Magnesia Cements

There is an urgent need for innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable approaches to reduce the tremendous environmental impact of conventional cement and cement-based technologies. Consuming a significantly lower quantity of natural resources than conventional cements, with the added ability to effectively sequestering carbon, magnesia cements offer great potential in this area. Magnesia Cements: From Formulation to Application explores the latest developments in this exciting area, reviewing the unique properties offered by these cements, including superior strength, fire resistance, and exceptional ability to bond to a wide range of aggregates, and highlighting their potential role in making cement production and usage more sustainable. Providing detailed analysis of the chemistry, properties, manufacture, and both traditional and novel applications, Magnesia Cements: From Formulation to Application is ideally suited for materials scientists, cement chemists, ceramicists, and engineers involved with the design, development, application and impact assessment of magnesia cements across both academia and industry. Provides formulary information research into more environmentally friendly cement systems Discusses chemical phase analysis and the impact of formulation Applies analysis and history of global uses to provide support for future environmentally stable industrial, building, and non-building applications

A Complete Guide to Magnesia-From Mining to End Use Often relegated to footnote status in texts, magnesia isnevertheless a valuable substance widely used in applicationsranging from wastewater treatment to catalysis. The Chemistry andTechnology of Magnesia fills the long-standing gap in theliterature with a comprehensive, one-stop reference to "all thingsmagnesia." The book brings together the many strands of information onmagnesium compounds, their production, testing and evaluation,technology, applications, and markets. Opening with an introductoryhistory of the chemical, it covers the life cycle of magnesia,natural and synthetic production, and uses in different fieldsincluding the environmental, health, and agricultural industries.Readers will find the section on health and safety issuesparticularly relevant. Chapters include: * The History of Magnesia * Synthetic Magnesia * Pulp Applications * Environmental Applications * Magnesia Cements * Furnaces and Kilns * Post Calcination Processing * Other Magnesia Products * Mining and Processing Magnesite * The Physical and Chemical Properties of Magnesium Oxide * Water and Wastewater Application for Magnesia Products * Magnesia in Polymer Applications * The Role of Magnesium in Animal, Plants, and HumanNutrition * Magnesium Salts and Magnesium Metal * The Formation and Occurrence of Magnesite * Calcination of Magnesium Hydroxide and Carbonate * Miscellaneous Magnesia Applications

Includes list of members, 1882-1902 and proceedings of the annual meetings and various supplements.