In ready-mixed mortar, an appropriate water-retaining and thickening material is usually added, but the water-retaining and thickening material has a stronger water requirement, thus increasing the unit water consumption, also affecting the mechanical properties and durability of mortar, so an appropriate amount of water-reducing agent should be used for the dispersion of cement slurry system. There is a wide variety of water-reducing agents. Theoretically, lignin, naphthalene sulfonate, melamine sulphamate, aliphatic and polycarboxylate water-reducing agents can be used as the dispersing agents in the cement slurry system. But these water-reducing agents differ greatly in their own dispersing, plasticizing and enhancing effects, but also have certain adaptability with cement, fly ash and slag powder used. More importantly, ready-mixed mortar is a multi-component mixture with significant differences in the proportions of each component, especially in the presence of thickening and water-retaining agents, greatly affecting the plasticizing and dispersing effects of water-reducing agents. When the thickening or water-retaining agent of a certain component exists in the aqueous solution, some types of water-reducing agents cannot play its due plasticizing effect, and sometimes even make the fluidity of mortar worse.
Therefore, in the production of high fluidity mortar and selection of water-reducing agents, a lot of tests must be passed to select the most appropriate water-reducing agent and determine the optimal dosage.
ABOUT CEMOTECH
→ Suzhou Cemo New Material Technology Co.,Ltd is a high-tech enterprise specialized in construction additives.
→ Estabilished in 2011 and expanded production scale in 2015.
→ Our production capacity is 10,000 tons of redispersible polymer powder, 5000 tons of polycarboxylic acid superplasticizer, 3000 tons of melamine superplasticizer, 2000 tons of defoamer, gypsum retarder, hydrophobic agent and other additives.