The invention discloses a baking-free
brick prepared from
red mud.
Bayer process red mud is high in alkali content, and the problem of
efflorescence can be easily caused during the production of a
building material. A
geopolymer synthesis technology is used for converting alkali in the
red mud into an activator in an activation way, so that problems caused by the alkali during the utilization of the red mud are solved. The baking-free
brick is mainly prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 3 to 8 parts of water glass, 15 to 20 parts of active initiator, 70 to 80 parts of red mud and 0.5 to 1 part of micro
silicon powder. The baking-free
brick is prepared by the following steps of sequentially adding the red mud, the active initiator, the water glass and the micro
silicon powder into a forced mixer, performing
extrusion forming by using a brick making
machine after uniform mixing, standing a brick blank for 1 to 2 hours under natural conditions to endow certain
hardness to the brick blank, feeding the brick blank to an
autoclave, and performing autoclaved curing for 2 to 4 hours under pressure of 0.8 to 1.2MPa to obtain a finished product. The baking-free brick prepared from red mud is low in cost, stable in product performance, strong in
compressive strength and high in freezing and thawing cycle resistance, a production process is simple, the production site is small, and
efflorescence after building is avoided.