Displaying items by tag: Coprocessing

Brazil: Votorantim Cimentos has won an award for its açaí stone co-processing project at its Primavera plant in Pará state. It won the atmosphere emissions category at the 14th Brazilian Environmental Awards organised by the American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil. The plant processes 6500t/month of açaí berry stones and it plans to target 10,000t/month. The state of Pará produces around 0.5Mt/yr of açaí stone.

India: UltraTech Cement has signed an agreement with Southern Railways to co-process waste at its Ariyalur plant in Tamil Nadu. Waste to be used as fuel at the plant as part of the ten-year deal will include rexin, cushion, coir and thermocol, according to the Times of India newspaper. The first shipment of waste to the cement plant was transported in mid-July 2018.

China: China Resources Cement has completed a hazardous waste co-processing project in the Changjiang Li Autonomous County of Hainan. The unit started operation in early February 2018 and it has a processing capacity of 100t/day.

China: Huaxin Cement built three co-processing projects for its cement plants in 2016. It also signed contracts to build 10 new projects and six new projects were under construction. The cement producer said in its annual report that it had 25 co-processing projects operating or under construction with a capacity of 5Mt/yr. It added that its waste disposal per tonne of clinker production was ahead of its competitors in the sector. It noted that its had increased its usage of alternative fuels in the second half of the year following an increase in the cost of coal. Huaxin Cement, like other Chinese cement producers, has been actively enacting government-promoted supply side reforms following a poor market in 2015.

China: Dongwu Cement has struck an agreement with Suzhou Dongfang Jiujiu Industry to start a waste disposal company to supply alternative fuels for its kiln. The cement producer based in Wujiang City, Suzhou Prefecture and its partner will invest US$7.3m in the joint venture to start with, according to the ET Net News Agency. Dongwu Cement will own a 52% share in the company.

It will co-process urban sludge, organic waste and industrial solid waste. It will also collect, store and dispose of soil for soil remediation. It is expected the company will dispose of 50,000t/yr of industrial solid waste.

Dongwu Cement operates a 0.75Mt/yr cement plant with two grinding mills, giving it a cement production capacity of 1.64Mt/yr. It manufactures 42.5 and 32.5 class Ordinary Portland Cement.

Ireland: Irish Cement is planning to cut the amount alternative fuels it intends to co-process at its Limerick cement plant to 90,000t/yr. The cement producer withdrew its initial planning application in March 2016 but has resubmitted a new application with a lower amount of alternative fuels, according to the Limerick Leader newspaper. It now aims to burn half of the original amount that was originally requested.

It originally announced its Euro10m plan to co-process alternative fuels including tyres at the plant in December 2015. The investment is intended to create 40 jobs. However, local citizens have opposed the plans with over 450 people signing a petition against the development.