Cement Seminar

December, 1982

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

14 A Smorgasbord of Issues (Keynote address), by T. E. Bronson, president,Moore McCormack Cement Inc.

17 New features of Ideal's Cris Dobbins Plant, by Gary B. Corcoran, southern region¬al technical supervisor, Ideal Basic Industries

23 New ideas in cement plant design, by Torben Enkegaard, vice president processdepartment, F. L. Smidth & Co. A/S, Denmark

31 Cost of building and operating a cement plant, by Ralph L. Capriola, vice presi¬dent, cement division, The Kuljian Corporation

35 Planned maintenance and training through audio-visual methods, by Leo

Lefebvre, director, Societe des Ciments Francais, France

36 Case history of a wet to semi-dry conversion, by John F. C. White, director

technical services, The Rugby Portland Cement PLC, England

40 Evaluation, design, and operation of new cement plant quarries, by M. J.

Bishop, manager mineral resources, Kaiser Cement Corp.

45 Increasing productivity of wet kiln operations—a panel discussion, by E. Glen

Irwin, vice president-production, Atlantic Cement Co., Inc.; James D. Shea, assistant

superintendent-Chanute plant, Ash Grove Cement Co.; C. O. Fleming, Jr., manager

process engineering, Gifford-Hill & Co., Inc. and Robert A. Helinski, production super¬intendent, Peerless Cement Co.; E. B. Thorn, Jr., vice-president-operations, Southwes¬

tern Portland Cement Co.

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Contents (continued)

61 How Overseas producers cope with coal fires and explosives—a panel dis¬cussion, by Peter Walker, manager field technical services, Blue Circle Industries,England and Christian Herrmann, head of process technology department, Holder-bank, Canada

71 Practical operating experience with waste materials as kiln fuel—a paneldiscussion, liquid wastes, by Knut Trovaag, general manager, Norcem, Norway;graphite dust, by Benjamin Roman, plant operations engineer, San Juan Cement Co.!Inc., Puerto Rico; solid wastes including tires, by Dr. Heinrich Matthee, manager!Dyckerhoff Engineering, West Germany; refuse, by Dr. David Watson, general manag¬er engineering and process division, Blue Circle Industries, England

86 Utilization of cement kiln dust, by Patrick Nicholson, chief executive officer, N-Viro

Energy Systems, Ltd.

88 Modernization of Ash Grove's Louisville Cement plant, by William E. Walker,assistant superintendent-Louisville plant, Ash Grove Cement Co.

91 A world view of cement marketing—a panel discussion, by Robina Rich, mar¬

keting manager, Saudi Research & Development Corp., Saudi Arabia; M. Ito, exportmanager, Onoda Cement Co., Ltd., Japan; Walter Troehler, vice president-marketing,Cementia Planungs und Beratung A.G., Switzerland; Fred D. Ullman, president, Ullman& Associates, U.S.A.

106 NOx control for cement kilns—an interim report on the EPA study, by S. C.

Hunter, manager combustion systems analyses, KVB, Inc.

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