Free lime in clinker is generally controlled by maintaining liter weights. But the problem expressed by you for a gas fired plant seems to be due to basic nature of material, mineralogy, possibly higher free silica etc.If u can shed some more light on the material characteristics then further analysis may be done. What is the rawmeal residue levels and also the PSD of clinker from the crusher? If the rawmix has been corrected properly, pl check the combinability temperature.