The invention discloses a method for preparing light ceramsites by subway rail residue soil. The method includes the steps: drily
grinding the subway rail residue soil by a ball grinder, then sieving the dry grinded residue soil by a
sieve with100 meshes, uniformly mixing the sieved residue soil and
coal ash according to a weight percentage, and preparing a mixed
slurry according to water-
solid ratio; performing
granulation for the mixed
slurry by a granulator to form balls, selecting the balls with grain diameters of 15-25mm and 10-15mm, and placing the selected balls into a constant temperature
air blast drying oven with the temperature of 105 DEG C to dry by constant temperature for 4 hours or more than; tiling the dried balls on a
ceramic fiber board, placing the tiled balls in a
silicon-
molybdenum box-type resistance furnace, increasing the temperature to 500 DEG C from the indoor temperature by the heating speed of 8-10 DEG C per minute, preheating for 20 minutes, then increasing the temperature to 1160-1250 DEG C by the heating speed of 8-10 DEG C per minute,
roasting for 15 minutes, placing roasted ceramsites in a ventilated kitchen to naturally cool to the indoor temperature, and sieving the roasted ceramsites to obtain the light ceramsites. The weight percentage of the residue soil and the
coal ash is 50%-85%:15%-50%, and the water-
solid ratio is 15%-30%. The prepared ceramsites meet standard requirements of artificial lightweight aggregates in GB / T17431.1-2010 and GB / T17431.2-2010 and has the excellent advantages of high strength, multiple hole, high
temperature resistance and the like and can serve as high-efficiency support agents for
precast concrete components and
thermal insulation materials of walls.