International Cement Review articles tagged under : Environment
RDF production and utilisation in India
The production of refuse-derived fuels (RDFs) from municipal solid waste (MSW) offers one solution to address the growing waste issue in countries with increasing populations such as India. At the same time, these RDFs enable the cement industry to substitute fossil fuels and reduce its CO2 emissions. By Palash Kumar Saha and Dr Kåre Helge Karstensen, SINTEF, Norway, and Kannan Vairavan and Vi...
Tyres: going full circle
Contributing to the circular economy, an innovative tyre-burning initiative at PPC’s De Hoek plant in the Western Cape, South Africa, has successfully demonstrated the viability of burning waste tyres as an alterna...
The restoration revolution
While current environmental legislation expects the extractive industry to restore its abandoned mining areas back to their former use, it often falls short of detailed steps to achieve this goal. In the last few yea...
A zero waste solution
The development of new alternative fuel (AF) processing and handling technology has enabled cement producers to improve their fuel substitution rates while providing municipal and other authorities with a sustainable...
Cooling down refrigerants...in the kiln
The safe disposal of hydrofluorocarbons, present in end-of-service refrigerants, is key in helping to prevent excessive levels of global warming in the future. Cement kilns provide one way of dealing with these harmf...
Sustainable Primavera
The construction and operation of cement plants carry the potential to have a profound impact on the local environment and communities. However, with a strategic approach that considers a cement producer’s return on ...
Canada's low-hanging fruit
In the run-up to the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in Calgary, Canada, Adam Auer discusses the use of low-carbon fuels in the domestic cement industry to meet Canada’s federal and provincial clima...
Myanmar’s co-processing potential
With cement demand anticipated to rise over the coming years and production capacity set to soar to more than 20Mta, Myanmar’s cement industry has significant potential for co-processing several types of waste in its...
Effective mercury sorbents
Cabot Norit Activated Carbon investigates the critical sorbent properties to ensure lower mercury emissions.
Places of discovery
Whitehopelman explains how cement producers can benefit from quarries with archaeological finds.
Gaining in strength
As cement companies aim to lower their carbon footprint by reducing the clinker factor in their final product, clinker substitution features high on the agenda. The use of silica fume and rice husk ash provide option...
Alternative ambitions
LafargeHolcim is delivering on its 2030 Plan to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and increasing its usage of waste derived alternative fuels to lower its CO2 emissions by 40 per cent on its 1990 baseline.
Going alternative in Japan
Sumitomo Osaka Cement has modified its Ako plant to meet the need to burn a variety of alternative fuels.
From gas to garbage
The IFC reports on the potential to increase alternative fuel collection and usage in Egypt.
Benchmarking energy
The US Environmental Protection Agency outlines its ENERGY STAR programme as an energy benchmark and the progress made by Cemex US to manage its energy performance.
Visible cracks
CDP reports on cement company performances across a range of environmental and sustainable indicators to see where cement producers need to improve.