Cement News tagged under: Alternative Fuels
India: fast forward30 July 2018, Published under Cement NewsIndia’s 425Mta cement industry, now in its 104th year of existence, plays a pivotal role not only in the country’s growth but also on the global stage. With an output of 280Mta in 2017, it is the world’s second-largest producer and supplies the second-most populous country. How does it view its future? By Ashutosh Saxena, National Council for Cement and Building Materials, India. The NCB’s Acting Director General, Ashutosh Saxena, highlights the positive expectations for the Indian ce... |
Into the future19 July 2018, Published under Cement NewsThere is no way we can imagine the world without cement and concrete. From 30 years ago, when International Cement Review was first published, until today, cement production on the planet has quadrupled. Depending on regional developments this volume may more or less stabilise going forward or even exhibit further growth. In any case, the cement industry will continue to lower the CO 2 footprint of cement and concrete. By Dr Martin Schneider, VDZ, Germany. Figure 1: cements containin... |
Czech cement production rises 3% in 201719 July 2018, Published under Cement NewsCement production in the Czech Republic increased 2.5 per cent YoY to 4.03Mt in 2017, according to the Czech Cement Association. Similarly, consumption showed growth of 3.5 per cent YoY to 3.95Mt in the same period. Imports increased by 19.2 per cent YoY to 552,290t in 2017, with deliveries to Slovakia consisting of almost half the figure and Poland forming over a third. However, exports fell 6.5 per cent to 547,267t in 2017 when compared with the previous year. Amongst the top export ma... |
Cementos Fortaleza to burn El Huixmí tyres16 July 2018, Published under Cement NewsCementos Fortaleza will play a key part in disposing of 867t of tyres that were stockpiled in the El Huixmí sanitary landfill in Pachuca de Soto, Mexico. Municipal president, Yolanda Tellería Beltrán, said the removal of the tyres from the landfill site had started in January and had now been completed. "The cement company has all the equipment and technology to protect against contaminants, and it does not cost the city council because it is the company that transfers all the material fr... |
Materials & quality: 30 years on10 July 2018, Published under Cement NewsThe development of new cement types and demands on fuels as well as changes in process requirements have led to key changes in cement production over the last three decades. New raw materials and alternative fuels have given rise to new cement standards. Alternative raw materials increasingly reduce the need for virgin materials The cement Industry in 2018 has been through a long period of soul searching and reorganisation which has involved multiple changes in ownership and adj... |
Meftah holds co-processing trials03 July 2018, Published under Cement NewsGICA subsidiary SCMI-Meftah has been carrying out co-processing trials using sludge, waste oils and sorted household waste in its Meftah works in Algeria. "These technological test operations were a success in all respects, as they fully respected the test protocol developed by the project-SCIM team as well as the safety and process procedures," said Adel Haddoud, the company’s director general. Further tests are planned to enable the use of these alternative fuels while maintaining cemen... |
Alternative fuels in a nutshell29 June 2018, Published under Cement NewsSince April 2015 Binh Phuoc Cement has partly replaced the fuel supply at its coal-fired cement plant with cashew nut shells in a project that not only makes operations at the plant more sustainable, but also helps the Vietnamese province dispose of a key agricultural waste. By Ha Tien 1 Cement JSC, Vietnam. Binh Phuoc Cement is helping Vietnam’s largest cashew processing province dispose of some 60 per cent of its cashew nut shell waste Part of Ha Tien 1 Cement Joint Stock C... |
PT Indocement28 June 2018, Published under Cement NewsPT Indocement is one of four companies approached by Indonesia’s Environment and Foresty Ministry to burn excess untreated medical waste. Since the closure of two of the country’s six medical waste companies last year, waste material from over 3000 health facilities has been left unmanaged. PT Indocement, along with PT Holcim Indonesia, PT Semen Padang and PT Cemindo Gemilang, has been asked to burn the waste within six months. However, as some of the waste contains infectious material, c... |
Burning used tyres24 May 2018, Published under Cement NewsOne way of reducing the fossil fuel requirement in clinker production is through the use of alternative fuels (AFs). Walter Materials handling, part of the ATS Group, looks at one plant that has invested in the burning of end-of-life tyres to reduce its thermal energy costs, lower its CO 2 emissions and tackle tyre disposal issues. By Basri Ogut, Walter Materials handling, France. LafargeHolcim invested in an end-of-life tyre project at its Martres-Tolosane plant in France ... |
Alternative fuels and clinker crystal characteristics30 April 2018, Published under Cement NewsArthur Harrisson examines the effect of alternative fuel use on the characteristics of crystals present in clinker. Figure 1: difference in alite quantity measured by microscopy and the Bogue calculation when burning increasing quantities of PSP Some four years ago an article was published in International Cement Review about the microscopic effects due to the use of alternative fuels (AFs). 1 In the intervening years the author has examined some 200 clinker sampl... |