Cement News tagged under: burner
Fives Pillard burner is commissioned in east Asia27 September 2021, Published under Cement NewsFives Pillard reports it has commissioned a Novaflam ® Evolution burner for a cement plant in east Asia. Due to the travel restrictions linked to the health crisis, this commissioning was carried out remotely with the cooperation of the customer. The 143MW coal/petcoke Pillard Novaflam ® Evolution burner, with oil as start-up, was supplied as a replacement for an old competitor's burner. The aim of this replacement was to increase the kiln capacity to 9000 ,tpd without impacting... |
Fives Pillard complete kiln burner renovation30 August 2021, Published under Cement NewsFives Pillard has transformed an old burner (from another brand), into a multifuel-fired Pillard N OVAFLAM ® burner, allowing it to fire both gas and petcoke at a South American cement plant. Fives Pillard's renovation will enable the plant to r educe the amount of kiln dust, limit the specific consumption and t ake advantage of Fives' expertise in rotary kiln burners to improve the clinker's crystallography. The solution provided by Fives' technical teams was to keep the whol... |
Burglengenfeld to use FCT Turbu-Flex burner09 August 2021, Published under Cement NewsIn June FCT Combustion delivered a Turbu-Flex™ burner to HeidelbergCement’s Burglengenfeld plant in Germany. The Turbu-Flex™ burner is designed to fire very high levels of alternative fuels. The targets of the project are to maximise the use of alternative fuels as well as to improve combustion control. The Burglengenfeld plant is using coal and petcoke firing. The new burner will offer multi-fuel capabilities for liquid and solid alternative fuels and flexibility for quick fuel changes w... |
FCT Combustion to install Turbo-Flex™ burner at Couvrot plant31 July 2020, Published under Cement NewsFCT Combustion has just delivered a new Turbu-Flex™ burner to a client in France! The Turbu-Flex™ will be installed at Ciments Calcia's Couvrot plant in France, after the installation of its new calciner. The targets of the project are maximised use of alternative fuel, as well as improved control of the combustion. Commissioning is expected for 2021. |
Processing depth for AFs06 June 2019, Published under Cement NewsIn his paper ‘A new approach to burning alternative fuels’, delivered at the Cemtech Europe 2018 conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Oral Turesay of KHD Humboldt Wedag introduced the concept of ‘processing depth’. His thesis was that the greater the proportion of the thermal energy requirements to be provided by alternative fuels (AFs), the greater the investments for kiln modification are likely to be. That is certainly the case and has been borne out by many examples from the international cem... |
FCT Combustion wins Ecuador order15 January 2016, Published under Cement NewsFCT Combustion announced that HORMICRETO, Cuenca, Ecuador, has placed an order for two calciner burners and a hot gas generator for its swing mill application, for alternative liquid fuels firing, with a thermal capacity of 5.2 MW, including the complete the fuel pumping, heating and valve train. International orders Several big cement groups in other countries have also endorsed FCT combustion technology, awarding the following orders: • North America : two low-NOx GYRO-THERM™ MKII bur... |
FLSmidth’s Chinese highlights24 March 2014, Published under Cement NewsFLSmidth has decades of experience in cement plant construction in the Chinese market. Its technology and engineering capabilities has enabled the Danish turnkey specialists to build strong relationships with many leading Chinese producers and equipment suppliers. Such opportunities have led to the recent cooperation between FLSmidth and CNBM International Engineering in the first of many projects the two companies hope to build together outside of China. FLSmidth's long-term strategy... |
Flame shape and quality30 January 2012, Published under Cement NewsArthur Harrisson investigates how burning and temperature in various types of kilns has an effect on the clinker produced and discusses different aspects of the burning process such as heating rate, maximum burning temperature, the burning time and the cooling rate to show their importance to clinker quality. Optical microscopy offers visual assessment of clinker quality In the cement manufacturing industry, people still tend to refer to the burner at the front-end of the kiln a... |