Abstract: A section of concrete intended to form a mast for a windmill, the section including a first portion including a first flange, a second portion including a second flange, a prestressing device including at least one visible part located between the first flange and the second flange, a first attaching device arranged to be connected to the first flange, and/or a second attaching device arranged to be connected to the second flange.

Abstract: A method for producing a composite insulating mineral block, includes providing a mineral masonry block including at least one cell with walls having a water absorption rate of less than 5 g/(m2·s) at 10 minutes, and filling the cell with a mineral cement foam, wherein a cement used to produce the mineral cement foam has an aluminum oxide content of less than 20% by weight of the cement.

Abstract: A hydraulic binder which includes a clinker with a specific shape, the clinker including as main phases, given as weight percentages relative to the total weight of the clinker: (i) 70 to 95% of a belite phase having a particle size such that the Dv50 ranges from 5 to 15 ?m; (ii) 5 to 30% of a calcium aluminoferrite phase; and (iii) less than 5% of minor phases; the clinker having an Al2O3/Fe2O3 weight ratio of less than 1.5; and the clinker including less than 5% of alite phase and less than 5% of calcium sulphoaluminate phase; and at least 0.5% dry weight of an activator made of calcium sulphate, as a weight percentage relative to the total weight of phases (i) to (iii).

Abstract: A hydraulic composition includes in relative parts by mass with respect to the cement 100 parts of cement the particles of which have a BET specific surface area comprised from 1.20 to 5 m2/g; 32 to 42 parts of water; 5 to 50 parts of a mineral addition A1 the particles of which have a D50 less than or equal to 6 ?m and selected from silica fume, metakaolin, slag, pozzolans or mixtures thereof; 90 to 230 parts of sand the particles of which have a D50 greater than or equal to 50 ?m and a D90 less than or equal to 3 mm; 0.0001 to 10 parts of a superplasticizer, the active material concentration of which is 15% by mass.

Abstract: A process to inert non-swelling clays in at least one mineral component intended for the preparation of a hydraulic composition, including the addition, to the hydraulic composition, to the mineral component or to one of the other constituents of the hydraulic composition, of an organic molecule having a cationic charge density strictly less than 0.5 meq/g and including at least two atoms each being capable of forming at least one hydrogen bond.

Abstract: A cementitious binder, includes a hydraulic binder; a first siliceous based material, which has a (SiO2)/(Al2O3) ratio by weight greater than 2.5; a second siliceous based material, which is different from the first siliceous based material and has (a) a (SiO2)/(Al2O3) ratio by weight greater than 10 and (b) a BET specific surface area greater than 5 m2/g; and an aluminum based material, which has a (SiO2)/(Al2O3) ratio by weight lower than 2.5, wherein 0.09<AlEFF/(AlEFF+SiEFF)<0.28, where AlEFF=molar content of alumina in the hydraulic binder, and SiEFF=molar content of silica in the first siliceous based material for particles having a size lower than 3 ?m+molar content of silica in the second siliceous based material.

Abstract: A hydraulic binder includes, as percentage by mass: from 17 to 55% of a Portland cement, the particles of which have a D50 of from 2 ?m to 11 ?m; at least 5% of silica fume; from 36 to 70% of a mineral addition A1, the particles of which have a D50 of from 15 to 150 ?m; the sum of these percentages being from 80 to 100%; the sum of the percentages of cement and of silica fume being greater than 28%; the mineral addition A1 being selected from slags, pozzolanic additions or siliceous additions such as quartz, silico-calcareous mineral additions, calcareous additions such as calcium carbonate or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The invention provides novel, microstructured clinker and cement materials that are characterized by superior grindability and reactivity. The disclosed clinker and cement materials are based on carbonatable calcium silicate and can be made from widely available, low cost raw materials via a process suitable for large-scale production. The method of the invention is flexible in equipment and processing requirements and is readily adaptable to manufacturing facilities of conventional Portland cement.

Abstract: A process for producing a mineral foam includes (i) separately preparing one or more slurries of cement, and an aqueous foam for which a D50 of bubbles is less than or equal to 400 ?m; (ii) homogenizing the one or more slurries of cement with the aqueous foam to obtain a slurry of foamed cement; (iii) casting the slurry of foamed cement and leaving the cast slurry of foamed cement to set.

Abstract: A production process includes introducing the material to be moulded into a mould, placing the mould in an envelope comprising a vacuum port; creating a low pressure in the envelope by formation of a gas flow through the vacuum port; deforming the mould; stopping the gas flow; and applying pressure on at least a portion of the mould, optionally with interposition of the envelope, at least after the gas flow is stopped.

Abstract: A hydraulic binder includes a belite sulfoaluminate clinker and silica having a BET specific surface area in nitrogen of at least 50 m2/g, the quantity of silica being lower than or equal to 5%, the percentage being expressed as a mass percentage in relation to the mass of the binder.

Abstract: A hydraulic binder includes a Portland clinker having a Blaine specific surface of 4000 to 5500 cm2/g, from 2.5 to 8% of sulphate expressed by mass of SO3 relative to the mass of clinker, from 1.5 to 10% of calcium nitrite and/or calcium nitrate expressed as anhydrous mass relative to the mass of clinker and from 15 to 50% of a mineral addition including calcium carbonate by mass relative to the total mass of binder.

Abstract: Method and installation for calcining cement raw meal in a calciner whereby fuel and a calciner oxidant having an oxygen content of at least 30% vol are introduced into the calciner so as to generate either an oxidant-lean zone or a fuel-lean zone in the calciner located between the lowermost fuel inlet level and the lowermost oxidant inlet level of the calciner, between 50% and 100% by weight of the raw meal being supplied to the calciner upstream of and/or within the oxidant-lean, respectively the fuel-lean zone.

Abstract: A process for the treatment of a silicate mineral, includes: preparing a first composition including an alkali metal magnesium orthosilicate and optionally either (i) magnesium oxide or (ii) an alkali metal silicate, by reaction, at a temperature from 500 to 1200° C., of an alkali metal carbonate compound, which compound is an alkali metal carbonate, an alkali metal bicarbonate or a mixture thereof, with a magnesium silicate, the molar ratio of alkali metal carbonate compound, expressed as alkali metal oxide of the formula R2O, in which R represents an alkali metal, to magnesium silicate, expressed as silicon dioxide, of the formula SiO2, being from 4:1 to 1:4, and contacting the first composition with water to produce a second composition comprising an amorphous magnesium silicate hydrate (M-S—H).

Abstract: An inerting process for impurities in aggregates intended for preparation of hydraulic or hydrocarbon compositions, includes adding to the composition or to one of its constituents a cationic polymer corresponding to at least one derivative of a natural polymer or a polymer of natural origin selected from the group including dextrin (in particular yellow dextrin and white dextrin), chitosan, chitin, alginates, hemicellulose, pectin, polyols or proteins.

Abstract: A bag is used to provide an admixture for a hydraulic composition, wherein a wall of the bag includes a layer, the layer including a water-soluble polymer, and wherein an admixture is present in the wall of the bag.

Abstract: A treatment process for the production of a hydraulic composition with entrained air including at least one admixture and a constituent including carbonaceous materials, the process including: obtaining a representative value of the adsorption of probe molecules by the carbonaceous materials; and producing the hydraulic composition or treating the constituent with a quantity of admixture which depends on the value.

Abstract: A method for controlling at least one workability parameter of a concrete contained in the container of a mixer with a non vertical rotational axis, includes making the container turn at least at least two different rotational speeds; determining, for each of the rotational speeds, a rotary drive torque C of the container, a value of shear stress r of the concrete and a speed gradient ? of the concrete according to the following relationships: ?=T(?)·C and ?=G(?). ? where T and G are predetermined functions; determining a relationship of variation of shear stress ? according to the speed gradient ? by extrapolation and/or approximation from the determined values; and providing an indication of the workability parameter of the concrete based on the relationship variation.

Abstract: A process for the mineralization of carbon dioxide to form a magnesium carbonate compound, which process includes contacting the carbon dioxide, in the free form, or in the form of an alkali metal carbonate or bicarbonate, with an alkali metal magnesium silicate to produce the magnesium carbonate compound.

Abstract: A process for decarbonation of particles of raw meal, to be burnt in a clinkering kiln at a cement plant, the process includes: a) decarbonation of particles of raw meal, in a fluidized bed heat exchanger, the particles being suspended in a rising carrier gas including carbon dioxide, the fluidized bed heat exchanger having a solid heat carrier circulating counter-current relative to the carrier gas, to provide an effluent gas including carbon dioxide and decarbonated raw meal; b) separating the effluent gas and the decarbonated raw meal c) separating the effluent gas into a first and second part; cooling the first part of the effluent gas and recycling to provide carrier gas, d) isolating the second part of effluent gas e) recovering and re-heating the heat carrier and recirculating to step (a).