It's all about the costs Premium
Dr Clark considers the value of measuring and comparing the costs of making cement as the first step to optimising, ie minimising, those outlays as he discusses cost benchmarkin...
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A self-cleaning process Premium
Dr Clark is inspired by two examples from International Cement Review and Cemtech that demonstrate the potential for the cement kiln process to be modified to continuously clean...
Red rivers of segregation Premium
This month’s Technical Forum ponders the tendency of particulate solids to segregate at various stages of the cement manufacturing process with critical implications, especially...
Workshops, NESHAP and optimisation
The US NESHAP regulations provided a rich talking point at Cemtech Americas 2015 and discussions continued during the associated Technical Workshop. At the forthcoming Cemtech M...
Co-processing – here to stay Premium
Co-processing is a major topic for this edition of ICR and, of course, an increasingly major theme for the world cement industry. One of the roles of the Technical Forum is to e...
Looking forward to Orlando
Following the Cemtech Europe 2015 Technical Workshop, Dr Clark looks forward to the next workshop of its kind to be delivered in Orlando, USA, in December. With a two-day editio...
Beyond Bernoulli Premium
Dr Clark considers the flow of gases through the cement kiln process and some of the governing principles and complexities. Preheater exhaust gas flows are an important source o...
What cement users want Premium
Dr Clark returns to the topic of cement product development looking at how the properties of cement can be modified to suit different concrete and mortar applications. Cement pr...
Deep-dive benchmarking Premium
Dr Clark is finally able to talk about his involvement in an innovative project to improve the performance of supplier/service provider to the international cement industry. The...
Production accounting Premium
Dr Clark muses on the complications of cement production accounting and the estimation of the physical inventory stocks of in-process materials. The monitoring and accounting fo...