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The document provides an overview of lime as a building construction material, detailing its production process, types, and applications in civil engineering. It outlines the steps of quarrying, calcination, and hydration, as well as the chemical properties and classifications of lime. Different types of lime, including fat lime, hydraulic lime, and poor lime, are described along with their characteristics and uses in construction.

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The document provides an overview of lime as a building construction material, detailing its production process, types, and applications in civil engineering. It outlines the steps of quarrying, calcination, and hydration, as well as the chemical properties and classifications of lime. Different types of lime, including fat lime, hydraulic lime, and poor lime, are described along with their characteristics and uses in construction.

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lime (A building construction

material)

Presented by
Dhiraj Kumar
Assistant professor
Civil engineering
department
GEC, Siwan
Session outcome

 Understanding of chemical formulas, reactions, and


properties of ingredients in production of lime.
 Analysis of different type of lime and its use in civil
engineering work.
Introduction

 Lime is an important cemetery material used in engineering


construction.
 A cementing material may be defined as that material
which has the capacity of holding the structural unit
together with sufficient strength.
 Example lime, cement, portland cement, as well as other
synthetic material.
Production

Lime is natural cemetery material obtained from a ore limestone.


Step 1 Quarrying of limestone

Stone Quarrying is defined as the process of extraction of stones


from natural rock beds.
Step 2 Calcination

Calcination is the process in which the ore of the metal is heated to a


high temperature in the absence or limited supply of air or oxygen

Lime obtained from calcination of relatively pure limestone( purity


percentage 90- 95 % is referred as QUICK/CAUSTIC/LUMP LIME.
Step 3 Hydration

Disintegration of lime when its reacts with water is an


exothermic reaction known as slaking.
Lime cycle

Hydraulic lime used as fresh as possible because it has


very high relativity for CO2 and gets wasted
as PPT of caco3
Ingredients of limestone

1 clay
 It imparts hydraulicity to the lime to the lime and makes it
insoluble.
'hydraulicity' is the property of limes and cements to set and harden under
water
 it should be in range 2 to 30 %
 Its produce grey colour to lime.
2 soluble silica
 silicate of Ca Mg and Al in small quantity. it is responsible for
hydraulicity in lime
 Magnesium carbonate: carbonate of mg allows it to slake by
regarding its setting.
 Sulphate : it accelerates the setting process of lime by
regarding it slaking.
Classification of lime
Classification of Lime

quick lime / fat lime lime


Hydrauilc lime

Hydrated/
slacked/milk of
Class B Class c
lime Class A Class D
Semi Hydrauilc
Hydraulic Hydrauilc
Hydrauilc lime
lime lime /poor
lime /quick
Clay 21- lime
Clay 11- lime
30% Clay > 30
20 % Clay 5-
%
10%
Type of lime

1 fat lime
 Referred as pure/rich/high calcium lime e.g. Sea shell
 Its slakes vigorously and volume increases by 2 to 2.5
times.
 Obtained by calcination of lime having purity greater
than 95 % (sea shells)
 It possesses a perfect white colour and it's so called
white lime thus can be use as white painting of wall as
decorative purpose.
2 Hydraulic lime.
 Referred to as water lime as it's capable of setting in water.
Calcination of lime stone having purity 92 -70 %.
 It hardens faster than fat lime.
 Used for brick and stone masonry work.
 It obtained from kankar
3 Poor lime
 referred to as lean and impure.
 lime Calcination of lime stone having purity less than 70 % .It's
neither slakes nor harden Moddy white colour
 used for minor engineering work as bricks works
around the foundation
Thank you

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