Michael Clark

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re Water reducer reagent

You can try lignosulphonate.

re High chloride in hot meal

This is a common problem. Chloride typically concentrates to 100x the inputs in the hot meal. Only a slight variat...

re use of Microscopy for Identify the Alk Sulphate in clinker?

Yes, that should be possible under sufficient resolution. If the alkali is present as sulphate then it will be sol...

re TSR % in kiln from 4.5 % to 10.%

You need to define TSR?

re Soil mixing pile

We do not mix soil in the cement manufacturing industry. Soil implies some organic content whch would cause emissi...

re What are the checks required?

How stable is your process? A baghouse will be less toleraant to exhaust gas temperature excursions than will an E...

re use of feldspar & flourspar in white cement

Fluorspar is added to help the combination of the kiln feed into the white cement clinker so reducing the fuel (pe...

re whiteness of white cement

The whiteness of white cement is primarily determined by the Fe2O3 content of the white cement clinker. White ceme...

Re: Air velocity

A ball mill equipped with roller press should only have one chamber with small grinding media to complete the fine gr...

Re: refractory in emergency condition

Cement kiln refractory bricks should not be cut to less than 50% of their original size. If a smaller closure than th...