Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Limak Cement trials hydrogen fuel calciner tests03 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsFor the first time in Turkey, Limak Cement has successfully conducted the hydrogen-blended 50 per cent carbon-neutral fuel test at its Limak Anka cement plant with Air Liquide. The strategic collaboration with Air Liquids will explore how to develop the green hydrogen ecosystem in the path of Turkish cement sector’s transition to carbon zero production. The test is a world first, claims Limak Cement, as it injects hydrogen-blended carbon neutral fuel to the calciner instead of the rotar... |
ANRAV project completes temporary installation of OxyCal and Oxygen storage units02 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials reports that over the last six months significant progress has been made at its Bulgarian Devnya cement plant with the installation of the temporary OxyCal and Oxygen storage units, which are now fully integrated into the commercially operating kiln. The ANRAV project will be the multinational’s first full-chain CCUS project in eastern Europe, and will eventually cover carbon capture, transport and storage as well as utilisation. In a first step towards full-sc... |
Low-carbon cement technology licensed to CalPortland02 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsSolidia Technologies, Inc a pioneer and leading company in the low carbon cement and concrete market, has entered into a technology licensing arrangement with CalPortland® Co in the western US, for the licence of certain patents that enable up to a 50 per cent reduction in the carbon footprint of cement and concrete. The limited licences will allow CalPortland to use the Solidia technology in the western US in to develop its low carbon solutions. CalPortland also purchased certain lab and ... |
Dalmia Bharat to collect an additional 70,000t of RDF from Gadakana01 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsThe Bhubaneswar Municipal Corp(BMC) has announced its decision to allow Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd to collect an additional 70,000t of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from the Gadakana temporary transit station. The RDF is produced from the waste that is processed at the site. Previously, the state government had partnered with four cement plants – Dalmia’s Rajgangpur, Siva Cement’s Kutra, ACC’s Bargarh and Toshali Cements’ Ampavalli – to manage non-recyclable waste, but only Dalmia has an a... |
Leilac to share decarbonisation recommendations with DoE01 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsLeilac is responding to the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) recent 'Request for Information on Transforming Industry – Strategies for Decarbonisation,' to help identify cost-effective decarbonisation pathways. Leilac, a decarbonisation project using Calix technology and Heidelberg Material 's Lixhe and Ennigerloh Nord facilities, is deploying a unique decarbonisation technology purpose built for cement and lime to provide the lowest cost means of capturing unavoidable process CO 2... |
Unacem to invest US$300m to reduce its carbon footprint by 203001 July 2024, Published under Cement NewsPeru-based Unacem Group has published its Corporate Roadmap to 2030, setting a carbon emissions target of 1500kg of CO 2 /t of cement by 2030 in all its operations, representing a reduction from 607kg, and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. To achieve the target the company is investing US$300m by 2030. In 2023 the company achieved a reduction of 5kg of CO 2 /to of cement and has set a total reduction target of 6kg for 2024. In the medium term, targets are 21 and 16kg for 2025 and 2026,... |
Queens Carbon receives funding for novel zero CO2 pilot28 June 2024, Published under Cement NewsQueens Carbon, a US-based startup company developing a ground-breaking technology to eliminate CO 2 from cement production, has been selected to receive funding from the US Department of Energy (DoE). The US$14.5m in funding comes via the DoE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) as part of its Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) programme. Queens Carbon will use the funding to construct an on-site pilot facility to dev... |
Shree Cement achieves 1GW renewable energy capacity27 June 2024, Published under Cement NewsIndia-based Shree Cement Ltd has reached 1GW of renewable energy capacity following the commissioning of the company’s 19.5MW solar power plant at factory in Andhra Pradesh. The milestone includes solar, wind, thermal and waste heat recovery power plants. The company has invested INR40bn (US$478.6m) to expand its renewable energy portfolio, representing almost half of its total installed power capacity. In FY24-25 it plans to invest an extra INR10bn to further expand renewable capacity.... |
Nuada starts carbon capture trials with Buzzi25 June 2024, Published under Cement NewsUK-based carbon capture technology provider Nuada has announced the launch of its pilot plant operation at Buzzi Unicem's cement facility in Monselice , Italy. Buzzi is trialling Nuada’s advanced carbon capture technology as a solution to produce low-carbon cement, leading the way in cement industry decarbonisation. This pilot project marks a milestone in carbon capture innovation, demonstrating the performance of Nuada's next-generation technology within a cement manufacturing setting... |
Catch4climate project installs oxygen tanks25 June 2024, Published under Cement NewsThe "Catch4climate" project reached another important milestone this week as it completed the installation of the six oxygen tanks for the oxyfuel plant. The oxyfuel kiln plant is expected to be commissioned in the 1Q25. The carbon capture project is taking place at the Schwenk Mergelstetten cement plant, Germany. The project of the research and development company CI4C is a merger of the four European cement manufacturers Dyckerhoff GmbH ( Buzzi SpA ), Heidelberg Materials AG , S... |