FEATURES:
- AFFORDABILITY: Relatively small initial investment
- SMALL SCALE: Small raw materials’ deposits suitability e.g. Limestone, clay, chalk, Dolomites, Bauxite
- PRUDENCE: Quarry dumps usability (wastes 0-5mm)
- INFRASTRUCTURE: New power lines are NOT needed
- POWER RECOVERY: Flue gases’ heat utilization for power generation, both for own needs and for Sale-to-Grid
- LOGISTICS: Reducing cement delivery leg – Saving on transport, storage, and fuel
- SYNERGY: Only cement clinker production plant is going to be built. Clinker milling can be done at existing facilities
- FLEXIBILITY: The clinker plant may be quickly re-programmed to manufacture expensive and rare cement brands if needed
ADVANTAGES:
- No rotating parts
- Metal consumption is lower
- Greater efficiency with less energy required
- Additional homogenization (mixing) of raw flour while melting
- No need for thorough homogenization (mixing)
- Fineness of grinding is not critical (up to 1.0 mm)
- High quality clinker because of melting (not firing or sintering)