• Computers and Concrete
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• 제3권2_3호
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• pp.163-175
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• 2006

This research was conducted to determine effect of pumice aggregate ratio, cement dosage and slumps on freeze-thaw resistance, density, water absorption and elasticity of concrete. In the first batch, $300kg/m^3$ cement dosage were kept constant and pumice ratios were changed as 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of replacement for normal aggregate by volume for $3{\pm}1cm$, $5{\pm}1cm$ and $7{\pm}1cm$ slumps. Other batches were prepared with $200kg/m^3$, $250kg/m^3$, $350kg/m^3$, $400kg/m^3$ and $500kg/m^3$ cement dosages and 25% pumice aggregate +75% normal aggregate at a constant slump. Test results showed that when pumice-aggregate ratio decreased the density and freeze-thaw resistance of concretes increased. With increasing of cement dosage in the mixtures, density of the concretes increased, however, freeze-thaw resistance of concretes decreased. Water absorption of the concrete decreased with increasing cement dosage but increased with the pumice ratio. Water absorption of the concrete also decreased after freeze-thaw cycles. Freeze-thaw resistance of concretes was decreased with increasing the slumps.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.161-173
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• 2020

The removal of two dyes, namely Methylene Blue (MB) and Reactive Brillant Red (RR) from aqueous solution was investigated using magnetite iron coated pumice (MIP) composite in the Fenton-like oxidation process. A weight ratio of 2.5 g (with the molar ratio of Fe³⁺ to Fe²⁺ to be 2) (5%) of iron to the total pumice (50 g) was enabled during synthesis of catalyst. Surface composition and characteristics of the catalyst were assessed by SEM-EDX, FT-IR, Raman spectral analysis. The effect of the amount of pumice solely used or MIP, H₂O₂ concentration, pH and initial concentration of MB or RR dyes on Fenton-like process efficiency was investigated. EDAX spectrums of pumice and MIP showed that oxygen and silisium are the major elements. The Fe content of MIP increased to 2.24%. SEM, FT-IR and Raman spectrums confirmed the impregnation of Fe on pumice surface. The experimental results revealed that high removal rates of dyes could be obtained using MIP that demonstrated a higher stability for removal of MB dye. pH affected the removal efficiency of both dyes and the degradation of both dyes was sharply dropped when pH was increased above 4. The removal of dyes did not significantly change with increasing H₂O₂ concentration. Degradation rates of both MB and RR dyes increased 3.3 and 2.8 times with the use of MIP compared to pumice alone, respectively. Furthermore, MIP enabled a good removal efficiency at higher dye concentrations. It can be emphasized that MIP composite can be used in the heterogeneous Fenton-like systems considering the economic and easily separation aspects.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.909-918
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• 2015

This paper presents an experimental study for determining the bond performance of lightweight concretes produced using pumice aggregate coated with colemanite-cement paste. For this purpose, eight hinged beam specimens were produced with four different concrete mixtures. 14 mm deformed bars with $10{\Phi}$ development lengths were selected constant for all test specimens. All the specimens were tested in bending and load-slip values were measured experimentally to determine the effect of colemanite-cement coated pumice aggregate on bond performances of lightweight concretes. Test results showed that, colemanite-cement coated pumice aggregate increases compressive strength and bond performance of the lightweight concretes, considerably.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.37-50
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• 2016

The main objective of this study is to evaluate adsorptive removal of Methylene Blue (MB) dye from aqueous solution using pumice powder. The effects of pH, adsorption time, agitation speed, adsorbent dose, and dye concentrations on dye adsorption were investigated. Process kinetics and isotherm model constants were determined accordingly. The results showed that adsorbent dose, dye concentration and agitation speed are the important parameters on dye adsorption and the removal of MB did not significantly change by varying pH. A total adsorption process time of 60 min was observed to be sufficient to effectively remove 50 mg/L MB concentration. The MB adsorption data obeyed both pseudo first order and second order kinetic models. Adsorption of MB by pumice fitted well both Langmiur and Freundlich isotherms ($R^2{\geq}0.9700$), except for 150 rpm agitation speed that system fitted only Langmiur isotherm. The results of this study emphasize that pumice powder can be used as a low cost and effective adsorbent for dye removal.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.83-95
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• 1996

The normal cement concrete is widely used material to build the construction recently, but it has a fault to increase the dead load on account of its unit weight is large compared with strength. So, main purpose of this study was to establish the physical and mechanical properties of lightweight concrete using expanded polystyrene bead on fine aggregate and natural gravel, expanded clay and pumice stone on coarse aggregate. The test rusults of this study are summarized as follows; 1. The water-cement ratio of concrete using pumice stone was larger than that of the concrete using natural gravel and expanded clay. 2. The unit weights of concrete using pumice stone and expanded caly were shown less than 1,000g/$m^3$. 3. The compressive strengths of all types were shown less than 60kg/$cm^2$, tensile and bending strengths were shown less than l3kg/$cm^2$ and 3lkg/$cm^2$$^2$, respectively. 4. The pulse velocity of concrete was shown similar with using natural gravel and pumice stone, and shown the lowest using pumice stone. 5. The dynamic modulus of elasticity of concrete was shown considerably smaller, and shown the lowest using pumice stone. 6. The static modulus of elasticity of concrete using expanded clay and pumice stone were shown considerably smaller, and shown 22% ~29% as compared with the dynamic modulus of elasticity. 7. The stress-strain curves of concrete were shown similar, generally. And the curves were repeated at short intervals increase and decreased irregularly.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.791-800
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• 1997

교정치료를 목적으로 발거한 소구치 60개를 4군으로 나누고 치과용 저속 절삭기에서 $18,500{\pm}300rpm$으로 회전속도를 일정하게 하여 4가지 회전 마무리 기구(G1; No. 169L carbide fissure bur, G2; No.2 round bur, G3; No.4 round bur, G4; No.8 round bur)로 잔여 레진을 제거하고 러버컵과 pumice로 법랑질을 5초간 마무리하였을 때 법랑질 손상에 미치는 정도를 알아보기 위해 브라켓 부착전 러버컵과 pumice로 전처치한 후(P1), 각 군에 해당하는 방법으로 잔여 레진을 제거한 후(P2), 러버컵과 pumice로 마지막 마무리 후(P3)의 법랑질 표면거칠기를 표면거칠기 측정기에서 각각 측정하고 주사전자현미경하에서 관찰하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. P2에서 법랑질의 표면거칠기는 G1군의 경우 $2.60{\pm}0.55{\mu}m$으로 가장 매끄럽게 나타났고 G2군의 경우 $3.24{\pm}0.80{\mu}m$, G3군의 경우 $3.44{\pm}0.94{\mu}m$으로 나타났고 G4군의 경우 $3.89{\pm}0.54{\mu}m$으로 가장 거칠게 나타났으며 G2군과 G3군은 통계학적으로 유의성이 없었다(p>0.05). 2. P3에서 법랑질의 표면거칠기는 G1군의 경우 $2.29{\pm}0.47{\mu}m$으로 가장 매끄럽게 나타났고 G2군의 경우 $2.44{\pm}0.56{\mu}m$, G3군의 경우 $2.44{\pm}0.58{\mu}m$으로 나타났고 G4군의 경우 $2.92{\pm}0.43{\mu}m$으로 가장 거칠게 나타났으며 G1군은 G2군, G3군과, G2군은 G3군과 통계학적으로 유의성이 없었다(p>0.05). 3. 모든 군에서 P2, P3는 P1보다. P2는 P3보다 표면거칠기가 거칠게 나타났다(p<0.01). 4. 아무 처치도 하지 않은 정상 법랑질에 러버컵과 pumice로 5초간 전처치한 경우 주사전자현미경관찰에서 미세한 긁힘을 발견할 수 있었고 네군 모두에서 러버컵과 pumice로 연마 후에도 제거할 수 없는 흠을 남기며 러버컵과 pumice로 마무리 후 육안관찰시 잔여 레진을 발견할 수 없었으나 주사전자현미경하에서는 레진 잔사 등을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.283-288
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• 2020

This study investigated the purification process of groundwater contaminated with zinc and arsenic using a permeable reactive barrier with a zero-valent iron/pumice mixture. We determined the removal rates of the contaminants for 30 days. In this study, column reactor filled with the zero-valent iron/pumice reactive mixture was used. Experimental results showed that the mixture exhibited an almost complete removal of the zinc and arsenic ions. Arsenic was removed via co-precipitation and adsorption processes while zinc ions were asorbed in active sites.The purification process of water from the metal ionscontinued for 30 days with constant hydraulic conductivity because of the enhanced porosity of the pumice and interparticle distance between the zero-valent iron and pumice. Contaminants removal rates and the remediation mechanism for each reactive system are described in this paper.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.225-237
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• 2019

Although applying self-consolidating concrete (SCC) in many modern structures is an inevitable fact, the high consumption of cement in its mixing designs has led to increased production costs and adverse environmental effects. In order to find economically viable sources with environmentally friendly features, natural pozzolan pumice and blast furnace slag in 10-50% of replacement binary designs have been investigated for experiments on the properties of fresh concrete, mechanical properties, and durability. As a natural pozzolan, pumice does not require advanced equipment to prepare for consumption and only needs to be powdered. Pumice has been the main focus of this research because of simple preparation. Also to validate the results, in addition to the control specimens of each design, fly ash as a known powder has been evaluated. Moreover, ternary mixes of pumice and silica fume were investigated to enhance the obtained results of binary mixes. It was concluded that pumice and slag powders indicated favorable performance in the high percentage of replacement.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.241-252
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• 2021

An experimental program was conducted to investigate the fresh properties, mechanical properties and durability characteristics of the self-compacting mortars (SCM) produced with pumice powder and Artificial Lightweight Fine Aggregate (aLWFA). aLWFA was produced by using fly ash. A total of 16 different mixtures were designed with a constant water-binder ratio of 0.37, in which natural sands were partially replaced with aLWFA and pumice powder at different volume fractions of 5%, 10% and 15%. The artificial lightweight aggregates used in this study were manufactured through cold bonding pelletisation of 90% of class-F fly ash and 10% of Portland cement in a tilted pan with an ambient temperature and moisture content. Flowability tests were conducted on the fresh mortar mixtures beforehand, to determine the self-compacting characteristics on the basis of EFNARC. To determine the conformity of the fresh mortar characteristics with the standards, mini-slump and mini-V-funnel tests were carried out. Hardened state tests were conducted after 7, 28 and 56 days to determine the flexural strength and axial compressive strength respectively. Durability, sorptivity, permeability and density tests were conducted at the end of 28 days of curing time. The test results showed that the pumice powder replacement improved both the fresh state and the hardened state characteristics of the mortar and the optimum mixture ratio was determined as 15%, considering other studies in the literature. In the aLWFA mixtures used, the mechanical and durability characteristics of the modified compositions were very close to the control mixture. It is concluded in this study that mixtures with pumice powder replacement eliminated the negative effects of the aLWFA in the mortars and made a positive contribution.

• 한국광물학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.151-164
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• 2011

울릉도에서 산출되는 치밀한 회색부석, 회색부석, 갈색 및 검은색부석의 기질에 대한 광물 암석학적 특성을 연구하기 위하여 X-선 회절분석, FT-IR, 열분석, XRF, SEM 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 울릉도 부석의 기질은 전반적으로 비정질이며 미량의 새니딘과 아노르도클레이스의 결정구조적 특성을 보였다. FT-IR 흡수스펙트럼에서 흡착수분을 지시하는 O-H 피크가 관찰되었으나 열분석에서 나타나지 않는 것으로 보아 수분 함량은 미미한 수준인 것으로 판단된다. 이러한 낮은 수분 함량은 기질이 넓은 비표면적을 가지며 형성 이후 상당한 시간이 지났음에도 불구하고 수화변질 정도를 매우 낮게 만든 것으로 생각된다. SEM 이미지상에서 기질의 기공은 $2\sim2000{\mu}m$ 크기를 가지며 구형, 타원형, 실타래형 및 각상의 형태학적 특성을 보인다. 또한, 기공들은 융합하고 성장하면서 변형되는 연성특성을 보여준다. 다양한 크기와 형태를 보이는 기공의 특성은 마그마의 급격한 압력감소와 빠른 냉각에 기인하며 형성과정에서 마그마가 상당한 연성을 유지하였음을 시사한다. 초기에 형성된 치밀한 회색부석은 기공의 성장이 제한되고 구형 기공의 결핍과 각상의 매우 작은 기공($15{\mu}m$ 이하)을 포함하는 것으로 보아 수화프리니언 분출에 근접하였음을 시사한다. 기질표변에서 관찰되는 비정질 알루미나 규산염 덩어리인 극미립질 입자는 알칼리계열의 포놀라이트질 마그마가 급격히 상승하는 과정에서 미립자화된 마그마가 기질표면에 부착된 것으로 판단되며 부분적으로 결정화된 알칼리 장석입자와 공존할 가능성이 높은 것으로 추정된다.