Cement News tagged under: Alternative Fuels
RDF – stored and delivered14 March 2012, Published under Cement NewsWhen Cementos Molins Industrial of Spain needed a new RDF preparation, storage and transport facility, the cement producer turned to Vecoplan FuelTrack. The German firm put its 15 years of experience to good use in a design that not only allowed for current requirements, but also for future needs as described in this article by Boris Sassenrath, Vecoplan FuelTrack GmbH of Germany together with Ferran Griera and Gonzalo Lopez of Cementos Molins Industrial SA, Spain. Figure 1: bridge cr... |
Semen Padang in alternative fuels initiative, Indonesia28 February 2012, Published under Cement NewsIndonesia's Semen Padang is developing the use of waste materials to replace coal, according to Abusyamsari, a member of the company’s innovation team. The state-owned cement producer and a subsidiary of Semen Gresik, has been using rubber waste since 2011. “In addition to helping the government in reducing waste, the use of waste rubber can also save production costs,” he told The Jakarta Post on the sidelines of the 2011 Semen Gresik Group Award on Innovation. “With an assumption that w... |
Dyckerhoff Ukraine in alternative fuels initiative27 January 2012, Published under Cement NewsDyckerhoff Ukraine intends to use briquettes of household fuel as waste at its Volyn Tsement plant in Zdolbuniv, Rivne region. Ukrainian News reported the company’s head of ecology, Roman Naumenko, as saying that the alternative fuels usage will start by September this year at a cost of EUR2.6m. The waste will be sorted at a waste processing plant in Rivne and be delivered by trucks to the cement plant. It is expected that the new initiative will reduce production costs by 20 per cent. |
How to burn more secondary fuel05 December 2011, Published under Cement NewsThe trend towards ever-higher substitution rates of noble primary fuel by waste-derived secondary fuels has been strong for some decades already and still there is no sign for this trend to weaken [1]. However, the spectrum of chemical and physical properties of secondary fuels is vast and also ever changing due to local and periodical variability [2]. Some projects have fallen behind their expectations and the lessons learned are that high substitution rates are not easy to achieve, as disc... |