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...
A leading Turkish cement producer has specified high-performance air cannons to replace an under-performing existing system, which was jeopardizing the plant’s output capacity by failing to remove...
“The German economy is booming. At the beginning of 2010 we still expected a growth rate of 1.75 % in that year, but now it is clear that the economy performed outstandingly in 2010 and that the...
The ZKG students‘ field trip took place between 14th and 16th June 2011, this time in co-operation with CEMEX OstZement GmbH, Rüdersdorf Works (Fig. 1). Almost 50 students from the RWTH Aachen and...
In Germany plant operators receive remuneration for the eco-power they produce and grid operators and utilities are obligated to purchase that power on a preferential basis. The higher costs are...
In the following, concepts are introduced based on the mechanical, physical and thermal processing of substitute fuels. With increasing international cost pressures not only the applications of...
Although the building boom has started again, increasing energy and raw material prices in almost all world markets, however different, are a growing challenge for cost-efficient production....
The Klaus-Dyckerhoff Prize has been awarded at the Technical and Scientific Conference of the Cement Industry, organised by the German Cement Works Association (VDZ) in Düsseldorf, to Dipl.-Ing. Karl...
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...
In March 2011, Sinoma Equipment and Engineering Corp., Ltd. (Sinoma E&E) acting as full line supplier for a new cement production line placed an order for the supply of an MPS 5300 B vertical roller...
