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Ensuring the quality of calcined clay cement

Ensuring the quality of calcined clay cement Premium

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 acc...

Asia Cement’s SWAP

Asia Cement’s SWAP Premium

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 techn...

The low-carbon cement bet

The low-carbon cement bet Premium

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 suppleme...

Taking the magic out of machine learning

Taking the magic out of machine learning Premium

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 ...

Influencers of strength

Influencers of strength Premium

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

Feeling the heat of mercury

Feeling the heat of mercury Premium

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

Durable dampers

Durable dampers Premium

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 ...

Smart conveying

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 maintena...

Inline and offline oil filtration

Inline and offline oil filtration Premium

Proper oil filtration can reduce downtime and increase equipment reliability. Combining inline and offline filtration technologies can ensure optimum lubricant cleanliness, and ...

Changing colour

Changing colour Premium

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...