurfaceareaofcementispropor onaltothesquarerootof meT.

    WhereTisthe meforgivenquan tyofairtoowthroughthecompactedcementbed.

    Thenumberandsizerangeofindividualporesinthespeciedbedaredeterminedbythecementpar clesizedistribu on

    whichalsodeterminedthe meforthespeciedairow.

    Thismethodiscompara veandthereforeareferencesampleofknownspecicsurfaceareaisrequiredtocalibrate

    theapparatus.

    LinktoseetheASTMStandardTestMethod:

    p:// p.ecn.purdue.edu/olek/PTanikela/To%20Prof.%20Olek/ASTM%20standards/blaine%20neness%20ASTM%20C%20204.pdf

    Sketchoftheapparatus:

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    PictureofaBlaineapparatus:

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    3.2. Determina onoftheamountofthecementsample:

    Fillthecellwithmercuryandweighthemercury.

    Compact2,8grofcementinthecellwiththeplunger.

    Filltheremainingvolumeofthecellwithmercury.

    Calculatethevolumeofthecementsamplewiththefollowingformula:

    Where:

    W1isthegramsnumberofmercuryrequiredtollthecellwithoutcement

    W2isthegramsnumberofmercuryrequiredtollthepor onofthecellnotoccupiedbythecementbed
    Dmisthedensityofmercuryatthetesttemperaturewiththefollowingtable:

    Repeatthisprocedure2 mestohaveabe ervolumees ma on(dierence<0,005cm3).


    Calculatetheweightofthecementsamplewiththefollowingformula:

    3.5. Result:


    ThefollowinggeneralformulaisusedtocalculatetheBlainevalueofthecementtobetested:

    Where:
    Wistheweightofthecementsamplerequiredingrams
    istheabsolutecementdensity=3,15gr/cm3

    Visthevolumeofthecementsample(seehereabove)incm3
    nistheporosity(mustbe0,50,005)

    3.3. Calibra onoftheBlaineapparatus:

    Useareferencecementofknownspecicsurface.

    FillthecellwiththeweightWdenedhereaboveandcompactwiththeplunger

    Calculatethe metakenbytheairtoowthecementbed.

    Thisproceduremustberepeated3 meswith3samples.

    Calculatetheaverage meT0

    CalculatetheBlaineFactorBFwiththefollowingformula:

    Where:

    KistheBlainefactor

    S0isthespecicsurfaceareainBlaine(cm2/gr)ofthereferencesample
    T0istheaverage me(seehereabove)

    3.4. Testitself:


    Theprocedureisthesameasthereferencesample(seehereabove).

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    SisthespecicsurfaceBlaine

    KistheBlainefactor

    nistheporosity

    Tistheaverage meofthreetests

    0istheairviscosityduringthetestofthereferencesample
    istheairviscosityduringthetest

    Iftheporosityisthesame,theformulabecomes:


    Ifteststemperaturesareinthesamerangeof3C,theformulabecomes:





    4 Example:

    Where:

    5 OnlineBlaineAnalyser

    Theseinstalla onsareworkingonthesameprincipleofthecementbedtes ngbutareconnectedwith


    anautoma csamplingdevice

    Exampleofasupplier:AB800fromFLSmidth

    6 Blainecalculator:

    Thiscalculatorisavailablehere:

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