December 2024

The December issue of World Cement kicks off with a brief overview of the economic situation in Vietnam before moving on to cover a range of technical topics, including: conveying, loading & unloading, gears, drives & bearings, XRF, XRD, sampling & analysis, alternative fuels, clinker cooling, and waste heat recovery.

This month's front cover is brought to you by N+P Group.

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REGIONAL REPORT: SOUTH EAST ASIA

The View From Vietnam
David Bizley, Senior Editor of World Cement, provides a brief overview of the economic situation in Vietnam.

CONVEYING

Optimising Overland Conveying
Brian Giese, BEUMER Group, explains how to select the right overland conveying technology to improve cement plant operational efficiency.

Cutting Conveying Costs
R. Todd Swinderman, Martin Engineering, explains how preventing fugitive material around conveyors can improve safety and reduce the costs of operations.

LOADING & UNLOADING

Levelling Up Load-Out Operations
John Stanton, DCL, explores how cement plants can maximise efficiency and enhance dust control in load-out operations.

GEARS, DRIVES & BEARINGS

Bearing Breakthroughs
David Mikalonis, SKF, highlights the transformative potential of hybrid ceramic bearings, illustrating how they could significantly improve the reliability and efficiency of operations in the cement industry.

XRF, XRD, SAMPLING & ANALYSIS

Combatting Carbon With Activated Clay
Dr. Simon Welzmiller and Dr. Carlotta Giacobbe, Thermo Fisher Scientific, present an x-ray diffraction case study on metakaolin, exploring how activated clays can help decarbonise cement.

ALTERNATIVE FUELS

Overcoming Feedstock Fluctuations
Lars Jennissen, N+P Group, discusses the complexities of maintaining high-quality alternative fuel processing in the face of varying feedstock quality, emphasising the critical role of advanced data collection and processing technologies in overcoming these obstacles for the cement industry.

Fuelling Change
Ian Jones, WKE, explores the importance of adopting alternative fuels to reduce the cement industry’s carbon footprint, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in doing so.

Fuels Of The Future
Stephanie Voysey, Lafarge Canada (West), explains how the Exshaw cement plant’s integration of low-carbon fuels demonstrates a transformative approach to significantly reducing carbon emissions in cement production.

CLINKER COOLING

From Hot To Cool
Janine Keune, Lechler, explains how water injection techniques can improve the efficiency of clinker cooling.

WASTE HEAT RECOVERY

Waste Heat Recovery For A Cleaner Climate
Exergy International explains why the cement industry must adopt new waste heat recovery technologies to effectively reduce carbon emissions.