A method of producing refractory brick includes heating a spent Claus catalyst, reducing a particle size of the catalyst, dry mixing the catalyst with cement to form a dry mixture, adding water to the dry mixture to form a castable mixture, casting the castable mixture in a mold, curing the mold, and drying the mold to form the refractory brick.

A concrete, mortar or grout formulation comprises two separate components: a concrete admixture comprising: (a) a concrete mixture; (b) alkali carbonate; (c) aretarder; and (d) water, an accelerator mixture comprising: (a) anaccelerator component; and (b) water.

This disclosure provides gypsum cement compositions which comprise an aggregate stabilizing mixture containing a combination of a polysaccharide gum and a polyacrylamide-gelatin blend, and methods for making and using these compositions, including pourable/pumpable floor underlayment slurries and methods for forming high strength underlayment on different substrates.

A 3D printable clay-based mortar cementitious ink includes a blend of commercially available Portland cement, calcium carbonate, sand, and calcined clay. The calcined clay is produced from the calcination of clay having a high kaolinite content of greater than about 60%. The clay is calcined at a temperature of between about 600 C. and about 800 C., preferably between about 650 C. and about 850 C., for a period of one to two hours. In a preferred embodiment, a ratio of calcined clay to Portland cement is about 0.148, a ratio of calcium carbonate to Portland cement is about 0.333, and a ratio of sand to Portland cement is approximately about 3.0. The ratio of water to powder (clay, cement, calcium carbonate, and sand) may range between 0.39 and 0.40.

Cementing compositions contain water, a cement and an additive for adjusting thermal conductivity. The additive for adjusting thermal conductivity may be graphite, graphene, aluminum oxide, hematite, copper metal, copper oxide, aluminum, amorphous carbon, gallium metal, iron metal, magnesium oxide, nickel metal, nickel oxide, tin metal, tin oxide, zinc metal or zinc oxide, or combinations thereof. Such compositions may have thermal conductivities exceeding 2 W/mK. Such compositions may be useful in closed loop geothermal completions or for encasing electrical cables.

A novel cement composition for 3D printing including has 90% to 99.5% by weight of one or more cements selected from a Portland cement, an aluminous cement, a sulphoaluminous cement and a prompt natural cement; and has 0.5% to 10% by weight of a silicoaluminous filler having a specific surface area of at least 5 m.sup.2/g, as well as a method for implementing the composition.

Geopolymeric compositions are presented that are useful as geopolymer slurries for cementing subterranean wells. The slurries may contain an aluminosilicate source, an alkaline source and a carrier fluid. The slurries generate an alkali metal or alkaline earth hydroxide activator in situ, thereby avoiding or reducing handling of alkali materials at a wellsite.

A foamed colloidal silica binder having a total porosity of about 50% to about 95% by volume can be used to make porous refractory compositions and refractory articles having a porosity of about 25% to about 75% by volume. The foamed colloidal silica binder endures mixing with refractory ingredients to form the porous refractory composition, casting the refractory composition into a refractory shape, and drying the shape to form to refractory article, without significant collapsing of the foam. The resulting lightweight refractory articles are useful in a wide variety of insulating and weight-reducing applications.

The present invention relates to the use of a soluble magnesium compound for adjusting, in particular reducing, the viscosity of an aluminum sulfate suspension.

An electromagnetic interference (EMI) resistant cementitious ink comprising a hydraulic cement, calcium carbonate, silica sand, taconite material, and a conductive material. A ratio of the silica sand to the taconite material is 1:1. In some embodiments, the taconite material includes taconite powder and fine taconite aggregate having a ratio of 1:1. In some embodiments, the conductive material includes carbon-based nanoparticles in solution. In further embodiments, the EMI-resistant cementitious ink has a shielding effectiveness in accordance with ASTM D4935-18 of at least 4.0 dB.