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A cenosphere is a lightweight, inert, hollow sphere made largely of silica and alumina^[1] and filled with air or inert gas, typically produced as a byproduct of coal combustion at thermal power plants. The color of cenospheres varies from gray to almost white and their density is about {{convert|0.4|-|0.8|g/cm3|abbr=on}}, which gives them a great buoyancy. Cf. glass microspheres.

Cenospheres are hard and rigid, light, waterproof, innoxious{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}, and insulative. This makes them highly useful in a variety of products, notably fillers. Cenospheres are now used as fillers in cement to produce low-density concrete.^[2] Recently, some manufacturers have begun filling metals and polymers with cenospheres to make lightweight composite materials with higher strength than other types of foam materials.^[3] Such composite materials are called syntactic foam. Aluminum-based syntactic foams are finding applications in the automotive sector.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}

Etymology

The word cenosphere is derived from two Greek words, κενός (kenos: hollow, empty) and σφαίρα (sphaera: sphere), literally meaning "hollow sphere."^[5]

Production

The process of burning coal in thermal power plants produces fly ash containing ceramic particles made largely of alumina and silica. They are produced at temperatures of {{convert|1500 to 1750|C|F}} through complicated chemical and physical transformation. Their chemical composition and structure varies considerably depending on the composition of coal that generated them.

The ceramic particles in fly ash have three types of structures. The first type of particles are solid and are called precipitator. The second type of particles are hollow and are called cenospheres. The third type of particles are called plerospheres, which are hollow particles of large diameter filled with smaller size precipitator and cenospheres.

Fuel or oil cenospheres

The definition of cenosphere has changed over the last 30 years. Up until the 1990s it was limited to a largely carbonaceous sphere caused by the oxygen-deficient combustion of a liquid fuel droplet that was cooled below {{convert|200|C|F}} before it was consumed. These fuel cenospheres indicated a combustion source using injected droplets of fuel or the open burning of heavy liquid fuels such as asphalt or a thermoplastic material that were bubbling as they burned; the bursting of the bubbles created airborne droplets of fuel.^[6]^[7] This is still a common definition used in environmental microscopy to differentiate between the inefficient combustion of liquid fuels and the high temperature fly ash resulting from the efficient combustion of fuels with inorganic contaminants. Fuel cenospheres are always black.^[8]

The refractory cenosphere as defined above is synonymous with microballoons or glass microspheres and excludes the traditional fuel cenospheres definition.^[9] The use of the term cenosphere in place of microballoons is widespread, and it has become an additional definition.

Applications

See also

References

1. ^H. S. Kim and M. Islam, "Syntactic foams as building materials consisting of inorganic hollow microspheres and starch binder", Chapter 1 in "Building Materials: Properties and Performance and Applications", Edited by Donald N. Cornejo and Jason L. Haro, Nova publishers, pp.1-56, 2009
2. ^{{cite journal|last1=Ranjbar|first1=Navid|last2=Kuenzel|first2=Carsten|title=Cenospheres: A review|journal=Fuel|date=1 November 2017|volume=207|doi=10.1016/j.fuel.2017.06.059|accessdate=13 September 2018}}
3. ^Pandey S, Venkat A.N.C, Mondal D.P, Majumdar J.D, Jha A.K, Rao H & Kumar H (2016) Effect of Cenosphere Size and Volume Fraction on the Microstructure and Deformation Behavior of Ti-Cenosphere Syntactic Foam Made Through Powder Metallurgy Route. Materials Performance and Characterization, 5(1), 266-288 (résumé).
4. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.camouflage.com.au/SPECTRO/Products.htm |title=About our Products: Silver Coated Cenospheres |publisher=Camouflage.com.au |date= |accessdate=29 May 2013 }}
5. ^{{Strong Greek|2756}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=McCrone |first=Walter C. |first2=Ronald G. |last2=Draftz |first3=John Gustav |last3=Delly |title=The Particle Atlas |publisher=Ann Arbor Science Publishers |page=349 |year=1967 }}
7. ^{{cite book|last=Hopke |first=Philip K. |title=Receptor Modeling in Environmental Chemistry |publisher=Wiley-Interscience |pages=43–44 |year=1985 }}
8. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.microlabgallery.com/CenosphereFile.aspx |title=Cenospheres from Diesel Fuel |publisher=Microlabgallery.com |date= |accessdate=29 May 2013 }}
9. ^{{cite book|editor-last=Brady |editor-first=George S. |editor-first2=Henry R. |editor-last2=Clauser |title=Materials Handbook |edition=Eleventh |publisher=McGraw-Hill |page=490 |year=1979 }}
10. ^M. M. Islam and H. S. Kim, “Pre-mould processing technique for syntactic foams: Generalised modelling, theory and experiment”, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol 211, pp.708-716, 2011.
11. ^M. M. Islam and H. S. Kim, “Sandwich composites made of syntactic foam core and paper skin: manufacturing and mechanical behavior”, Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, 2012, Vol 14(1), pp.111-127.