Geopolymers: what are geopolymers made of?

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  • čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
  • In this video, Cole Sonafrank, assistance director of research ay CCHRC, explains basic ingredients for geopolymer cements and the importance of using locally available materials in Alaska.
    Geopolymer cements use waste materials as a binder and are stronger and more sustainable than conventional Portland cements. CCHRC has studied more than 600 recipes of geopolymers made with use fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, from local power plants.

Komentáře • 104

  • @ami7mina
    @ami7mina Před rokem +6

    I like this man's energy. so chill.

    • @nahompodcast
      @nahompodcast Před měsícem

      slow and very thoughtfull

    • @MDNQ-ud1ty
      @MDNQ-ud1ty Před 24 dny

      You mean sane. Most humans were like these several decades ago before the financial terrorists destroyed humanity and turned almost everyone insane because they wanted company.

  • @cherylm2C6671
    @cherylm2C6671 Před 2 lety +4

    Thank you for posting this video. Years ago, I made something like this by accident, that I would now very much like to recreate.

    • @binhhoa8112
      @binhhoa8112 Před 8 měsíci

      Muốn biết sản phẩm gồm gì

    • @cherylm2C6671
      @cherylm2C6671 Před měsícem

      @@binhhoa8112 pumice, fly ash, clay?

  • @secretsaltshake
    @secretsaltshake Před 8 lety +10

    excellent video, thank you for spending time on it !
    very inspiring, hope this will catch on soon.

  • @Bebeborgeous
    @Bebeborgeous Před 2 měsíci +3

    This is how the blocks were MADE for the pyramids. They weren't hauled or moved or quarried. They were made with geopolymers and poured where they exactly are

  • @ronenram
    @ronenram Před 11 měsíci +1

    I am honored to be the 1k 👍 on this video
    what a wonderfull material

  • @ThomasAndersonbsf
    @ThomasAndersonbsf Před rokem +3

    something that would be interesting is using a carbon dioxide releasing agent in the geopolymer and a laser system to fuse layer by layer the clay substances so it will puff up like the graphene foam that forms from doing this with Kapton tape, but being left with a solid block of insulative tough clay structure, instead almost like an intumescent clay material, something else I guess I need to add to my list of ongoing concepts, as I am betting it coupled with the passive thermal diode effect could enable cooling or heating passively anywhere while being able to retain this heat or cooled area's effect from that insulation property of a foamed fired clay.

  • @franksigwart9777
    @franksigwart9777 Před 2 lety +1

    very well presented.

  • @Fordeyyyyy
    @Fordeyyyyy Před 7 lety +4

    Highly informative, thank you! I'm writing my minor thesis on a topic involving geopolymer composites and I have no idea about anything yet.

    • @Advanced_Materials_Publishing
      @Advanced_Materials_Publishing Před 2 lety +3

      Cool. How did it age? I made my bachelor and masters thesis about geopolymers and, yes, there is so little practical and accurate information out there.

    • @Fordeyyyyy
      @Fordeyyyyy Před 2 lety +2

      @@Advanced_Materials_Publishing I got a credit LOL. I was honestly happy about that because that was a very stressful time in my life. Turns out flyash-based, polyethylene fibre-reinforced geopolymer composites don’t perform well as structural members after being exposed to elevated temperatures (200 - 800 degC).

    • @Advanced_Materials_Publishing
      @Advanced_Materials_Publishing Před 2 lety +3

      You got a credit like a credit point? Mission achieved, I'd say 😄

    • @freedomtowander
      @freedomtowander Před 7 měsíci

      It’s a beautiful technology that I think is older than we realize! Have fun on your thesis, but remember that more than likely no one is going to read it. But if you like what you learn and are proud of your work you will do great!

  • @rhs9079
    @rhs9079 Před 6 lety +8

    Nice video, and thank you for putting this out there. But according to the Geopolymer institute, alkali based products are not geopolymers.... However they are still a good building material that should be explored....

  • @mohammadsaif3372
    @mohammadsaif3372 Před 5 měsíci +2

    thank you sir❤

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey Před 2 lety +1

    Interesting idea that, the pyramids being refashioned mine tailings and waste to stable useful form.

  • @petermuller4684
    @petermuller4684 Před 9 měsíci +2

    so nice

  • @aussieandrew
    @aussieandrew Před 7 měsíci +1

    I wonder which geopolymers were used to build the pyramids?

  • @vv-ky4bi
    @vv-ky4bi Před 6 lety +3

    Sir can i develop brake pads using this geopolymer. May i know its properties

  • @richard-cf8ce
    @richard-cf8ce Před rokem +1

    I've been doing concrete in Fairbanks for long time so is my buddy

  • @seetheforest
    @seetheforest Před 10 měsíci +2

    Whats available locally and what works...

  • @crasch4
    @crasch4 Před 10 lety +15

    Very informative, thank you! Much better than the useless videos put out by the Geopolymer Institute.

  • @unrealone1
    @unrealone1 Před 3 lety +1

    Great video, can we have an update?

  • @pinkproportion4950
    @pinkproportion4950 Před 2 lety +1

    Hey this is fascinating- i want to cast some sculptures out of geopoylmers in Brooklyn. What would you suggest using? Thinking super cheap and hopefully reuse biproducts like you did. Thanks!

    • @mytrAKZ
      @mytrAKZ Před rokem +2

      No way, I'm doing the same in London. Just ordered the last of the ingredients. Did you have any success?

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 Před rokem

      Status updates? I'm hoping to do the same in New Jersey...thanks!!!

  • @coeniebre
    @coeniebre Před 5 lety +2

    No mention of sodium Silicate ?

  • @CUBETechie
    @CUBETechie Před 3 lety +3

    What do you think about using Dessert sand and use it for geo polymer? Because it is an material which is in huge amount.

    • @undernetjack
      @undernetjack Před 2 lety +3

      The blown sand would be surface smooth, it would not be good. You need sharp sand.

    • @CUBETechie
      @CUBETechie Před 2 lety +1

      @@undernetjack what if you Mix it with plastic?

    • @undernetjack
      @undernetjack Před 2 lety +3

      @@CUBETechie There are videos showing that exact process on youtube, for making tiles and roofing shingles etc.

    • @CUBETechie
      @CUBETechie Před 2 lety

      @@undernetjack a title or link would be amazing

    • @nc3826
      @nc3826 Před rokem +1

      Development and Optimization of Geopolymers Made ... - MDP by A El-Mir · 2022 · Cited by 9 - Desert dune sand has been used as an essential material in the construction industry.....

  • @TROONTRON
    @TROONTRON Před 8 lety +2

    Thank you for the video! Do you think geopolymers could be used in environments with huge pressure and/or high temperature? E.g drilling for oil and making tunnels for roads?

    • @aaronstately
      @aaronstately Před 8 lety +3

      +BucketOf Hurt Portland cement used in concrete performs better when blended with these co-polymers. Mixing portland cement with a ratio of Fly ash usually results in a concrete with a higher compressive stength.
      There are others like Silica fume which is mixed in for water proof and high acid areas like under the sea etc.

    • @TROONTRON
      @TROONTRON Před 8 lety +1

      Aaron James Thank you very much!

    • @aaronstately
      @aaronstately Před 4 lety

      @Renato unREAL and thats why i mentioned silica fume as well.. different applications.

  • @BruceFlachsbart
    @BruceFlachsbart Před 11 lety +4

    How would you "foam" the geopolymer?

    • @lightweightconcrete
      @lightweightconcrete Před 6 lety +2

      It is easy, as geopolymer paste which is basically flyash added with sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide, this paste has a density of 2,000 kg/m3 and it is above 60mpa in compressive strength, so you add in foam to expand it or reduce the density, ( but not with stone added as the stone aggregate tents to sink to bottom when foam is added ) if you need a foam generator and foaming agent, contact me please. my name is Alex ( www.lcm.my )

    • @tf1639
      @tf1639 Před 3 lety

      @@lightweightconcrete this is awesome ... I have a foam generator and need to try this. Where should I get the materials!???

    • @lightweightconcrete
      @lightweightconcrete Před 3 lety +1

      @@tf1639 USD 3.5 per liter, minimum order 25 liters, but problem is chipping may take a long time,

    • @lightweightconcrete
      @lightweightconcrete Před 3 lety +1

      a liter is to be added with 30 parts water known as Premix Solutiion and expand 10 timew or shoots into or become 10 liter foams.

    • @tf1639
      @tf1639 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lightweightconcrete hello. I'm confident that I have an ideal foaming agent. I just want to try geopolymer instead of concrete. I don't know how to get the geopolymer raw materials

  • @Jagannathdas.civil123

    sir is the production of geopolymer concrete is cost effective than a conventional cooncrete

    • @nc3826
      @nc3826 Před rokem

      too complex to be explained in a CZcams short...
      say hi to mr google for me...

  • @Jibe111111111
    @Jibe111111111 Před 8 lety +1

    What is the product that is mentioned at 02:01 ? Flour what??

    • @aaronstately
      @aaronstately Před 8 lety +5

      +Contrastarian Contrastarian Quartz flour. essentially we find gold deposited in Quartz. The Quartz is crushed and processed to extract the Gold. Once complete you are left with alot of Quartz Dust, or as he called it "tailings" aka Quartz flour. I think it takes 4 tonnes of quartz to extract 1 kilo of Gold or some crazy ratio, so you can imagine there is alot of quartz flour around.

    • @GriffenNaif
      @GriffenNaif Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@aaronstately like a marble dust used to waterproof a lime wash.
      1 Fat Lime
      2.5 Sand
      .5 Ash / suki indian specific type burned terra cotta/ Burned brick/ ceramic dust
      {me: Reduce for tint?}

  • @jojolafrite90
    @jojolafrite90 Před 3 lety +2

    Can limestone be made into a molten paste? and then get back into stone?
    SOme guy told me geopolymers were a scam. All that because of a video that has a theory about the pyramids being made out of geopolymers.

  • @buildyear86
    @buildyear86 Před 2 lety

    "release 80% less co2 during production than Portland cement". Can you back this up with some document or report or something?

  • @sentientarc
    @sentientarc Před 6 lety +6

    Fly Ash usually contains heavy metals including lead, chromium and mercury. It also is often laced with arsenic.
    Oil and Coal are best used very sparingly. Want to learn about strength? Examine a bird skeleton (an already dead one please) a spider web, etc.
    The Carbon Energy companies LOVE to be paid every month or more often (It's why they hate solar and wind). Oil and Coal LOVE their taxpayer funded subsidies and they LOVE when someone makes a video to help them get rid of their toxic waste.

    • @ThomasAndersonbsf
      @ThomasAndersonbsf Před 3 lety +7

      the love wind and solar when their carbon energy is being sold to the companies to manufacture those solar and wind units, since it takes a TON of energy to make virtually all solar tech just to refine the materials, and the only reason it is some what cheap now is due to processor and chip waste silicon that gets reused to make solar cells so most of the expense is done and already paid for by computer enthusiasts LOL. Solar has a very dirty secret, that it may be possible to use tech like we use for geopolymers and silica gels manufacture to make them with far less energy, (and expand our tech options beyond just pure silicon embedded with boron and coated in phosphorus, I mean there are tons more electron donor elements and proton donors as well, to experiment with, so while those two (boron and phosphorus) work well in pure silicon, what would work well in sapphire? (aluminum oxide crystal) that can be made with sodium hydroxide and aluminum to make sodium aluminate so it can be dissolved and mixed with an acid to extract that sodium leaving gelled aluminum oxide, which how it forms is all down to how we dry that water out of the aluminum oxide gel (freeze dry and get sapphire based aerogel better thermal stability at high temps like for glass kilns to retain heat better and save tons of carbon energy when making glass the old way XD) or slow dry maybe even add something to ultra slow it and have stronger pull on the aluminum and oxygen while evaporating out to make nice solid uniform sapphire crystal, say in the shape of a window, or a flask or plasma toroid XD ) so many possibilities springing out of uncovering and exploiting these loop holes in physics XD

    • @BittyVids
      @BittyVids Před 2 lety +1

      @@ThomasAndersonbsf it’s a year layer, and still nobody has read that rambling wall of text.

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 Před rokem

      @@ThomasAndersonbsf - Right up my alley! Material Sciences are the elephant in the room. Yet, most of the media's "look over here" is toward "energy"...

    • @ThomasAndersonbsf
      @ThomasAndersonbsf Před rokem +1

      @@samuelluria4744 yep replicator tech is all about knowing how to manipulate materials both to break it down and prep it as well as put it back together how we want too, and not so much about generic transfer of energy. or energy to matter like startrek heads want to believe.

    • @samuelluria4744
      @samuelluria4744 Před rokem

      @@ThomasAndersonbsf - Well said. Presumably, the public understanding of the expendable nature of _any_ form of energy, makes it easier to uphold profit margins. The dream of durability is kept far from their eyes, however, as it's hard to charge more for products which rarely wear out.

  • @aggabus
    @aggabus Před 4 lety

    Where is the flash going now?

  • @freedomtowander
    @freedomtowander Před 7 měsíci

    This is the technology of the future. Once humanity removes head from bottom, we will stop using metals and soon find even printed circuit boards made from geopolymers,

  • @fsvoorhies
    @fsvoorhies Před 5 lety +2

    not geopolymer, it uses activator

  • @ushemphurd
    @ushemphurd Před 3 lety +1

    Hempcrete + Geopolymer

  • @vanhelsing7204
    @vanhelsing7204 Před 6 lety

    sodium hydroxide or sodium oxide?

    • @ThomasAndersonbsf
      @ThomasAndersonbsf Před 3 lety

      dehydrated sodium hydroxide? is that something worth doing even if it can be done? (I know some stuff once it hydrates like copper sulfate, it can't just be driven off with heat, as it decomposes releasing sulfur oxides and copper oxide powders, so from what I have seen it takes some sort of strong dehydrating substance like zeolites that have to be pulled and dried in an oven then put back in dry and let it adsorb the water components leaving the anhydrous copper sulfate, and seems like sodium oxide would have one heck of a pull to hold onto hydrogen in its hydroxide state, Now I need to go look and see if that info is available, since otherwise I am going to be spending some time trying it out myself XD

  • @aggabus
    @aggabus Před 4 lety

    4480 ft sq x 3 1/4 ft

  • @Jonathan-mk1ju
    @Jonathan-mk1ju Před 2 lety

    Serious question….Can I use the ashes from my cremated dog to create a geopolymer material.

  • @adhesivocontrasste
    @adhesivocontrasste Před 11 lety

    Ing. buen dia, son y de Guadalajara, Jal. Mex. me gustaria una asesoria para hacer un buen adhesivo para pisos a base de un Geopolimero que me se facil fabricar....
    saludos

  • @romabavareca
    @romabavareca Před 10 lety

    h202

  • @bogdaniorgulescu1641
    @bogdaniorgulescu1641 Před rokem

    Yeah, touch the sodium hydroxide without gloves or a lab coat... smart

  • @michelg.rabbat2267
    @michelg.rabbat2267 Před 2 lety

    Michel G Rabbat/Egypt.-Amer./Florida...V detailed since middle ages...Need to confirm my hypothesis..It started in W.Savannah, now Sahara..in mountains drawings depict headdress similar to pharaohs........Amazig moved north..luo ancestors south..around Chad"sea"...eastwards into oases...finally Aw-ser &Awset(Isis) fought their brother Seth who moved south into Nubia, while Osiris built Abdju (w.Nile bank) and Thebes(e. Nile bank).Hor son of Isis pushed his uncle's tribeout ...ancestors of Nilotic Chollo (Shilluk)..they still use djed , dance around pillar, protected by wings etc.. Any research?

  • @cobra-emperor6starwars665

    Just primitive, the old megalithic structures are made from Iron Ore fused stone by way of induction heating, and your building materials only last you 50 to 100 up to 400 years well our advanced past building would last for thousands of years, as well you could always reheat and reshape the iron ore stone,

    • @undernetjack
      @undernetjack Před 2 lety +2

      Yes, but it takes months to achieve that strength. We don't have the time to use that process anymore. It's all , now, now, now, get it done yesterday, time is money...

    • @BigCroca
      @BigCroca Před 2 lety +1

      Induction heating was most definitely not used by ancient peoples

  • @aggabus
    @aggabus Před 4 lety

    200mt fairb an freight cost
    Equal to 20year coffee 40year cocao

  • @TheDave570
    @TheDave570 Před 6 lety +1

    They used geopolymers back thousands of years ago to build the monolythic structures we see today, so you haven't invented anything new!

    • @ThomasAndersonbsf
      @ThomasAndersonbsf Před 3 lety

      if no one gave them info to start with then it is called reinventing, like "no reason to reinvent the wheel, here is info on exactly how to make a wheel" if they don't have that "how to, then it is an invention, and discovery to modern people who did not have the information because it was lost, else we could say aliens somewhere in the vastness of the universe invented virtually everything because like the simpsons they have had far more time before we had a chance to even start, so of course ":simpsons already did it!" lol
      I think the more important statement is "ok now that we have this info where do we go from here," I am researching this stuff for both a chance to develop better tooth filling material, that anyone can make once I have a good recipe and plan laid out to put up online, and to make better materials for building a new place in a given location using resources local to the area, to both make it cheaper and better, as well as make it possible to blend in easily into the area, incase it needs to be hidden, considering how many people there has always been that just want to watch the world burn, or destroy something someone else has made. (and starlink and similar tech is coming that will give us the ability to have internet virtually anywhere in the world be it a hidden geopolymere home in the mountains, or a giant closed cell foam plastic island floating out in the ocean, made by collecting all that plastic pollution in the ocean and melting it into a slurry to be squirted out of a giant 3D printer nozzle on a 3D printer floating on pontoon style floats for its base, so cavities for halls and rooms can be printed right into that giant turtle shell looking plastic foam island LOL. (and turn natural resources found in the ocean into resources to sell when propelling near a coast to do trade there. )

  • @mudofdenmark7792
    @mudofdenmark7792 Před 5 lety

    All talk and not a single example.

    • @ThomasAndersonbsf
      @ThomasAndersonbsf Před 3 lety

      where are you looking that there are no examples? just wondering so I can avoid the location, if it still holds no actual usable and actionable information.

    • @nc3826
      @nc3826 Před rokem

      All science and no CZcams expert clickbait BS.

  • @zbyneknovak1972
    @zbyneknovak1972 Před 7 lety

    it's hard to understand this video, maybe because very bad english

    • @nc3826
      @nc3826 Před rokem

      Good luck with your very bad English

  • @liquidpixel2055
    @liquidpixel2055 Před rokem +1

    So Egyptians used mine tailings? Makes sense.