US 2020/0216357 A1
Oxy-calcination process
(22) 20.03.2020
(43) 09.07.2020
(57) Method and installation for calcining cement raw meal in a calciner whereby fuel and a calciner oxidant having an oxygen content of at least 30% vol. are introduced into the calciner so as to generate either an oxidant-lean zone or a fuel-lean zone in the calciner located between the lowermost fuel inlet level and the lowermost oxidant inlet level of the calciner, between 50% and 100% by weight of the raw meal being supplied to the calciner upstream of and/or within the oxidant-lean, respectively the fuel-lean zone.
(71) L‘Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l‘Etude et l‘Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, Paris (FR)
