Cast Basalt Floors

Cast basalt floors are a type of flooring system that is made from cast basalt tiles.

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Cast Basalt Floors

Cast basalt floors are a type of flooring system that is made from cast basalt tiles. Cast basalt is a naturally occurring volcanic rock that is melted and cast into tiles or other shapes. The resulting material is extremely hard and durable, making it ideal for use in high-wear industrial settings.

Cast basalt floors offer many benefits over other types of flooring systems, including excellent resistance to abrasion, impact, and chemical corrosion. They can be used in a variety of industrial applications, such as mining, power generation, and chemical processing, where heavy equipment and harsh operating conditions can quickly wear out traditional flooring materials.

Cast basalt floors are also non-slip and easy to clean, making them suitable for use in areas where safety and hygiene are a concern. They can be customized in a range of colors and textures to suit specific design needs, and their natural stone appearance can provide an attractive aesthetic to complement any interior design scheme.

In summary, cast basalt floors are a durable and long-lasting flooring option that is well-suited for use in industrial settings. Made from melted and cast basalt rock, they offer excellent resistance to wear and tear, chemical corrosion, and impact. They are also non-slip and easy to maintain, making them a versatile and safe choice for a range of applications.

In addition to the specific advantages of this material, the extraordinary look of a cast basalt floor will also appeal to you: Its blue, shimmering, and fiery surface gives every surface or room an attractive, innovative, and appealing look. Thanks to its properties, cast basalt can be installed everywhere, indoors as well as outdoors.

Cast basalt tiles are a durable, economical solution that is also visually very attractive – regardless of whether you choose smooth or anti-slip tiles. The latter is available in four surface designs with fine grooves on the bottom of the tiles. They are available in square or hexagonal shapes or designed as staircase steps.

The combination of the properties of basalt with functional elements such as formpieces or L-sections with rounded edges is important to ensure a perfect connection between the horizontal floor and the wall as well as easy care and maintenance. We offer such elements as skirting sections in various shapes and sizes.

We offer cast basalt tile lined elbows for coal bunkers and chutes. These cast basalt tiles are bedded as well as jointed in cement/special bonding agents like resins depending upon application. These tiles, mostly find application in automotive industry and are designed to provide long-lasting lining and enhancement to involved operational life cycle for both plant as well as equipment.

The main advantage of a cast basalt floor is clear

Sizes

We offer a large range of shapes and sizes – this catalogue contains many of our most popular types. Given minimum production quantities and enough lead-time, we will make special moulds to your dimensions and patterns. Call us for for assistance with custom designs.

Cast Basalt tiles are made in hard-metric sizes.

Appearance

Cast Basalt Tiles are naturally black with some tinges of bronze. The surface is not perfectly flat.

Cast Basalt Tile Characteristics

Is basalt good for flooring?

Basalt flooring is highly sought after for its durability and aesthetic appeal. Formed in a high-temperature volcanic environment, basalt tiles are long-lasting, difficult to corrode, and ageless. Hard and durable, they are ideal for high-traffic areas of the home.

Is basalt good for tile?

Basalt Tile & Flooring, Natural Stone Tile, Black Basalt Tile

Basalt flooring is highly sought after for its durability and aesthetic appeal. Formed in a high-temperature volcanic environment, basalt tiles are long-lasting, difficult to corrode, and ageless. Hard and durable, they are ideal for high-traffic areas of the home.

Cast Basalt Floors
Cast Basalt Floors
Cast Basalt Floors

What are the pros and cons of basalt tile?

Basalt is a very hard stone that is resistant to damage and heat. However, this same quality can also be seen as a disadvantage. Because basalt is so hard, it can be difficult to cut and shape.

What is basalt flooring?

Also known as lava stone, it's actually what happens when lava seeps above the Earth's surface and rapidly cools, creating a hard, solid rock. The resulting material is generally a dark gray to black color, and can range from smooth to textured depending on the conditions under which it was formed.

What is the basalt good for?

Basalt is used in construction (e.g. as building blocks or in the groundwork), making cobblestones (from columnar basalt) and in making statues. Heating and extruding basalt yields stone wool, which has potential to be an excellent thermal insulator.

Chemical substance ( weight %) of cast basalt

SiO2 Al2O2 Fe2O3 TiO2 CaO MgO K2O Na2O FeO P2O5
43.13-41.12 12.5-13.52 8.64-9.5 2.02-2.62 9.05-10.22 8.65-10.47 1.4-1.75 4.62-5.28 4.82-6.25 1.1-1.38

Comparision Chart

Comparison of Ceramic lines with few other materials under standard conditions :

Material Thickness(mm) Approx life ( Months )
Mild Steel 10 3-5
Cast Iron 20 6-8
Ni-Hard 20 12-14
Cast Basalt 30 20-25
Ceramic 10 35-40

Ceramic lined equipment and bends

Hard & Compact Smooth & Inner Withstands High-Abrasion & Corrosion In any of the process industries especially Sled and Cement corrosion and abrasion lead to significant downtime of the plant. Further, the useful life or the equipment itself may get impaired because of the high abrasive nature of the materials being used. Thus, ‘wear mechanism’ results in hut down, replacement, etc., which is costly, resulting in loss to tilt: tunic of millions of dollars.

Characteristics

Technical details:

Design aspects

The bend radius should be minimum 3 times of the nominal bore. At discharge end of each bend, cast basalt lined straight pipe of length 5 to 12 times the nominal bore must be used.

Design aspects

Application area of cast basalt products

Cast basalt can be used for the lining of pipework, chutes, bunkers, cyclones, and hoppers. It has become the global standard in areas such as ash slurry pipework, often used at fossil-fuel power stations. It is an all-round cost-effective and adaptable lining material that extends the life of equipment in pipe or tile form where affected by erosion.

Cast basalt is well-proven in a variety of industries as a cost-effective, long-lasting lining material used to extend the operating life of equipment manufactured or lined with lower-wearing materials such as steel, cast iron, rubber, and polyurethane.

Cast basalt lined steel pipe, as both a wear—resistant and corrosion—resistant materials, the transport properties of wear or corrosion of materials, after thirty years of practical verification, cast basalt lined steel pipe can be well done.

Cast basalt is also used in cement plants for making air separators, chain conveyor, silica hoppers, nozzles, coal hoppers, cement hoppers, cyclones, raw mill ducts, chutes, thick slurry lines, mixers, grate cooler housing, coal ventury etc.

Welding & Beveled end
  • Tailings pipeline
  • concentrate pipeline
  • pipeline of transporting ore
  • pipe of transporting ash and residue in electric power station
  • pipe for transporting coal—water
  • pipe of sending sand by wind power
  • The concentration of slurry chute
  • edge—milling machine
  • disk feeder
  • slurry chutes
Easy-Flexible joint connection
  • blast flush fines chute
  • blast furnace slag ditch
  • raw ore chute
  • funnels of autogenously mill
  • classification return mines chute
  • overflow launder
  • coke—conveying chute
  • saturator
  • acid separator
  • cyclone separator
Welding & Beveled end
  • sand mixed machine
  • punch mine ditch in mining industry
  • storage tank mine blast, coke funnel
  • all kinds of chutes, funnels, storage bin andso on.
  • load and unload material chute in fire—resistant industry
  • centrifugal concentrator punch mine launder
Steel-lined composite cast basalt chute

Steel-lined composite cast basalt chute

Cast basalt composite pipes used for years

Cast basalt composite pipes used for years

Cast basalt liners

Cast basalt liners

What is Cast basalt

Cast basalt is a mineral of exceptionally high abrasion resistance, unlimted resistance to moisture, high compressive strength and resistance to virtually all acids and alkalis and is completely corrosion free.

Cast basalt is produced by melting selected natural basalt broken into sizes of 20-50 mm in shaft furnaces at tempreatures around 1,300C, following by casting at which the metled basalt forms uniforms pherolithic crystals hence producing its typical physical propertics, in particular its exceptional hardness and wear-resitance.

Cast basalt reaches a value of hardness of 8( min ) on the Moh's hardness scale. for comparision : the highest value10is only attained by dimonds. by virtue of these properties,the silicate cast basalt provides outstanding protection against abrasion and scrubbing.

however, it is marked by asertain sensitivity ti impacts.Under Normal services conditions, cast basalt withstands tempratures up to approx.+ 350C or-40C. However Cast basalt sholud not be subjected ti temprature shocks.

Sizes : Cast basalt produces are manufactured as tiles, from pieces and segments. straight pipes are spun-cast, available for nominal bores of 32 to 600 mm with the wall thickness ranging from 20 to 30mm and a standard lenght of 500mm.samller nominal bores of straight pipes, pipe segment for radill of 40 to 3,000mm of vatrious angles, as well as special formpiece linings are pre dominately sand-cast. The standard wall-thickness is 20mm. depending on the respective quantity, steel moulds can also be used, the wall thickness in those cases usually being 30 to 40mm.

Cast basalt lined pipe can be mainly used as abrasive material and ash handling system like chute slip trough, funnel, silos, a variety dust catcher, revolving-flow machine, various scraper transport planes, all the feeder liner. Laying the ground all types of chemical plants, it can be for lining picking tank or storage of corrosive substance of the storage room.

According to customer requirements along with cast basalt production technology and we can offer various specifications and various shape to meet client's need.

Friction Resistance : As more material is passed over Cast Basalt it gets polished up thereby reducing friction further. Cast Basalt improves in service after getting polished. Wetting also improves its performance in practical applications.

Impact Resistance : Direct Impact Resistance at 90 degree is low like all other ceramics, but it can be increased with proper installation by reducing the angle of impact. Cast Basalt is the best wherever sliding abrasion exists. Moreover, external impact strength of composite basalt pipe (enclosed in M.S. Shell) is always more than that of bare Ni-hard Pipe.

Chemical Resistance : Cast Basalt is almost absolutely acid/alkali resistant (except Hydrofluoric Acid) and hence corrosion resistant.

Weight and Sizes : Basalt Tiles are available in regular shape square of 200 x 200 x 30 mm thick, weighing approx. 90 kg/sq m; whereas bends and pipes are lined using Basalt Cylinders of various standard sizes from 50NB upto 500NB.

Temperature : Cast Basalt withstands temperature up to 4500 oC.

Design Aspects

Cast Basalt Wear Resistant Material

Refining basalt to a finely crystallised glass ceramic, SunnySteel’s cast basalt wear resistant material provides an extremely durable, long-lasting lining for static plants bearing large volumes of abrasive and/or corrosive matter.

Supplied as both a pipe and tile lining solution, cast basalt is ideally suited for wet material handling applications with lower impacts, such as coal chutes, ash sluiceways, ash pipelines at power stations and hydraulic granulated slag or sand conveying. Basalt delivers high resistance to wear corrosion and temperatures up to approximately 400 °C.


Cast basalt produce process

Cast basalt process

Processing technology and application of cast basalt lined pipe

Cast basalt pipe is a kind of silicate crystalline material that has been produced and processed. It uses natural rock (basalt, diabase and other basic rocks) or some industrial waste slag as the main raw material. After melting, pouring, crystallization and annealing and other processes. Cast stone has excellent wear resistance and corrosion resistance. Cast stone products mainly include cast stone slabs, cast stone pipes, cast basalt lined pipes, jacketed cast stone pipes, cast stone wear-resistant expansion joints, cast stone wear-resistant valves, cast stone powder and various wear-resistant and resistant cast stone powders as raw materials. Putty slime, etc. Has been widely used in electric power, mining, coal, metallurgy, chemical, construction and other industrial sectors severely worn and corroded parts and equipment.​​

the cast basalt lined pipe is composed of the inner lined cast stone pipe, the outer steel pipe and the cement mortar filling layer between the two. It integrates the wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the cast stone pipe, the toughness of the steel pipe and the consolidation of the cement mortar. In one. It improves the adaptability of the Product to various complex working conditions. At the same time, the use of cement mortar as a filler can make the inner surface of the steel pipe in an alkaline medium, and the surface of the steel pipe will produce a purification film, which can prevent corrosion. It is resistant to wear, corrosion, and high pressure, and is safe and convenient to transport.

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Cast basalt lined pipes are divided into straight pipes, curved pipes, tee (cross) pipes, reducing pipes, etc.​​

The diameter series of the cast stone composite elbow is the same as that of the cast stone composite straight tube, and its turning radius and center angle are made according to user requirements.​​

Non-standard specifications of cast basalt lined pipes can be made according to customer’s technical requirements. For large-diameter cast basalt lined pipes with a nominal diameter of more than 800mm, different cements are usually used to paste the cast stone plates on the inner wall of the well-processed steel pipes according to the operating conditions of the pipe fittings to form an integrated cast basalt lined pipe. Its advantages are good wear resistance, wide application range, small size limitation of pipe fittings, and low cost of pipe fittings.


Cast basalt Process

Natural gas is used for melting basalt stone in melting furnace. Natural gas is currently very clean and environmentally friendly fuel. No any pollution. To the customer requirements choose environmental protection material that is a good choice.

The product processed from cast basalt is a new type of silicate crystalline material. Using natural rock (basic database, shale, etc.) or industrial waste as the main raw material components, smelting, casting, heat treatment and other processes are regularly arranged, crystalline, hard, and fine-textured metal industrial materials. Casting basalt has an excellent high abrasion and high resistance. Abrasiveness. Corrosion resistance.

Wear-Resistant Material Preparation

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Friction Resistance – As more material is passed over Cast Basalt it gets polished up thereby reducing friction further. Cast Basalt improves in service after getting polished. Wetting also improves its performance in practical applications.

Impact Resistance – Direct Impact Resistance at 90 degree is low like all other ceramics, but it can be increased with proper installation by reducing the angle of impact. Cast Basalt is the best wherever sliding abrasion exists. Moreover, external impact strength of composite basalt pipe (enclosed in M.S. Shell) is always more than that of bare Ni-hard Pipe.

Cast basalt pipe
Cast basalt cylinders

Chemical Resistance Cast Basalt is almost absolutely acid/alkali resistant (except Hydrofluoric Acid) and hence corrosion resistant.
Weight and Sizes - Basalt Tiles are available in regular shape square of 200 x 200 x 30 mm thick, weighing approx. 90 kg/sq m; whereas bends and pipes are lined using Basalt

  • Cylinders of various standard sizes from 50NB upto 500NB.
  • Temperature - Cast Basalt withstands temperature up to 450 o C
  • Life - Life of basalt-lined pipe is estimated to be 7 to 10 times that of Cast Iron, and 3 to 4 times that of Ni-hard Steel.

【H】 Ceramic lined pipe

Ceramic lined pipe is made through self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) technique.

【H】 Cast basalt lined steel pipe

Cast basalt lined steel pipe is composed by lined with cast basalt pipe, outside steel pipe and cement mortar filling between the two layers.

【H】 Ceramic Tile Lined Pipes

Ceramic tile lined pipes have very uniform coating of specially formulated ceramic material that is affixed to the inner of the pipe.

【H】 Rare earth alloy wear-resistant pipe

The material of the rare earth alloy wear-resistant pipe is ZG40CrMnMoNiSiRe, which is also the grade of rare earth alloy steel.

【H】 Tubes Erosion Shields

Tubes Erosion Shields are used to protect boiler tubing from the highly erosive effects of high temperatures and pressures thereby greatly extending tube life.

【H】 ASTM A213 T91 Alloy Tube

The ASTM A213 T91 seamless tubes are primarily used for boiler, superheater, and heat-exchanger.

Ni-Hard Wearback Pipes Ni-Hard Wearback Pipes
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