International Cement Review articles tagged under : Manufacturing Technology

04 July 2022

Ensuring the quality of calcined clay cement

While calcined clays are fast becoming a sustainable alternative to reduce carbon emissions, ensuring the quality of calcined clay cement is key to gaining widespread market acceptance. By Prof Fernando Martirena-Hernandez and Dr Roger Almenares-Reyes, Ecosolutions, Switzerland. Figure 1: database for strength following EN-197 protocol 17 Clays are rock, soil or ore composed fund...

08 June 2022

Asia Cement’s SWAP

The trend for longer bags in baghouses requires cement plants to review their bag cleaning systems. Gas filtration specialist CTP Team recently installed its advanced SWAP technology at Asia Cement’s Pukrang plant in...

10 May 2022

The low-carbon cement bet

Cementos Argos has developed a low-carbon cement using alkaline activation technology to formulate hybrid cements. This type of green cement allows the increased use of supplementary cementitious materials activated ...

20 April 2022

Taking the magic out of machine learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its subcomponent machine learning (ML) are almost everywhere in industrial processes, and cement manufacturing is no exception. 1,2 Despite the common use of these terms, how a model...

Influencers of strength 21 March 2022 Arthur Harrisson

Influencers of strength

Over the years several factors that influence the strength of cement have been determined. These include mineralogy, chemistry, microstructure and process.   Figure 1: central irregular alite growth with many ...

21 February 2022

Feeling the heat of mercury

Cement kiln operators, particularly in cases of co-incineration, may feel the heat when considering upcoming government regulations regarding mercury emissions. Therefore, it is recommended to invest in upgrading mer...

Durable dampers 07 February 2022

Durable dampers

To guarantee the regular operation of a tertiary air duct (TAD) system, importance should be placed on damper performance. Topnewer’s prefabricated damper with a framework made of non-metal ceramics has been develope...

11 January 2022

Smart conveying

To get the maximum out of maintenance, proactive and predictive approaches have proven to increase the overall efficiency of plant equipment. The PREMAS® 4.0 predictive maintenance solution, developed by AUMUND for c...

15 December 2021

Inline and offline oil filtration

Proper oil filtration can reduce downtime and increase equipment reliability. Combining inline and offline filtration technologies can ensure optimum lubricant cleanliness, and lead to an increase in component and oi...

01 December 2021

Changing colour

Brown or yellow colours in the clinker core are indicative of unfavourable burning conditions such as reducing conditions in the kiln, according to specialists. At Tehran Cement Co, researchers have carried out a lab...

16 November 2021

VRM audits and optimisation

The increasing use of vertical roller mills (VRMs) in the production of cement to reduce power consumption and CO 2 emissions has resulted in an increasing need for VRM  optimisation. As cement producers look to pro...

15 November 2021

Radiometry: advancing cement process control

In the challenging conditions of a cement plant, traditional process control methods are not always suitable. Radiometric process control provides a non-contact and non-intrusive technique to carry out continuous lev...

03 November 2021

The cement industry’s energy challenge

With global cement demand expected to rise by as much as a quarter by 2050, the industry faces a range of challenges to produce in a more sustainable way. One aspect is to reduce its energy input to reflect tighter e...

26 October 2021

Sample preparation meets digitisation

Process sample analysis is increasingly important in the cement industry. The preparation of samples is key to ensure rigorous quality control of a range of materials, from raw materials to the finished products. An ...

25 October 2021

Measuring systems for CCUS

Following the Paris climate agreement (2015), the decarbonisation of the energy and industrial sectors is becoming increasingly important. One of the most significant measures to achieve the climate targets is to red...

12 October 2021

The future of process control

The global task to ensure sustainable clinker and cement production has increased the complexity of plant operations. New process control technologies, including online reactivity measurements, contribute to the prod...