The May 2018 issue of Global Cement Magazine has a wealth of material related to the IEEE-IAS/PCA Conference in Nashville, including interviews with the PCA President and its Chief Executive, a look at the past 12 months in the US cement sector, a plant report from the Cementos Argos Roberta plant and a look at that plant's recent CARBON X-PRIZE CO2 capture trial. To coincide with the visit by delegates of the forthcoming Global CemProcess Conference in London, UK, there is also a detailed plant report from Breedon's Hope plant, plus technical articles on fans, conveyors, chains, slag handling and a review of the AFCM Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.
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The Cementos Argos Roberta plant in Alabama recently took part in a CO2 capture and utilisation trial with its CARBON X-PRIZE partners Sustainable Energy Solutions (SES), Praxair and CarbonCure Technology. The successful trial, conducted in January 2018, captured CO2 from the Roberta plant’s main stack and used it in the production of concrete. Global Cement recently spoke to Robert Niven, founder of CarbonCure Technologies and John Kline, Kline Consulting, about the project...
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Global Cement looks back at the past 12 months in the US cement sector to coincide with the 60th IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in Nashville, US...
Vortex’s international sales network consulted with an Australian cement company to provide solutions for a new sand and slag drying plant. For this project, the cement company sought an effective solution for discharging dried blast furnace slag from a silo into open trailer trucks. The new plant was installed and began operations in 2016...
The 25th ASEAN Federation of Cement Manufacturers’ (AFCM) Technical Symposium & Exhibition successfully took place in Bandung, Indonesia on 4-6 April 2018. Around 500 delegates heard 22 presentations and visited over 50 exhibitors over the three days. Global Cement was in attendance as event media partner and reports here on the highlights...
Concrete is the world’s largest man-made product and cement is the essential binder that makes it. It is estimated that 9.8 billion people will inhabit this planet by 2050 and that 60% of the essential infrastructure needed to house this number, to provide them places to work, to educate them, to provide clean water, to give healthcare and to transport them still has to be built. Consequently, the demand for concrete is anticipated to significantly increase by 2050. The challenge to the cement industry is clear, we must increase the momentum that the sector has built up in reducing its CO2 emissions....
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