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Effect of high temperature on physical properties of yellow sandstone

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High-temperature baked sandstone is widely distributed in the north of Shaanxi, China. The lithology of these rocks has a significant impact on the mining of underground resources such as coal. To understand changes in its physical properties after heat treatment, yellow sandstone was heated for two hour at a constant temperature of 25, 800, 1000, 1100 or 1250 °C. Data on the glossiness, hardness and colour brightness, and surface micrographs, were obtained to study the relationship between surface characteristics and temperature. The relationship between internal structural characteristics and temperature was studied using electrical properties and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The results showed that below 1100 °C, glossiness and porosity increased and conductivity, hardness and colour brightness decreased, mainly due to melting of the binder. Above 1100 °C, there was melting of clay minerals, quartz and feldspar particles, resulting in a sharp increase in the brightness and hardness of yellow sandstone, a sharp decrease in porosity, and glossiness and conductivity increase rarely. Combining these results with the surface micrographs, the whole thermal change mechanism could be summarised as follows: dehydration condensation of water-bearing minerals → melting of cement → melting of quartz and feldspar particles → pyro-metamorphism.

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Abbreviations

NMR :

Nuclear magnetic resonance

T2 :

Transverse relaxation time

T 2 B :

Volume relaxation time

T 2 :

Surface relaxation time

T 2 D :

Diffusion relaxation time

HL :

Leeb hardness symbol

A :

Starting point of T2

B :

First peak of T2

C :

Trough of T2

D :

Final peak of T2

E :

End point of T2

K :

Conductivity

\(\varphi\) :

Porosity

K NMR :

Permeability

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 41672279, 41972288).

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  1. College of Geology and Environment, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710054, China

    He Zhang & Qiang Sun

  2. Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Geological Support for Coal Green Exploitation, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710054, China

    He Zhang & Qiang Sun

  3. Geological Research Institute for Coal Green Mining, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710054, China

    Qiang Sun

  4. School of Resources and Geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, Jiangsu, China

    Jishi Geng

  5. College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710054, China

    Hailiang Jia

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Zhang, H., Sun, Q., Geng, J. et al. Effect of high temperature on physical properties of yellow sandstone. Heat Mass Transfer 57, 1981–1995 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-021-03088-9

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