Patents by Inventor Arnaldo Dias de Andrade

Arnaldo Dias de Andrade has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11034617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel cementitious product produced from steelworks slag additivation to obtain material having properties suitable for use in the partial or total clinker replacement for the production of different types of cement. The process, which is also object of this invention, aims to adapt the properties of steelworks slag, by means of thermochemical treatment, including and preferably, but not only, still in the liquid steelworks slag pot, taking advantage of the thermal input of steel processing, to form a greater amount of alite (essential compound to increase pozzolanicity), under controlled conditions. After additivation, preferably, but not exclusively, the additivated steelworks slag is subjected to quenching, comminution and concentration to stabilize the alite fraction, to release the present phases and to remove any excess contaminants, such as metallic iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Gerdau S.A.
    Inventors: Marina Reno Barbosa, Alexandre de Matos, Edson Geraldo da Silva, Arnaldo Dias de Andrade, Ruben Antonio Sole, Fernando Gabriel da Silva Araujo, Jefferson Januario Mendes, Fernando Leopoldo von Krueger
  • Publication number: 20180170805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel cementitious product produced from steelworks slag additivation to obtain material having properties suitable for use in the partial or total clinker replacement for the production of different types of cement. The process, which is also object of this invention, aims to adapt the properties of steelworks slag, by means of thermochemical treatment, including and preferably, but not only, still in the liquid steelworks slag pot, taking advantage of the thermal input of steel processing, to form a greater amount of alite (essential compound to increase pozzolanicity), under controlled conditions. After additivation, preferably, but not exclusively, the additivated steelworks slag is subjected to quenching, comminution and concentration to stabilize the alite fraction, to release the present phases and to remove any excess contaminants, such as metallic iron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Marina Reno Barbosa, Alexandre de Matos, Edson Geraldo da Silva, Arnaldo Dias de Andrade, Ruben Antonio Sole, Fernando Gabriel da Silva Araujo, Jefferson Januario Mendes, Fernando Leopoldo von Krueger
  • Publication number: 20130000522
    Abstract: This process allows the attainment of cementitious materials and activated artificial pozzolana, developed as from shale oils and/or residues of its processing, hereinafter simply called “shale oil”, mixed among them and/or with clays when placed in the rotation oven, in proportion that vary from 1% to 100% of the shale oils in the mixture. These shale oils or mixtures of shale oil with clays, when burn in temperatures between 600° C. and 900° C., in a horizontal oven, in reducing conditions, generate the so called cementitious materials or activated artificial pozzolana, when in contact with the water, providing to the material agglomerating properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Arnaldo Dias de Andrade, Rene Ferreira Junior, Giorgio Francesco Cesare de Tomi, Alexandre Orlandi Passos