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Ted Krapkat

Registered User Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. Plant Chemist, Cement Australia.

Re: Improve end cone phenomenon of the stockpile

Hello Dastgir, The only time you would be able to take a representative slice of a stockpile end-cone would be at r...

Re: blending

vinayak: It can be improved by increasing the number of layers by increasing the stacker speed.  Yes, ...

Re: Improve end cone phenomenon of the stockpile

Hi Tam,   We had this same problem at my plant several years ago. In the end, we installed a PGNA cross-belt analy...

Re: Alkalies in pozzolans

Hi Davo, The ASR has to do with soluble alkalis, so that even with respect to clinker, only the soluble alkali port...

Re: Sinter ring

Hello Raj, Coincidentially we had the same experience in our 5000tpd, dual string preheater, precalciner kiln last ...

Re: egg yolk

Hello Raj,  The Magotteaux test is a fairly simple but very sensitive test for the presence of Fe2+ in clinker, alt...

Re: egg yolk

While reduced iron can lead to the phenomenon of brown or yellow centres in clinker nodules as described above, I ha...

Re: Use Limestone for Cement Grinding

Hello Tam.  I have seen values of >2% clay in concrete quoted as causing problems. I believe there is a titratio...

Re: Free Lime

Hello Gulam, It really depends on how long the clinker has been exposed to moisture and whether or not it has also ...

Re: Cement Kiln to Lime Kiln

Hi,  We did this exercise in 2004 when we converted our old 125t/h, single string cyclone preheater kiln into a 36t...

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