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thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions wins Prepol® SC order

10 August 2022, Published under Cement News

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ Asia Pacific region has won a contract to supply a supply a prepol ® SC combustion chamber for a cement plant in South Korea. The scope of the contract includes engineering, mechanical equipment and some modifications to the preheater tower. The commissioning of the system is planned for the end of 2023.  thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ Regional CEO, Lukas Schoeneck, commented: “The current turbulences on the coal market create a lot of pressure i...

thyssenkrupp wins Prepol precalciner order

03 August 2022, Published under Cement News

thyssenkrupp Industrial Services in Asia-Pacific has been entrusted to provide a Prepol SC combustion chamber for a cement plant in South Korea. The target is to increase the thermal substitution rate in the calciner of up to 85 per cent without compromising any performance parameters in the pyroprocess. Feeding material will be mainly coarse municipal waste with high moisture levels. The contract constitutes engineering, mechanical equipment and some modifications in the preheater tower. T...

Impact of alternative fuels

27 March 2017, Published under Cement News

It is widely acknowledged that burning alternative fuels in cement kilns has some adverse effect on the kiln’s productivity and thermal energy efficiency. But how much effect? Dr Clark explores via benchmarking. Figure 1: kiln meantime between stops (MTBS) Case studies and the technology around the burning of alternative fuels (AFs) in cement kilns are recurrent topics in International Cement Review and at Cemtech conferences. They have also often been the topic of the...

Boosting Bolivian output

02 September 2014, Published under Cement News

With Bolivia’s cement market growing by double digits in recent years, cement producers have invested in extending their production capacities. One such company is Coboce which has added a second production line to its Irpa Irpa cement works in Cochabamba, Bolivia, reflecting the cement maker’s continued drive for growth. By Javier Ramallo Rocha, Coboce, Bolivia. Coboce increases output at its Irpa Irpa cement plant in Bolivia with the installation of a 1.6Mta line and increased mi...

Lower NOx & CO design

22 May 2013, Published under Cement News

Preheater and precalciner design play a prominent role in NOx and CO reduction from cement kilns. In this article, Cinar focusses on calciners and their impact on NOx and CO reduction efforts in the cement plant, offering cyclone combustion chamber and air-through calciners as models. By Dr Michail P Akritopoulos & Dr Tahir Abbas, Cinar Ltd, UK. Figure 1: Plant A: (a) oxygen contours in the CCC calciner and (b) contours of NO in the CCC. They show net NO generation without reductio...

Meeting future targets

03 May 2013, Published under Cement News

While this year marks Fives FCB’s 80th anniversary in the cement industry, the company also has 35 years of precalcining experience. Its latest precalciner with combustion chamber, the ‘Zero-NOx precalciner’, incorporates a design with direct flows which minimises NOx emissions while allowing the use of a wide range of fuels, from gas or fuel oil to anthracite or alternative solid fuels (ASF). In this article, Fives FCB shares some case studies of projects undertaken at different cement plan...