The Resource Optimization

Scarcity of raw materials is one of the challenges that the cement industry is facing, along with depleting fossil fuel reserves, perpetually increasing demand for cements and concretes, growing environmental concerns and an ailing world economy.

Beyond process improvements in Portland cement production, whose high carbon emissions are generated through raw materials calcining (60 percent) and clinker phase pyroprocessing (40 percent), streamlined Co2 levels will be realized through the development of new cements, and concretes of lower clinker content, thereby reducing mix designsÔÇÖ volume of material with highest embodied energy.

Read rest of the article in the CemWeek Magazine, Issue 30