Special reports

Graziano Bertulessi and Martin Schroeter, Tri-Mer Corporation, explain why the cement industry should embrace ceramic filtration technology as a valuable tool to achieve the next level of emissions control.

OPTIMITIVE explains how a US cement plant was helped to achieve higher levels of optimisation using AI Real Time Optimisation technology.

Dr. Stefan Puntke, Dr. Christian Meyre, Dr. Hans-Jürgen Klischat, and Klaus-Martin Meier, Refratechnik Cement GmbH, discuss the importance of good customer service in the cement and refractory industries.

Byron Allen, Martin Engineering, details the upgrade of a hot clinker transfer point for a cement plant in Texas.

Lars Jennissen, N+P Group, describes the latest developments in waste derived alternative fuels and raw materials, and outlines how cement producers could utilise them to achieve higher thermal substitution rates.

Felix Bartknecht, Ferdinand Kaschewski, and Sriparthan Sriraman, SICK, consider the best solutions for monitoring the status and health of kiln inlet process gas analysis systems in order to achieve the highest plant availability and product quality.

Dr.-Ing. Roger Meier, FCT-ACTech, explains why online analysers should form part of every cement plant’s CO2 emissions reduction strategy.

Bearing failures can be costly, disruptive and, in some cases, dangerous. Chris Ager, Bowman International, considers three of the main reasons for bearing failure in high-load environments and explains how these issues can be prevented.

Dr. Dominik Aufderheide and Dr. Luigi Di Matteo, DI MATTEO Group, provide an overview of state-of-the-art conveying concepts for the continuous feeding of bulk materials.

Ahmad Al-Rousan, Secretary General of the Arab Union for Cement and Building Materials (AUCBM), provides an overview of the challenges facing the cement industry in the MENA region.

Jonas Fack, Bruks Siwertell AB, discusses the influx of orders for cement handling systems, backing-up industry predictions for a substantial rise in global infrastructure demand.

Othon Manis and Panagiotis Margaris, TITAN Group, explain how cement plants could improve their operational efficiency, product quality, and environmental performance by leveraging AI solutions.

KettenWulf describes the development of efficient, sustainable and resource-saving central bucket elevator chains for the cement industry.

Philippe Bouchard, VP Development at AlphaStruxure, considers how EaaS models can offer cement producers an attractive means to decarbonise, and a trusted way to manage and consume clean energy.

Jorge Sarmiento, Cementos Argos, provides details on a port expansion project in Cartagena, Colombia.