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FCT Combustion wins North American order

13 October 2023, Published under Cement News

FCT Combustion  has recently commissioned a complete combustion system for one of the largest clinker lines in the USA. The pyroprocessing line uses natural gas as the main fuel. The scope supplied and commissioned by FCT included: • Gyro-Therm™ burner with trolley, gas valve train, and burner management system (BMS) • four calciner burners with associated valve train • two hot gas generators for cement mills, including BMS and other accessories.

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 ...