Expanded Perlite is an incredibly versatile and environmentally friendly inorganic lightweight insulation material. It has a myriad of excellent properties, including being lightweight, insulating, thermally insulating, and fireproof. Additionally, it has advantages like non combustion, high strength, low water absorption, good accessibility, and a long service life. This product is made from specially selected particle-size mineral sand, which is then expanded under electric furnace heating. Through precise control of temperature and raw material stagnation time, the surface of the product is melted, forming irregular spherical particles. The internal porous cavity structure has a glassy closed surface, smooth luster, and very stable physical and chemical properties. This product can be used as a lightweight aggregate in the new building materials industry, as a substitute for floating beads in the lightweight refractory material industry, and as a substitute for glass microspheres in the emulsification industry.
It has extremely broad application prospects and can be widely used in many fields such as industry, agriculture, building materials, chemical industry, smelting, light industry, and more. Due to the formation of certain particle strength through surface vitrification, the physical and chemical properties are very stable, with strong aging and weather resistance. Perlite has excellent insulation, fire prevention, and sound absorption properties, making it suitable for use as lightweight filling aggregates and insulation, fire prevention, sound absorption, and insulation materials in many fields. In the building materials industry, using vitrified microspheres as lightweight aggregates can improve the flowability and self-resistance of mortar, reduce material shrinkage, improve product comprehensive performance, and reduce comprehensive production costs.
Performance characteristics of Expanded Perlite (vitrified microspheres):
1. low heat conductivity, light weight(low density)
2. fire proof, temperature resistance
3. ageing resistance
4. low water absorption
5. stable property
6. environmental friendly
Technical Parameters of Expanded Perlite (vitrified microspheres):
Item | Item I | Item II | Item III |
Bulk Density /kg/m³ | <80 | <80~120 | > 120 |
Cylindrical Compress Strength/kPa | ≥50 | ≥150 | ≥200 |
Heat Conductivity/W/(m·K) | ≤0.043 | ≤0.048 | ≤0.070 |
Volatile Water Absorption/% | ≤45 | ||
Volume Floating Rate/% | ≥80 | ||
Surface Vitrification Closure Rate/% | ≥80 |
Expanded Perlite Appliction:
● Suitable for insulation of internal and external walls of reinforced concrete, aerated concrete blocks, porous bricks, sand bricks, etc.
● Roof insulation layer.
● Energy saving renovation of old buildings.
● Fire insulation engineering for basements, garages, fire exits, granaries, stairwells, factories, etc.
Technical Performance | Parameter |
Particle Size(mm) | 0.1-1.5 |
Volume(Kg/m3) | 100-200 |
Heat Conductivity(w/m.k) | 0.047-0.054 |
Sphericity rate (%) | 70-90 |
Closure Rate (%) | ≥95 |
Water Absorption(Measured by vacuum filtration method) (%) | 50-85 |
Cylindrical Compress Strength(Volume loss rate at 1Mpa pressure%) | 38%-46 |
Fire Resistance (℃) | 1280-1360 |