The Germany industry produces 80 million t of carbon dioxide each year, 37 % of this alone by cement and lime producers according to the European Oeko-Institut e.V. The aim of reducing these...
As a general contractor, Ibau Hamburg led the construction of a cement terminal for Cementa HeidelbergCement Group at the port of Malmö/Sweden (Fig. 1). The multi-chamber silo, which is fed by a...
Temperature profiles in the axial direction of one industrial PFR kiln and two RCE kilns were measured using thermocouples. The results show that the temperatures in the PFR kiln fluctuate with...
1 Introduction
Operating mining companies need to face today’s market challenges in both economic and ecologic ways. The cost-effective production combined with a sustainable extraction management...
The first part of the article in issue 5/2012 dealt with the basics and case study I. It was shown, how MI-CFD modelling can be used to understand the thermo-fluid dynamics of a calciner. In Part II a...
On 23.05.2012 Christian Knell, General Manager Germany, received the certificate for the integrated management system of HeidelbergCement from Roland Glauser (Fig. left), Managing Director of the...
On 19.06.2012 the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), which operates under the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), launched its 2012 Progress Report at the Business Action...
Members of the European Parliament, together with the Gypsum industry, launched on 18.06.2012 in Brussels the EP Gypsum Forum, with the objective of strengthening the movement towards sustainable...
Carsten J. Reinhardt has been elected on 13.06.2012 as Member of the Corporate Board of Management of Voith GmbH and as President and CEO of Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG. As of 01.07.2012, Reinhardt...
At the Zahana cement plant of Societé des Ciments de Zahana, Northern-Algeria, CBMI has decided to increase the capacity of the plant significantly. Replacing the existing mill by a Loesche mill type...
