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Cement Production, and Health Risk Caused by Chromium
24-05-2016 Hits:438 Technology Documents Super User
Basically, cement is produced in two steps: in the first step cement clinker is produced from raw materials. In the second step cement is produced from the cement clinker. The first step can be dry, wet, semi-dry or semi-wet process, according to the state of the raw materials. The raw...
Read moreSilicon Nanowire, Tenfold Energy On the Way
20-05-2016 Hits:423 Technology Documents Super User
Stanford University researchers have made a discovery that could signal the arrival of laptop batteries that last more than a day on a single charge. The researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to give rechargeable lithium ion batteries --used in laptops, iPods, video cameras, and mobile phones--as...
Read moreDevelopment of Calcium Aluminate Cement and Arousing Problems
20-05-2016 Hits:451 Technology Documents Super User
Calcium aluminate cements are cements consisting predominantly of hydraulic calcium aluminates. Alternative names are "aluminous cement", "high-alumina cement" and "Ciment fondu" in French. They are used in a number of small-scale, specialized applications. History The method of making cement from limestone and low-silica bauxite was patented in France in 1908 by Bied...
Read moreProtective Coating Leading to Innovation of Electrode Performance
13-05-2016 Hits:436 Technology Documents Super User
Reducing the specific graphite consumption is one major issue for electric steel plants and can be achieved in several ways, particularly by protecting the electrode surface from oxidation or at least delaying the start of the oxidation process. For more than 40 years, the most efficient technique applied in electric...
Read moreGraphene, Super Materia Emerging
12-05-2016 Hits:515 Technology Documents Super User
The word “super-material” gets thrown around a lot these days — ceramic super-materials, aerogel super materials, elastomeric super materials. But one super-material overshadows them all, earning its discoverers a Nobel Prize and defining the upper limit for scientific hype and excitement. It has the potential to revolutionize processing, power storage...
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