Cement Plant Operations Handbook
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Contents
Process Summaries
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2. Raw Materials
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1. Introduction
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1. Raw Materials 2. Reserves 3. Crushing 4. Pre-blending
3. Raw Milling and Blending
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1. Raw Milling 2. Blending
4. Burning and Cooling
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1. Kiln Burning 2. Control Systems 3. Kiln Control 4. Kiln
Start-up and Shut-down 5. Kiln Refractories 6. Insufation
7. Kiln By-pass 8. Preheater Cleaning 9. Fossil Fuels
10. Waste Fuels 11. Coal Firing 12. Clinker Cooling
13. Kiln Mechanical 14. Emergency Power
5. Cement Milling
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1. Clinker Storage 2. Cement Milling 3. Separators 4. Ball
Mill Circuit Control 5. Cement Storage 6. Cement Dispatch
7. Quality Assurance and Customer Service
6. Quality Control
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1. Sampling 2. Chemical Analysis 3. Evaluation of Clinker
Mineralogy, Microstructure and Clinker Quality 4. X-ray
Diffraction 5. Particle Size Analysis 6. Thermal Analysis
7. Microscopy 8. The Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing
Laboratory 9. Calorimetry 10. Burnability 11. Grindability
12. Physical Test 13. Process Control Analysis 14. Cement
Strength 15. Setting Time 16. ASTM Cement Types and
Specications 17. European EN 197 Cement Specication
18. Cement Intergrinds 19. Supersulphated Cement
20. Calcium Aluminous Cement 21. Shrinkage-Compensating
Cement 22. ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System
23. Concrete Problems 24. Domestic Water Treatment
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7. Maintenance
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1. Failure Modes 2. Computerised Maintenance Management
Systems 3. Reliability-Centred Maintenance 4. Maintenance
Cost Management 5. Maintenance Organisation 6. Role,
Planning and Control 7. Mobile Equipment Maintenance
8. Environment and Pollution Control
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9. Combustion and Heat Transfer Processes
1. Dust Collection 2. Pollution Control 3. ISO14000
4. Sustainable Development and Climate Change
1. Chemistry of Combustion 2. Fuels 3. Physics of
Combustion 4. Burner Design 5. Heat Transfer 6. Pollution
Control
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11. Other Kiln Types
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10. Hydration of Portland Cement
1. Long Wet Kiln 2. Long Dry Kiln 3. Lepol (Grate Preheater
Kiln) 4. Vertical Shaft Kilns 5. Fluidised Bed Kiln 6. Mini Kilns
12. Plant Reporting
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1. Denitions 2. List of Reports 3. Inventories and Feeders
4. Downtime Reporting 5. Miscellaneous Reporting
6. Typical Daily Production Report 7. Typical Process Summary
Data 8. Typical Equipment Downtime Report 9. Plant Manning
13. Accounting
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1. Cost Accounting 2. Investment Justication 3. Capacity
Increase by Process Change 4. Project Cost Estimation
5. Financial Statements
14. Technical and Process Audits
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1. Kiln Specic Fuel Consumption 2. Cement Mill Specic
Power Consumption 3. Other Systems 4. De-bottlenecking
5. Project Audit 6. Risk Assessment
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15. Cement Plant Assessment Data List
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1. General 2. Administration and Commercial 3. Quarry
4. Drying 5. Raw Milling 6. Blending 7. Kiln 8. Fuel
9. Clinker 10. Finish Mill 11. Cement 12. Quality Control
13. Packing and Distribution 14. Dust Collectors
15. Maintenance 16. Process 17. Materials Analysis 18. Plant
Capacity Summary
16. Cement Plant Valuation and New Plant
Construction
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1. Plant Valuation 2. New Plant Construction 3. Project
Management
17. Statistics
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Section B Process Calculations and
Miscellaneous Data
B1. Power
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B2. Fans and Air Handling
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B3. Conveying
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B4. Milling
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B5. Kilns and Burning
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B6. Fuels
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B7. Materials
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B8. Miscellaneous Data
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B9. Periodic Table
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References
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Index
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Advertisers Index
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