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Fan power savings

10 December 2012, Published under Cement News

Checking the aeraulic performance of fans, which tend to reduce over time, can result in important power consumption savings and achieve optimal settings for all fans in operation at cement plants. Compagnie Belge de Ventilateurs (CBV) explains how it conducts these assessments and highlights the savings achieved at CBR’s Lixhe cement plant in Belgium. CBV's factory house and new rotor for an existing fan Confronted with ever-increasing energy costs, CBV customers are primarily ...

MPS: more than meets the eye

19 November 2012, Published under Cement News

Vertical roller mills are not only used for grinding cement raw materials but also find an application in grinding a wide variety of coal types in cement and power plants. Gebr Pfeiffer SE (GPSE) describes its vertical roller mills for coal grinding and provides a case study of an MPS225BK installed at CBR’s Lixhe cement works in Belgium. By Dr Caroline Woywadt and Rüdiger Sonnen, Gebr Pfeiffer SE, Germany. Figure 1: MPS coal grinding mill with SLS high-efficiency classifier ...