Abstract: A computer-implemented broker entity receives from a requesting device a request for one or more target values of state information that have sought target semantic meanings; obtains one or more source values of state information that are associated with given source semantic meanings; obtains at least in part from a transformation library one or more transformations, wherein each transformation maps one or more first values that are associated with first semantic meanings to one or more second values that are associated with second semantic meanings; applies the one or more transformations or a new transformation obtained based on the one or more transformations to the source values of state information, thereby obtaining the one or more target values of state information; and transmits the one or more target values to the requesting device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of enhancing the latent hydraulic and/or pozzolanic reactivity of materials, especially of waste and by-products, comprising the steps: providing a starting material containing sources for CaO and at least one of SiO2 and AI2O3 mixing the starting material with water at a water/solids ratio from 0.1 to 100 hydrothermal treating of the starting material mixed with water in an autoclave at a temperature of 100 to 300° C. and a residence time from 0.1 to 24 hours to provide an autoclaved product suitable as supplementary cementitious material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a binder comprising the following steps: a) providing a starting material, from raw materials, that has a molar (Ca+Mg)/(Si+Al+Fe) ratio from 1 to 3.5, a molar ratio Ca/Mg from 0.1 to 100, and a molar Al/Si ratio from 100 to 0.1, wherein constituents that are inert during the hydrothermal treatment in an autoclave are not taken into account for determination of the ratios, b) mixing the raw materials, c) hydrothermal treating of the starting material mixture produced in step b) in an autoclave at a temperature from 100 to 300° C. and a residence time from 0.1 to 24 h, wherein the water/solids ratio is 0.1 to 100, d) tempering the intermediate product obtained in step c) at 350 to 600° C., wherein the heating rate is 10-6000° C./min and the residence time is 0.01-600 min.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a belite calcium aluminate obtainable in a method comprising the following steps: a) providing a starting material that has a molar Ca/(Si+Al+Fe) ratio from 1.0 to 3.5 and a molar Al/Si ratio from 100 to 0.1, b) mixing the raw materials, c) hydrothermal treating of the starting material mixture produced in step b) in an autoclave at a temperature from 100 to 300° C. and a residence time from 0.1 to 24 h, wherein the water/solids ratio is 0.1 to 100, d) tempering the intermediate product obtained in step c) at 350 to 600° C., wherein the heating rate is 10-6000° C./min and the residence time is 0.01-600 min as an accelerator for Portland cement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to composite binders containing calcium sulfoaluminate cement and supplementary cementitious material, wherein a weight ratio of calcium sulfate to the sum of ye'elimite, aluminates and ferrites (R$/(Y+A+F)) ranges from 0.5 to 0.85, to a method of manufacturing them comprising the steps: a) providing at least one calcium sulfoaluminate cement b) providing at least one supplementary cementitious material c) mixing 10 to 90% by weight calcium sulfoaluminate cement(s) with 10 to 90% by weight supplementary cementitious material(s), and to their use for making hydraulically setting building materials and special construction chemical compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production calcium sulfoaluminate (belite, ferrite, ternesite) clinker using fluxes/mineralizers comprising the following steps —providing a raw meal comprising at least sources of CaO, AI2O3, SO3 —sintering the raw meal in a kiln at 1100 to 1350° C. to provide a clinker, —cooling the clinker, wherein at least one compound containing copper and a glass powder or a glass powder are added prior to sintering. The invention further relates to the clinker obtained, as well as to calcium sulfoaluminate based cements and binders produced from the clinker.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a binder comprising calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA) cement and a magnesium compound, to a method of enhancing strength development and/or increasing compressive strength of building structures from CSA binders and to the use of magnesium compounds as additives for increasing compressive strength of hydrated CSA binders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a belite calcium aluminate obtainable in a method comprising the following steps: a) providing a starting material that has a molar Ca/(Si+Al+Fe) ratio from 1.0 to 3.5 and a molar Al/Si ratio from 100 to 0.1, b) mixing the raw materials, c) hydrothermal treating of the starting material mixture produced in step b) in an autoclave at a temperature from 100 to 300° C. and a residence time from 0.1 to 24 h, wherein the water/solids ratio is 0.1 to 100, d) tempering the intermediate product obtained in step c) at 350 to 600° C., wherein the heating rate is 10-6000° C./min and the residence time is 0.01-600 min as an accelerator for Portland cement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a binder comprising the following steps: a) providing a starting material, from raw materials, that has a molar (Ca+Mg)/(Si+Al+Fe) ratio from 1 to 3.5, a molar ratio Ca/Mg from 0.1 to 100, and a molar Al/Si ratio from 100 to 0.1, wherein constituents that are inert during the hydrothermal treatment in an autoclave are not taken into account for determination of the ratios, b) mixing the raw materials, c) hydrothermal treating of the starting material mixture produced in step b) in an autoclave at a temperature from 100 to 300° C. and a residence time from 0.1 to 24 h, wherein the water/solids ratio is 0.1 to 100, d) tempering the intermediate product obtained in step c) at 350 to 600° C., wherein the heating rate is 10-6000° C./min and the residence time is 0.01-600 min.

Abstract: The present invention relates to binders based on latently hydraulic and/or pozzolanic materials that are activated by an addition of ternesite (C5S2$).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of enhancing the latent hydraulic and/or pozzolanic reactivity of materials, especially of waste and by-products, comprising the steps: providing a starting material containing sources for CaO and at least one of SiO2 and AI2O3 mixing the starting material with water at a water/solids ratio from 0.1 to 100 hydrothermal treating of the starting material mixed with water in an autoclave at a temperature of 100 to 300° C. and a residence time from 0.1 to 24 hours to provide an autoclaved product suitable as supplementary cementitious material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for accelerating the hardening of hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders, wherein ternesite and an aluminum component are added to the binder, and relates to an additive that increasing early strength for hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders that contain ternesite and a non-hydraulically reactive aluminum component, and relates to the use of an additive comprising ternesite and an aluminum component for the purpose of accelerating the hardening of hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ternesite calcium sulfoaluminate clinker as well as a ternesite clinker containing 20 to 100% by weight of C5S2$ and less than 15% by weight of C4A3$, as well as the use of ternesite as an additive to calcium sulfoaluminate (ferrite) (belite) (CSA(F)(B)) clinker, calcium sulfoaluminate (ferrite) (belite) cement, and calcium sulfoaluminate (ferrite) (belite) binder containing 10 to 90% by weight of CSA(F)(B) and 90 to 10% by weight of ternesite.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of ternesite clinkers containing 20 to 95% by weight C5S2$ and less than 15% by weight C4A3$, and to the use of ternesite as an additive to hydraulic and/or latent hydraulic and/or pozzolanic materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of ternesite clinkers containing 20 to 100% by weight C5S2$ and less than 15% by weight C4A3$, and to the use of ternesite as an additive to Portland cement or Portland composite cement, and to a binder containing 20 to 95% by weight Portland cement (clinker) and 80 to 5% by weight ternesite (clinker).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of a ternesite-belite-calcium sulfoaluminate (ferrite) clinker. The invention also relates to the use of alternative raw materials for clinker production, for example raw materials based on industrial byproducts, including those of low quality, such as lump slag and ash having a low glass content and/or a high free lime content and/or a high content of crystalline high-temperature phases, as well as naturally occurring rocks and rock glasses of comparative chemical composition.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the preparation of a hardening accelerator composition by reaction of a water-soluble calcium compound with a water-soluble silicate compound and by reaction of a calcium compound with a silicon dioxide containing component under alkaline conditions, in both cases the reaction being carried out in the presence of a polycondensate containing at least one structural unit consisting of an aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety bearing a polyether side chain and at least one structural unit consisting of an aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety bearing at least one phosphoric acid ester group and/or its salt. The invention concerns a composition of calcium silicate hydrate and the polycondensate, its use as hardening accelerator and for the reduction of the permeability of hardened compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of a ternesite-belite-calcium sulfoaluminate (ferrite) clinker. The invention also relates to the use of alternative raw materials for clinker production, for example raw materials based on industrial byproducts, including those of low quality, such as lump slag and ash having a low glass content and/or a high free lime content and/or a high content of crystalline high-temperature phases, as well as naturally occurring rocks and rock glasses of comparative chemical composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to binders based on latently hydraulic and/or pozzolanic materials that are activated by an addition of ternesite (C5S2$).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for accelerating the hardening of hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders, wherein ternesite and an aluminum component are added to the binder, and relates to an additive that increasing early strength for hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders that contain ternesite and a non-hydraulically reactive aluminum component, and relates to the use of an additive comprising ternesite and an aluminum component for the purpose of accelerating the hardening of hydraulic or latent hydraulic binders.