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How do blending beds stack up?

27 September 2016, Published under Cement News

Dr Clark tackles the science behind longitudinal blending beds for crushed raw materials. He discusses the part played by blending time, bed dimensions, volume, layering and stacker speed in the effectiveness of the blending bed. Blending beds smooth the variation in raw materials before they are ground in the raw mill to produce the kiln feed The vast majority of modern cement plants have some sort of blending bed for smoothing the variation in the raw materials before they are...

At the edge of the desert

15 September 2016, Published under Cement News

Exposed to the Sahara desert climate, a new cement plant has been taking shape some 40km north of Biskra, Algeria. In the hot arid summer with temperatures reaching 49.4˚C and an annual rainfall of less than 100mm, the construction of the Algeria Spa CILAS cement works presented its own challenges, but a flexible approach by main contractor CBMI contributed to the successful completion of the project. By Jinjun Gu and Yingying Zhang, CBMI Construction Co Ltd, China. The new cement wor...