The optimization of a new type of cement-water glass slurry plugging
material based on response surface methodology
Abstract
Among the many adverse geological disasters, the surge water disaster in
karst area causes the greatest damage to underground engineering
construction, so there is an urgent need to carry out relevant research
on the management of surge water disaster in karst pipeline. However,
the grouting material in the blocking process of karst surge water
disaster often has the problems of low retention and low blocking
efficiency. In order to improve the efficiency of dynamic groundwater
plugging in karst area, a new type of cement-water glass slurry was
developed by taking ordinary silicate cement as the base material and
adding water glass to get cement-water glass slurry, and then using
polyacrylamide, Fe 3O 4 magnetic powder,
xanthan gum and guar gum as the additives. The response surface
regression model was constructed by Design-Expert software to analyse
the effects of the four admixtures, namely, polyacrylamide, Fe
3O 4 magnetic powder, xanthan gum and
guar gum, on the setting time, retention rate and compressive strength
of the new type of cement-water glass slurry, and combined with the
craving function to obtain the optimal proportioning of the new type of
cement-water glass slurry. The results show that: the interaction of
each two admixtures has a significant effect on the setting time of the
slurry; while xanthan gum and Fe 3O 4
magnetic powder have a significant effect on the retention rate of the
slurry as a single factor; the effect of single factor on the
compressive strength of the slurry is more significant, and the
polyacrylamide admixture has the greatest effect.The model predicts the
optimal ratios: 0.6% polyacrylamide, 0.7% of xanthan gum, 0.4% of
guar gum, and 29.96% of Fe 3O 4 powder,
which can be used as a reference for the multi-objective optimisation of
the mixing ratio of the new type of cement-water glass slurry.