Abstract:
A process for producing a honeycomb structure includes: manufacturing a honeycomb-shaped formed article by kneading a forming raw material containing ceramic as a main component and a forming auxiliary, an additive, and a pore former to prepare kneaded clay and forming and drying the kneaded clay, calcining the honeycomb formed article to obtain a calcined article, and firing the calcined article. Upon performing a tensile load measurement of the kneaded clay or the formed article, a slope θ of the straight line through an inflection point b and an yielding point c of a graph showing a relation between the tensile load and a displacement amount is below 100% of a slope δ of the straight line through a starting point a where an elastic deformation is shown and the inflection point b.
Abstract:
Natural fiber-containing cement compositions for cementing wellbores in high stress and high temperature environments. The cement compositions may contain natural mineral fiber materials such as wollastonite in an amount of greater than about 10% and in an amount selected to be effective to achieve ratios of flexural strength to compressive strength of cured cement that are greater than about 0.35 at downhole temperatures of greater than about 180° F.
Abstract:
A cement composition for use in borehole applications comprising hydraulic cement, sufficient water to form a slurry, and an effective amount of a resilience/toughness enhancing additive comprising a thermoplastic block copolymer having a tensile strength of from 500 to 4000 psi, a recoverable elongation of 200 to 1000 percent and exhibiting temperature stability in the range of 30E to 500 EF, the cement composition being useful for forming seals at desired locations in wellbores or formations penetrated by wellbores by placing the composition in the desired location and permitting the composition to set.
Abstract:
A fill material mix that includes coal processing wastes, at least one coal combustion by-product and a neutralizing/stabilizing by-product that may be the same as or different than the coal combustion by-product is mixed with water to form a mortar. The mortar can be placed in abandoned mines and other appropriate underground or surface locations as a fill material that is environmentally more benign that the individual components of the mix. The mortar cures rapidly to provide a surface that can support heavy equipment.
Abstract:
A method of preparation and use of high-strength gypsum wallboard, as well as a core composition suitable for use therein, are disclosed. The core composition includes a slurry of calcium sulfate hemihydrate (stucco), water, and a strengthening agent. The strengthening agent includes an acrylic polymer composition having a glass transition temperature of about 15.degree. C. or greater, and preferably has good divalent ion stability. The method provides wallboard having increased core strength, paper-to-core bonding, and strength-to-weight ratio.
Abstract:
High-flexural-strength concrete is produced by mixing wet hydraulic cement-sand mixture with coarse, flat, tabular aggregate, pouring the resulting mixture into a form in a shallow layer, vibrating the form containing the mixture, thereby orienting the coarse aggregate particles, pouring another shallow layer of the mixture into the form, again vibrating the form, and repeating these processes until the form has been filled to the desired level. The mixture then is allowed to cure. Cast-in-place items are prepared by placing thin layers or lifts of oriented, tabular-aggregate concrete into conventional forms and vibrating each lift using flat-plate vibrators.
Abstract:
A cementitious mixture includes hydraulic cement, fly ash, and an effective amount of unfired nature finely divided material, such as a clay, containing at least about 35% alumina, to accelerate the early strength of a mix. A method of accelerating early strength in a cementitious mix comprises the adding of alumina in the form of an unfired raw material, such as clay, in an effective amount in such mix.
Abstract:
A method of treating the surface of a metal casing used in a wellbore by conditioning the metal casing in a conditioning fluid to form a conditioned metal casing, contacting the conditioned metal casing with a treatment fluid to form a treated metal casing, and drying the treated metal casing. A method of increasing the bond strength between cement and a metal casing surface treated with a reactive organic compound by curing the treated metal casing with a cement slurry.
Abstract:
A thixotropic slurry material can be used in a wellbore during a wellbore operation. The wellbore operation can include a drilling operation, a cementing operation, or any other suitable operation that may include injecting a liquid material into the wellbore. The thixotropic slurry material can be a mixture of a cement, a clay mineral, and a suspending agent and can be injected into a wellbore during the wellbore operation.
Abstract:
A binder composition in dry weight percentage comprises a) between 1% and 30% of at least one lime source, b) between 5% and 75% of ground granulated blast furnace slag, (c) between 20% and 90% of at least one filler, (d) between 0.1% and 5% of SO3−, e) between 0.1% and 1% of at least one water reducer polymer, f) between 0% and 2%, relative to the total weight of components a, b and c, of at least one activator different from d, the weights of d, e, f relative to the total weight of components a, b, c, said ground granulated blast furnace slag and the filler each being a mixture of two differently sized particles, the different sizes based on d50 and range of between 1 μm and 5 μm and >5 μm for the slag and between 0.05 μm and