International Cement Review articles tagged under : Manufacturing Technology

16 May 2023

Grinding terminals

The installation of grinding plants for the milling of cement and blastfurnace slag has rapidly increased in recent decades. With this shift in investment, there has been greater demand for flexible and compact grinding systems, ideally near raw material sources and often in remote areas. By Caroline Woywadt, Gebr Pfeiffer, Germany. Figure 1: MVR duty series, indicating ready2grind plan...

03 May 2023

Harness the power of AI and industrial analytics

Digital applications, together with cloud and edge computing, can help to optimise the performance of rotating machinery, as ABB explains. By Sanjit Shewale, ABB, Switzerland. Data analytics – answering critic...

11 April 2023

Throwing AI into the cement decarbonisation mix

While reducing the carbon footprint of the cement industry is a global challenge, there are technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), available today that are enabling cement producers to transition to net ...

04 April 2023

A new era for carbon capture

Innovation in industrial carbon capture offers the cement sector a solution to its decarbonisation challenges. Aniruddha Sharma, chair and CEO of Carbon Clean, provides an update from the frontline of industrial car...

Spotlight on CCUS 03 April 2023

Spotlight on CCUS

Innovative technologies with the potential to make a substantial impact on the future of CO 2 emissions reductions from the cement industry are being developed and demonstrated today. With carbon capture, utilisatio...

20 March 2023

Supporting steps towards climate neutrality

Märker Zement GmbH has opted for the use of alternative fuels at its cement plant in Harburg, Germany, with the aim of enhancing both cost efficiency and sustainability efforts. To convey and store the various altern...

Learning the ropes 07 March 2023

Learning the ropes

Bardon Hill Quarry, UK, is just one project that has benefitted from Doppelmayr Transport Technology’s low CO 2 emission approach to quarry transport. The RopeCon® system combines ropeway technology with convention...

28 February 2023

The eye of the kiln

Thermographic vision has improved the accuracy of kiln monitoring systems and enabled cement plants to spot potential issues early. At Votorantim Cimentos’ plant in Malaga, Spain, VisionTIR installed an RKS300 system...

27 February 2023

Reducing CO2 in US cements

The US cement market is increasingly accepting lower-carbon cements such as Portland limestone and ternary blended cements. Cement producers such as CalPortland Cement are including these types of cement to help lowe...

20 February 2023

Measuring kiln temperatures

Temperature monitoring plays a vital role in supporting process efficiency and cement product quality. It can help to prolong the life of the kiln, detecting refractory issues or insufficiently-quenched clinker at an...

25 January 2023

Efficient enclosed handling

Growing global cement demand calls for new levels of efficiency and environmental protection. Recent Siwertell ship unloader deliveries and orders, including projects in the USA, Europe and the Middle East, demonstra...

11 January 2023

Three lines of defence

Digitalisation has enabled cement producers to increase the uptime of their equipment as artificial intelligence (AI) has alerted them to current or future equipment failure so swift action can be taken through the p...

10 January 2023

Supporting the drive for decarbonisation

As cement producers continue on the path to decarbonisation and carbon capture readiness, XDH-energy discusses the interconnected themes of Environmental Compliance as a Service (E-CaaS), Energy as a Service (EaaS), ...

11 January 2023

Better predictive power

With the cement sector now under pressure to improve the efficiency of operations, Industry 4.0 brings new opportunities. The study presented in this article provides a novel data-driven approach to predicting weighi...

23 December 2022

Closed-loop AI optimisation

A new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly replacing legacy cement process controls with self-learning optimisation and sophisticated AI models. They improve quality while allowing mills and kilns...

13 December 2022

Value from waste heat

Waste heat recovery represents a significant opportunity for cement producers to improve plant efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint. This article looks at several proven technologies for capturing and utilisi...