Special reports

Arun Mote, Triveni Turbines, reviews the role of turbine design in waste heat recovery (WHR) systems and looks at the future of the technology in the Indian cement sector.

Robert Schmaus, Prüftechnik, and Nazim Huseynov, Holcim, discuss how Holcim’s Azerbaijan Cement facility was able to cut maintenance costs by 96% using a condition monitoring system to track the health of production-critical machinery.

Thomas Febvin, METRON, considers the importance of digital tools in reducing carbon emissions and boosting energy efficiency at the cement plant.

Carlos Fernandez, SATAREM, outlines the key steps on the journey towards successful and cost-effective clinker cooler modernisation.

John Hodson, Cardox, describes the company’s silo clean out strategy for Hanson’s cement plant in Purfleet, UK.

Albrecht Schall, VDZ, discusses the ‘Zwolf’ and the role of maintenance in ensuring that cement kilns operate effectively.

Turboden explains how cement plants could achieve better energy efficiency while reducing production costs and CO2 emissions through ORC technology for waste heat recovery.

Mark Yseboodt, Siemens, explains the importance of embracing machine learning and software innovations in order to drastically improve cement plant performance.

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.