The present invention belongs to the technical field of metallurgical solid waste resource utilization, and particularly relates to acidification and carbonization coupling modified steel slag as well as a preparation process and an application thereof. The process specifically includes the following steps of adopting acetic acid, tributyl phosphate, ethanolamine and a NaOH and Ca(OH).sub.2 emulsion as reaction reinforcing agents, and modifying the steel slag together with CO.sub.2-rich lime kiln flue gas. The process for modifying the steel slag through acidification and carbonization coupling provided in the present invention has the advantages of simple reaction conditions and no need of high-pressure CO.sub.2, additionally, the carbonation reaction rate can be greatly increased, and f-CaO and f-MgO in the steel slag can be effectively eliminated.

The present invention relates to relates to methods of making concrete from cement and, in particular, methods of making usable standard concrete from aged or otherwise substandard cement.

The present invention relates to coloured fiber cement products as well as to methods for manufacturing such products. In particular, the present invention provides coloured fiber cement products, which fiber cement products are coloured in the mass, and at least comprise on at least part of their outer surface one or more cured layers of a coating composition, which composition at least comprises a binder and a pigment and/or a filler and is characterized by a pigment volume concentration (PVC) of between about 1% and about 20%. The present invention further provides processes for producing these coloured fiber cement products. Finally, the present invention provides uses of the coloured fiber cement products as building materials. In particular embodiments, the fiber cement products produced by the processes of the present invention can be used to provide an outer surface to walls, both internal as well as external, a building or construction, e.g. as fagade plate, siding, etc.

A dry grout composition including a calcium aluminosulfate based hydraulic cement, a mineral filler, a thixotropic agent, and a superplasticizer agent. Also, an anchoring capsule, containing the dry grout composition, for use in anchoring reinforcing member dowel, or anchor elements in a hole of a substrate, and a method of use.

This invention provides low dust low density gypsum wallboard products having high total core void volumes, corresponding to low densities in the range of about 10 to 30 pcf. The wallboards have a set gypsum core formed between two substantially parallel cover sheets, the set gypsum core preferably having a total void volume from about 80% to about 92%, and made from a slurry including stucco, pregelatinized starch, and a naphthalenesulfonate dispersant. The combination of the pregelatinized starch and the naphthalenesulfonate dispersant also provides a glue-like effect in binding the set gypsum crystals together. The wallboard formulation, along with small air bubble voids (and water voids) provides dust control during cutting, sawing, routing, snapping, nailing or screwing down, or drilling of the gypsum-containing products. This invention also provides a method of making the low dust low density gypsum products including the introduction of soap foam in an amount sufficient to form a total void volume, including air voids, preferably from about 80% to about 92% in the set gypsum core, corresponding to a set gypsum core density from about 10 pcf to about 30 pcf. The wallboards produced by the method generate significantly less dust during working.

Lightweight synthetic particles that replace traditional aggregates and methods of producing the same are disclosed herein.

A hydraulic composition for the construction of pavements, and in particular for the repair of pavements, includes a hydraulic binder including a cement, 0.18% to 0.35% of a superplasticiser, where the percentage is expressed by dry weight compared to the cement, and where the superplasticiser includes a branched polymer including at least one pendant chain, with a terminal function of the phosphonate or phosphate type, and 0.25% to 2% of a setting accelerator, where the percentage is expressed by dry weight compared to the cement, where the setting accelerator includes a calcium salt, where the hydraulic composition has a Water/Cement ratio higher than 0.38 and strictly less than 0.45.

The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing micronized sandstone obtained from ceramics or industrial wastes of ceramic manufacturing, such as white paste, natural stones or clinker, including TiO.sub.2 as bio-additive, and product obtained by the micronized sandstone thereof. The ceramics and industrial wastes of ceramic are grinded in several steps and the resultant powders are collected by means of individual filters and further combined in a nanopowder micronizer for posterior treatment, where TiO.sub.2 hydrolyzed can be optionally added. This micronized sandstone comprising the bio-additive TiO.sub.2 is used in the production of plasters, mortars, grouts and/or as additive for paints and/or epoxy enriched with TiO.sub.2. The micronized sandstone bio-additive with TiO.sub.2 can be additionally subjected to two optional embodiments of the invention: treatment with or without the use of a pigment. In order to obtain the final product that can be used in the production of blocks, floors and other products of various sizes, an agglomerating agent combined with TiO.sub.2 is added to the micronized sandstone comprising the bio-additive TiO.sub.2, either in an aqueous solution or as a dry product, optionally including colored oxides.

The invention relates to mortar or concrete produced with a hydraulic binder, comprising aggregates from cinders from the bottom of municipal waste incinerators and/or from slurry from wastewater treatment plants, or other natural or artificial aggregates, of different particle sizes depending of the use thereof as mortar or concrete, and a binder consisting of: glass and/or other pozzolans; pure Portland clinker with gypsum or plaster of Paris, or the resulting cements following the grinding thereof; and/or optionally lime, depending on the quantity of glass and/or pozzolans; all of the materials forming the base of the binder being ground and mixed together until a binder is obtained, together with the aggregates, with cementing mineral neoformations and a strong pozzolanic character.

Described herein is a building panel comprising a substrate and an odor and VOC reducing coating applied to the substrate, the coating comprising a blend of a first component comprising ethylene urea; a second component comprising silica; and a rheology modifier.