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Fives Pillard wins east European order

29 October 2021, Published under Cement News

Fives Pillard is installing a raw material-drying hot gas generator for a cement plant in eastern Europe.   The 75MW hot gas generator will operate with air at 250°C. During its start-up it will be fired with natural gas until it reaches 30 per cent of its power capacity, after which peat will become the main fuel.   The client's objective is to reduce the cost of clinker production by replacing natural gas with a less expensive pulverised fuel, peat. The difficulty of this ...

Lafarge Zementwerke orders A TEC Flash Dryer for Mannersdorf

24 November 2020, Published under Cement News

Lafarge Zementwerke GmbH awarded A TEC the contract for the implementation of the Flash Dryer to be installed at its 1.1Mta Mannersdorf plant in Austria. The dryer will help the plant to reduce the moisture content of RDF for the kiln burner. The A TEC Flash Dryer enables the use of various waste heat sources (including clinker cooler flue gas, bypass gas, preheater gas). The material is dosed to the hot gas flow in the flash dryer and transported with this gas flow, while the moisture is e...

Satarem supplies drying system to Cementos Tequendama

16 June 2017, Published under Cement News

Satarem has a supplied a complete drying system to Colombian cement producer Cementos Tequendama. The system consists of a three-sleeve dryer (φ3.6 × 8m) with a capacity of 50tph and the ability to reduce the moisture of pozzolan from 15 to one per cent. The new system is composed of three concentric cylinders which makes it shorter than traditional dryers, thus facilitating transportation and installation, Satarem said in a statement. The supply package also includes a fluidised bed co...

Paraguay: INC's Vallemi dryer online in March

21 February 2017, Published under Cement News

Paraguay’s Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC) expects to commission the new pozzolana dryer at its Vallemi plant next month. In addition, work on the plant’s fuel conversion is also progressing well, having been completed 80 per cent, according to INC CEO, Jorge Méndez. The investment into the plant will enable it increase production, improve product quality and lower cement prices in Paraguay.