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Carbolite Gero Ltd.

Parsons Lane, Hope


Hope Valley, S33 6RB, UK
Cement Testing for
Phone:
E-Mail:
+44 (0) 1433 / 62 00 11
[email protected]
Compliance
Internet www.carbolte-gero.com

The compliance of cement with standards such as EN 197 / ASTM C 150 is a quality
requirement. Quality assurance of the raw materials used in calcination and also
during the clinker production is necessary.

CARBOLITE GERO’s AAF 1100°C Ashing Furnaces and CWF 1200°C and 1300°C
General Purpose Furnaces are ideally suited for loss on ignition tests. Their use ensures
that the production process meets quality standards and provides ash samples for
additional analysis.

In addition, the burnability or free lime content of the clinker may be tested at intervals
using our higher temperature RHF 16/8 (1600 °C) Furnace. This is particularly
important in situations where there is variability in the raw materials.

TEST MATERIAL SITE TEST


TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE
Loss on Ignition Cement Room temperature 950 – 1050 °C
Loss on Ignition Clinker Room temperature 950 - 1050 °C
Loss on Ignition Raw meal 120 °C 950 - 1050 °C
Loss on Ignition Other raw materials Room temperature 950 - 1050 °C
Calcination Hot meal 950 °C 950 - 1050 °C
Moisture (water %) Clay Combined H20 Up to 500 °C
Moisture (water %) Gypsum Combined H20 Up to 500 °C
Moisture (water %) Limestone un-Combined H20 Up to 120 °C
Moisture (water %) All raw materials un-Combined H20 Up to 120 °C
Tabelle 1: Tests which may be Carbolite ovens & furnaces can be used in all of the tests above
carried out with Carbolite Gero
ovens and furnaces

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Pilot Plant / Laboratory Manufacturing

For Cement producers who wish to reproduce the Cement manufacturing process in a
laboratory / pilot plant there is a requirement to mimic the standard manufacturing
process shown below:

Figure 1: 'Thermal efficiency


modelling of the cement clinker
manufacturing process'
available online at
www.sciencedirect.com

Carbolite Gero’s RHZS Rotating Horizontal Tube Furnace has a 5L vibrating feeder for
raw materials.
The furnace itself enables the user to simultaneously heat and mix raw materials
mimicking real-world rotary kiln. With a maximum 1150 °C operating temperature the
work tube - which can be up to 75 mm in diameter - rotates and is suitable for
continuous material processing even in an inert atmosphere if required.
Time in the heated zone(s) depends on the pitch angle of the tube (horizontal to 10 °),
the rotation speed (1.5-10 rpm), the length of tube used (600 mm, 900 mm or 1000
mm) and the flow properties of the raw materials as they are heated and mixed. The
final heated and mixed clinker is delivered to a hopper where it can be cooled.

Figure 2: RHZS Rotating


Horizontal Tube Furnace

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