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What are the reasons why fine grained of alkali igneous rocks can not be used in cement

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Fine grained of alkali igneous rocks cannot be used in cement because of the volume expansion caused by the Alkali-silica reaction, fine-grained igneous rocks cannot be used as aggregates in cement.

<h3>What does fine grained mean in an igneous rock?</h3>

Extrusive igneous rocks have a fine-grained or aphanitic texture, with grains that are too small to see without a magnifying glass. The fine-grained texture suggests that the rapidly cooling lava did not have enough time to form large crystals. A petrographic microscope can be used to examine these tiny crystals.

The texture of an igneous rock (fine-grained vs coarse-grained) is determined by the rate at which the melt cools: slow cooling produces large crystals, while fast cooling produces small crystals.

The chemical reaction that occurs in both alkali cations and hydroxyl ions in the pore solution of hydrated cement paste and certain reactive silica phases present in concrete aggregates is known as the alkali-silica reaction (ASR).

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a) $L = 220\,m$ , b) $U_{o} \approx 0.63\,\frac{kW}{m^{2}\cdot ^{\textdegree}C}$

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a) The counterflow heat exchanger is presented in the attachment. Given that cold water is an uncompressible fluid, specific heat does not vary significantly with changes on temperature. Let assume that cold water has the following specific heat:

$c_{p,c} = 4.186\,\frac{kJ}{kg\cdot ^{\textdegree}C}$

The effectiveness of the counterflow heat exchanger as a function of the capacity ratio and NTU is:

$\epsilon = \frac{1-e^{-NTU\cdot(1-c)}}{1-c\cdot e^{-NTU\cdot (1-c)}}$

The capacity ratio is:

$c = \frac{C_{min}}{C_{max}}$

$c = \frac{(1\,\frac{kg}{s} )\cdot(4.186\,\frac{kW}{kg^{\textdegree}C} )}{(1.8\,\frac{kg}{s} )\cdot(4.30\,\frac{kW}{kg^{\textdegree}C} )}$

$c = 0.541$

Heat exchangers with NTU greater than 3 have enormous heat transfer surfaces and are not justified economically. Let consider that $NTU = 2.5$ . The efectiveness of the heat exchanger is:

$\epsilon = \frac{1-e^{-(2.5)\cdot(1-0.541)}}{1-(2.5)\cdot e^{-(2.5)\cdot (1-0.541)}}$

$\epsilon \approx 0.824$

The real heat transfer rate is:

$\dot Q = \epsilon \cdot \dot Q_{max}$

$\dot Q = \epsilon \cdot C_{min}\cdot (T_{h,in}-T_{c,in})$

$\dot Q = (0.824)\cdot (4.186\,\frac{kW}{^{\textdegree}C} )\cdot (160^{\textdegree}C-18^{\textdegree}C)$

$\dot Q = 489.795\,kW$

The exit temperature of the hot fluid is:

$\dot Q = \dot m_{h}\cdot c_{p,h}\cdot (T_{h,in}-T_{h,out})$

$T_{h,out} = T_{h,in} - \frac{\dot Q}{\dot m_{h}\cdot c_{p,h}}$

$T_{h,out} = 160^{\textdegree}C + \frac{489.795\,kW}{(7.74\,\frac{kW}{^{\textdegree}C} )}$

$T_{h,out} = 96.719^{\textdegree}C$

The log mean temperature difference is determined herein:

$\Delta T_{lm} = \frac{(T_{h,in}-T_{c, out})-(T_{h,out}-T_{c,in})}{\ln\frac{T_{h,in}-T_{c, out}}{T_{h,out}-T_{c,in}} }$

$\Delta T_{lm} = \frac{(160^{\textdegree}C-78^{\textdegree}C)-(96.719^{\textdegree}C-18^{\textdegree}C)}{\ln\frac{160^{\textdegree}C-78^{\textdegree}C}{96.719^{\textdegree}C-18^{\textdegree}C} }$

$\Delta T_{lm} \approx 80.348^{\textdegree}C$

The heat transfer surface area is:

$A_{i} = \frac{\dot Q}{U_{i}\cdot \Delta T_{lm}}$

$A_{i} = \frac{489.795\,kW}{(0.63\,\frac{kW}{m^{2}\cdot ^{\textdegree}C} )\cdot(80.348^{\textdegree}C) }$

$A_{i} = 9.676\,m^{2}$

Length of a single pass counter flow heat exchanger is:

$L =\frac{A_{i}}{\pi\cdot D_{i}}$

$L = \frac{9.676\,m^{2}}{\pi\cdot (0.014\,m)}$

$L = 220\,m$

b) Given that tube wall is very thin, inner and outer heat transfer areas are similar and, consequently, the cold side heat transfer coefficient is approximately equal to the hot side heat transfer coefficient.

$U_{o} \approx 0.63\,\frac{kW}{m^{2}\cdot ^{\textdegree}C}$