Monday, January 25, 2010

Recycle Ground Iron Slag

Iron is a byproduct of the steel industry, and is created by a fusion of ash, limestone and other fluxes which are added to iron. By recycling ground iron slag, you ensure that less waste arrives at the local landfills, and this benefits the environment.


Instructions


1. Use ground iron slag to supplement Portland cement. By recycling ground iron slag in this manner, the quality of the Portland cement is enhanced.


2. Substitute the ground iron ore for Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) when producing concrete. Recycling ground iron ore by using it as a binder system proves to work as well as OPC.


3. Raise the pH of ground iron slag to 14 by treating it with alkali which will allow more silica to solubilize. Recycle the iron ground slag by mixing it with materials and also silica gels and reacting it with alkaline silicic compounds. Allow this mixture to cure, and turn into hard, rock-like materials, which can by recycled by burning it in a steel furnace. This process produces non-polluting slag and iron.


4. Recycle ground iron slag by using it for road surfacing, conditioning the soil, draining sports fields, sandblasting as grit and in the treatment of water as a media for filtering.







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