The presented paper won first place at the recent IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Conference in Washington, DC. This paper is a follow-up to the previous award winning paper “Cement and CO2: A Victim of Success” that was presented at the San Antonio conference in 2012.
In his opening address, Chairman Dr. Thomas Stumpf, Member of the Board of Management at Fels-Werke GmbH in Goslar/Germany made clear that the protection of the industrial base, of industrial value chains and of the industry-orientated service sector are, and will remain, the essential preconditions...
Dry mortars are prefabricated mixtures composed of mineral binding agents such as cement, limestone, gypsum as well as sand, rock dust and further additives. On the building site the craftsmen have to merely mix them with water and they are ready for use. Owing to the avoidance of possible mixing errors, the producer can ensure a constant...
After 15 years, the Brazilian Cement Congress reunited more than 300 professionals and experts from Brazil and other countries, such as China, Germany, United States, India, Guatemala, Argentina,...
This article describes the successful use of the muffle kiln and the entrained-flow calcinator for the manufacturing of pozzolanas from clay raw materials, some of which were of very impure nature. ...
Starting in the early eighties, considerable efforts have been made to produce waste derived solid fuels – with little satisfaction due to insufficient qualities. Since then a lot of new techniques and processing machines...
The relevant waste treatment processes have to fulfil requirements set by European and national legislation. With a focus on incineration and co-incineration of waste, the technical...
Although modern students are accustomed to working with the latest high-tech equipment, those attending the ZKG student excursion had come to learn in greater detail about chalk and, above all, the production of cement at Holcim in Lägerdorf, Schleswig–Holstein/Germany.
A total of forty-two students, along with their professors and supervisors, came from the RWTH of Aachen, the Technical University of Freiburg and the Technical University of Koblenz to take...
Indonesia’s cement growth rate cooled down to just 5.5 % last year after double-digit growth rates for the two previous years. Now for the next few years a 6 % annual increase in the demand for cement is projected. ...
