Cement News tagged under: cement chemistry

Sulphate in clinker

The amount of sulphate (SO 3 ) varies widely in cement clinker. Arthur Harrisson discusses the s...

Raw material microscopy

Microscopical methods are key tools in the assessment of potential raw materials to be used in t...

Achieving the target

While achieving targets is commonplace in the cement industry, when it comes to quality, there a...

Loss on ignition

The loss on ignition of a raw material, cement or a clinker sample is the amount of weight lost ...

Fly ash and slag cements

While cements containing fly ash or GGBS have different strength properties to ordinary Portland...

Clinker cooling

Descriptions of the formation of cement clinker generally concentrate on those reactions that ta...

Reducing LSF

Just over a year ago an article in ICR discussed the possibilities for reducing CO 2 emissions ...