Kattameya plant burns biomass for the first time

The Suez Cement Kattameya plant (HeidelbergCement Group) has used waste as alternative fuel (AF) in its main burner for the first time this week.

The Kattameya plant’s team successfully burnt waste as an AF in the main kiln burner and reduced dependence on fossil fuel by around 10 per cent of the total fuel used. This is in addition to substituting 15 per cent of fuel in the calciner, resulting in a total thermal substitution rate (TSR) of 25 per cent. Therefore, waste and biomass burnt at the plant will double to 75,000t this year, leading to a drop in CO₂ emissions of 100,000tpa. 

Suez Cement group plans to further lift its TSR to 30 per cent by burning around 0.5Mta of waste.