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Rapid screening

28 February 2018, Published under Cement News

Traditional screening methods to evaluate the quality of natural pumiceous pozzolans for cement production are not entirely compatible with a production process that requires a steady pace in the supply of high-quality raw materials. To help increase the speed of this evaluation, Cementos Progreso developed a rapid screening method using XRD analysis to determine the hydraulic activity index of pumiceous pozzolanic materials. By Luis Velásquez, Roberto Diaz, Carmela Barrientos and Elvis Garc...

Online analysers

21 March 2012, Published under Cement News

Dr Clark takes the theme of online analysers for this month’s Technical Forum, reviewing the history of these devices in the cement industry and speculating as to how their deployment may increase in the future. FLSmidth's KilnLoq system is a probe that gathers gas data from the kiln inlet One of the main themes of this month’s ICR is online analysers, which also makes a good topic for this month’s Technical Forum. Online analysers have a long history in the cement manufacturing...