Impact of clinker coolers
on downstream equipment

1 Introduction When cooler vendors bring a modified grate cooler onto the market, they like to present it as a new cooler generation. Customers generally see a new cooler generation in connection with...

1 Introduction In recent years there have been no really new and profound technical developments in kiln technology and none are to be expected in the cement industry in the foreseeable future....

Cooling takes place in the clinker bed. The grate cooler has to provide just for a favourable air flow and clinker handling (Fig. 1). This perception alone is not sufficient to obtain orders resulting...

1 Introduction At the end of a two-year planning and construction period, SPZ recommissioned its comprehensively modernised kiln system in spring 2011. With the installation of the world’s first...

Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde GmbH (Venti Oelde) extends the lifetime of the refractory brick lining in kilns in the cement industry – by targeted cooling of the surface of rotary kilns. During clinker...