A chimney of corruption Premium
Dr Clark recounts how statistical analysis of the variation in product quality control testing can be used to detect the corrupt reporting of testing results as one particular c...
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Ethiopia’s fuel diversification Premium
Dr Clark takes part in a one-day cement industry workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop was arranged by the Ethiopian Society of Chemical Engineers and attracted an att...
Alternative fuel projects Premium
Dr Clark is inspired to consider alternative fuel project assessment and methodology following the paper presented by Brian McGrath of ResourceCo at the Cemtech Asia 2014 confer...
Cemtech and CO2 Premium
Dr Clark particularly enjoyed the Cemtech Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur in June and also the three-day technical training workshop that immediately followed the main event. Ho...
Total cost of ownership Premium
Dr Clark returns to the saga of the fictional cement company, Ruritania Cement, where problems have been encountered during the operational phase of the cement manufacturing pro...
Vocational qualifications
Dr Clark is caught up in the ‘spring clean’ of his office but finds that in having to throw away some long-unused resources he is reminded of some past involvements that have me...
Dependency: Part 2 Premium
In the second of a two-part Technical Forum Dr Clark continues his exploration of the complex dependencies involved in delivering a successful cement project. The fictional ceme...
Roll press metrics Premium
At the recent Cemtech conference in Prague, one of the presentations addressed the topic of energy reduction opportunities. During the following question-and-answer session, a d...
NOx in the mass balance Premium
Dr Clark discusses how NOx emissions fit into the mass balance of a cement kiln. How do they arise and how can they be controlled and mitigated? Organic nitrogen compounds in th...
Making step changes Premium
Dr Clark recalls the step changes in cement kiln technology and capacities that were provided by preheating and precalcining technologies. Modern day cement kilns have huge outp...