Abstract

In this paper, the low-cost light-weight proppant ceramics were prepared with the solid wastes of coal gangue as the raw materials, and the effect of sintering temperature on the apparent porosity, bulk density, bending strength, microstructure and phase composition were investigated. The results showed that the ceramics, sintered at 1350°C, has the best performance with the bending strength of 85MPa, bulk density of 2.7 g/cm3 and apparent porosity of 18%. These properties of ceramics were very close to that of the bauxite-sintered, and thus the gangue were very probably selected for the preparation of proppants that involved in the exploitation of coalbed methane.

Details

Title
Effect of Sintering Temperature on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Low-Cost Light-Weight Proppant Ceramics
Author
Wang, K Y 1 ; Wang, H J 1 ; Zhou, Y 1 ; Wu, Y Q 1 ; Li, G M 1 ; Tian, Y M 2 

 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China 
 Shanxi Engineering Vocational College, Taiyuan 030009, China 
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Sep 2017
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17578981
e-ISSN
1757899X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2564113732
Copyright
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