Issue 11/2013

...in the Northern hemisphere, and everywhere people are enjoying the splendid hues that nature takes on in this season, while reluctantly putting...

The Hazemag & EPR GmbH has received from the Brazilian Brennand Cimentos the contract for two crushing plants for the new cement plant in the state of Paraiba/Brasil. The contract includes a limestone and a clay crushing plant. The commissioning of the two systems is to take place in spring 2014. The limestone crushing plant is designed for a capacity of 1500 t/h to produce a final product of 95 % < 90 mm. A 2nd product of 95 % < 50 mm may also be produced, but with less power. The hydraulic rebound adjustment works HAZtronic can...

The Flexco Europe GmbH in Rosenfeld/Germany, has expanded its senior management and appointed Joerg Schairer as additional managing director. He...

On 01.09.2013, at Holcim (Germany) AG there has been a change in the management of the division Geocycle: Tanja Freiburg takes over the position of...

At HeidelbergCement’s Burglengenfeld location, the company operates two KHD rotary kiln systems, which each have a capacity of 2000 t/d. In recent...

During loading of bulk materials there will be dust emissions, which is inconvenient and could even be noxious to the operators and harmful to the...

Airborne fine dust is to a considerable extent detrimental to human health. Fine dust contamination is particularly high in conurbations and...

Gerhard Hirth, President of the VDZ, opened the conference with a warm welcome to the over 680 delegates from more than thirty-five countries. His...

In mid 2013, Dr. Thomas Schulz was appointed as the new Group CEO of FLSmidth & Co. A/S. ZKG INTERNATIONAL had the opportunity to meet with him at the...

1 Introduction Odor emissions had been a problem for the cement plant in Wopfing located in Piestingtal in Lower Austria close to Wiener Neustadt,...

The Büyükçekmece cement plant (Fig. 1) is located in the West of Istanbul, Turkey, and has a production capacity of 5900 tons of clinker per day....

During the last four years, a hydraulic additive has been developed as a clinker substitute in the course of a research project at the Wopfinger...

In a rotary kiln very versatile and complex processes take place that are strongly nonlinear and time dependent. Efficient protection of the coating...

When an industrial process/a reactor is to be pneumatically fed with a solid material via several, simultaneously supplied feed points, one of the...

1 Introduction Various industrial processes are supplied with solid material via parallel pneumatic conveying pipes from several injection points. Normally, it is required that the individual solid material flows are distributed uniformly to the different injection points. ...