KHD Humboldt Wedag received the order for engineering, equipment supply, supervision of erection, and commissioning, including on shore training, for Askale Cimento’s new 4000tpd pyroprocessing system at Gümüshane cement plant, near the town Gümüshane in Northeast Black Sea region of Turkey.

Under a contract with Sintek Madencilik Ltd. as general contractor, KHD’s scope of supply includes various auxillary equipment, automation and instrumentation, as well as core components with KHD design, including:

• five-stage Humboldt preheater with PYROCLON®R calciner, equipped with 
PYROTOP®compact mixing chamber and tertiary air duct with dust settling chamber, and PYROBOX calciner firing system for coal dust.
• PYRORAPID® two-tire rotary kiln with diameter 4.6m x 54m long.
• PYRO-JET® kiln burner for coal and fuel oil.
• PYROFLOOR® clinker cooler equipped with a hammer-type clinker crusher and controlled by PFC Control System.

Commissioning of the plant, which will be erected near the existing Gümüshane cement grinding unit, which has a capacity of 100tph, is scheduled for the beginning of 2013.