2008 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference

Tag: Pressed Fitting

In addition to attending papers, tutorials, committee meetings, and other sessions, conference guests this year will be taking a plant tour on Thursday May 22 of Titan America's Pennsuco facility. In addition to touring the cement production facilities, visitors will be taken to Titan's quarry to see mining the South Florida way-from below the water table. After seeing the plant, attendees will be able to tour the block manufacturing facility, one of the largest in the countries. The cement plant was commissioned in 2004 and has the latest state-of-the-art process equipment to handle some difficult high silica raw materials. In addition, an extensive, four-day spouse program also will be available.

With 27,000 employees and operations in 40 countries, this firm is focused on helping customers become more profitable, efficient, and environmentally friendly by supplying atmospheric, process, and specialty gases; high-performance coatings; and related services and technologies. The company's primary products are: atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon), rare gases (produced when air is purified, compressed, cooled, distilled and condensed), and process & specialty gases (carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, semiconductor process gases, and acetylene, produced as byproducts of chemical production or recovered from natural gas). The company also designs, engineers, and constructs cryogenic and non-cryogenic supply systems.

Started in 1977 and incorporated in 1980, Precision Machine & Manufacturing has grown from a small machine shop into a complete OEM facility, and is recognized as one of the nation's leading designers and manufacturers of precision rotary valves, feeders and screw conveyor material handling systems and components. PMM initially targeted the wood products industry with high quality feeders and screw conveyors. With the introduction of the modular PMV rotary valve, the company expanded its reach into the co-generation, mining, cement, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, among others. PMM's products are designed to convey virtually any dry, granular, or powdery material. The company's tight tolerances and high-quality materials and finishes are ideal for abrasive substances such as fly ash, coal, coke, volcanic cinders, diatomaceous earth, and pebble lime. PMM also manufacturers feeders and parts for the blower truck industry, and offers custom machining and fabrication services, utilizing the latest CNC and robotic equipment.

With more than 20 years of experience, Process Solutions integrates proven technologies with our cement industry specific software to provide systems for shipping automation, production quality management, and provision of advanced controls. This company has become the leading supplier of cement shipping systems in North America, and a leading supplier of laboratory LIMAS, as well as raw mix control systems throughout the world. In 2007, the company is building on the success of its self-service shipping and plant portal systems with the introduction of an Automated Materials Receiving System.

This Italian company with a worldwide presence provides more than 25 years of filtration equipment, gas treatments systems, upgrades, and turnkey services for the cement industry. From minor applications to complex solutions, consulting approach, creativity, and open vision are unique features that this firm applies to its range of products: large-volume and high-dust burden bag filters; low- and medium-volume modular bag filters; special bag filters for coal mills and silos; self-contained standard bag filters; hybrid filters (new and conversions); electrostatic precipitators (new, upgrades, retrofitting); air/air heat exchangers for clinker and process exhaust; gas conditioning and reaction towers; and standard and tailor-made screw conveyors and air locks.

As an international family enterprise, this company offers future-oriented solutions with chain systems and components for different applications across many industries--hoisting, lifting, or conveying its RUD Hoist Chains, RUD Lifting Means, and RUD Conveying Systems, which feature a guarantee of quality, innovation, and safety. RUD manufactures long-life RUD and Erlau non-skid chains with highly innovative fitting systems for safe driving on snow and icy roads and even in arduous ground applications. RUD and Erlau tire protection chains protect the tire treads and sidewalls of earth moving machines.

Scantech is a world leader in providing process control solutions for bulk materials. The wide range of available technologies and control software ensures that the right solution is chosen in each application. Initially, the compay saw inself as instrument manufacturers. Soon it realized that it also needed to supply display software. And then, on the basis of the instrument's results, it setup automatic feedback to help control plant operations. Now, products have evolved to the extent that we define ourselves as providers of complete process control solutions. Staff have hands-on industrial experience and know the challenges met in real-life situations. Scantech provides a complete solution totally integrated with each client's operations and then form a long-term partnership with our clients to ensure that they receive the maximum return on their process control investment.

For more than 125 years, this company has been a leading manufacturer of bulk solids weighing and feeding equipment. Specializing in the design and supply of pulverized coal feeding systems, weighfeeders, alternative fuel feeding systems, conveyor belt scales, kiln and additive feeders, solids flow meters, screw feeders, static weighing components, and controls, this firm has the product depth and knowledge to meet the dry material handling needs of cement manufacturers worldwide. With global representation in over 75 countries, it is able to offer sales, engineering, service support, and systems designed for all weighing and feeding applications.

This company's samplers-including the Isolok brand sampler and the former Gustafson automatic samplers-are used in the cement industry for sampling slag, clinker, cement, and finished cement. Liquids, slurries, pastes, powders, and pellets can be sampled. This firm can sample from chutes, air-slides, bins, conveyor belts, pneumatic convey lines, and load-out spouts. Applications include raw and finished product, load-out, and custody transfer.

This company is one of Siemens' operating companies in the U.S., with headquarters in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Ga. It manufactures and markets one of the world's broadest ranges of electrical and electronic products, systems and services to industrial and construction market customers. Its technologies range from circuit protection and energy management systems to process control, industrial software, and totally integrated automation solutions. The company also has expertise in systems integration, technical services and turnkey industrial systems.

Solios is a turnkey supplier of emission control systems for cement processes. Supply includes baghouses and gas-to-air heat exchangers for kiln and raw mill, finish mill high efficiency separator, alkali by-pass and clinker cooler applications. The Solios TGT Filter low-pressure pulse-jet baghouse features a number of innovations that lower emissions, increase bag life and result in the lowest total cost of ownership. The TGT Filter is widely employed for new projects and for replacement of older baghouses and electrostatic precipitators.

This company is the world's leader in spray technology and provides nozzles for gas cooling and dust suppression. The company offers both hydraulic and high-efficiency air atomizing nozzles including the widely used FloMax nozzles, which are air efficient, utilize a multi-stage atomization process, and produce a small drop size for reduced dwell time and complete evaporation. Increased production, decreased maintenance, and better operating efficiency are a few of the benefits reported by plants using FloMax nozzles for gas cooling. The company also specializes in nozzles for dust control. Drop size data is available to facilitate selection of nozzles that will absorb air born particles without wetting.

This Canadian company manufacturers industrial equipment, such as air cannons, to help prevent flow and build-up problems.

This company will feature at its booth information about particle size analyzers using laser light diffraction. HELOS laser diffraction system for dry powder (with unique dispersing capabilities down to 0.1 microns) covers a size range from 0.1 to 8,750 microns. The company's MYTOS is designed for laboratory and “in-pipe” continuous laser diffraction for dry powders to 1,750 microns, while TWISTER is for isokinetic sampling in pipelines for dry powders.

Since 1974, this company has specialized in the design, manufacture, sales, and service of high-temperature, industrial CCTV and imaging systems. Years of experience have led to the development of systems for both imaging and non-contact, high-temperature monitoring of virtually all kiln and furnace applications.

This company is an award-winning provider of design/build construction services to the cement, mineral, feed, grain, flour milling, grain processing, pet food, and food industries. With its dedicated staff of construction and engineering professionals, the cost-effective solutions available from this company include slipform concrete storage, bulk material handling conveying systems, remodeling/renovation projects, millwright equipment installation, conceptual facility design, structural engineering, and construction management.

The mission of Technical Felts and its partners is to advance the cause of clean air by providing technically certified APEX filter media and filter bags and other clean air technologies at more affordable prices on a global basis. Industrial filtration began with woven filter media in shaker baghouses. However, due to the relatively large pore sizes of woven filter media, these systems were beset by high emission rates and low operating hours. The advent of needlefelts and pulse jet baghouses led to a dramatic reduction in emission rates and significant increase in filter bag operating hours. But then inauguration of fluidized bed and stoker combustion systems led to the generation of even finer particles, causing standard needlefelts to suffer from reduced service life, higher pressure drops and higher emission rates. The development of PTFE membranes caused a major transformation in the filtration industry. Because laminating these to needlefelt and woven filter media substrates diminished pore sizes, leading to significant reduction in emission rates, extended service life, and reduced pressure drop. The drawback with the state of the PTFE membrane industry is significantly higher prices. This is why Technical Felts and its partners have made it their mission to furnish technically certified PTFE membrane laminated filter media and filter bags to the filtration industry at relatively more affordable prices. The APEX brand has made significant inroads in every corner of the globe.

This company's TEI Fluidizer makes airslides work better with less energy. Ideal for large storage silos and domes, the TEI Fluidizer improves discharge rates even when cement inventory is low. Improve throughput at a shipping terminal, recover dead cement right down to the cloth without confined entry, and take back that 10% to 20% silo capacity. The TEI Fluidizer uses Pneumatic Modulation Technology and attaches to an existing blower.

Founded in 1964, this company designs, manufactures, and erects clear-span, maintenance-free aluminum domes and related space frames used for covering tankage and storage facilities of all types and shapes. More than 7,000 of this firm's domes have been installed throughout the world since its first aluminum dome for a water storage was built in 1968. Since that time, the largest known dome-covered bulk storage facility in the world using eleven 120-meter domes for coal storage was completed in Taiwan.

This full-service compressor company with lines of rotary lobe, rotary vane, reciprocating, rotary screw, and liquid ring compressors. The firm distributes, fabricates, and services its line of production nationally with offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Atlanta. It is fully equipped to sell, service, and fabricate blower and compression systems for oil and gas, environmental, and the general industrial sectors.

This firm is the world leader in serving science, enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. The company helps solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery, and provides the world's largest and most innovative cement producers with leading edge solutions that ensure product quality, improve plant profitability, and create safer and cleaner production lines. It specializes in analytical spectroscopy; online analyzers; gas analysis; conveyor equipment; and material weighing, feeding, and monitoring.

This company is the leader in infrared temperature measurement for the global cement industry. The award-winning WinCEM 3D Graphic Kiln Shell Scanning System provides real-time 3D kiln data visualization with many significant new features added. ThermaScope SLK is a high-temperature radiometric kiln and cooler camera with real-time imaging for improved efficiency, increased combustion control, and lower pollution. A low-cost, non-radiometric version of the same camera (ThermaScope HTV) is also available. Also being demonstrated are the company's WinBrix Refractory Expert Software, and VisIR handheld infrared camera for predictive maintenance.

This company, which also operates as New York Blower Co., designs and fabricates custom engineered fans at its recently expanded facility near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Fans range from 100 to 10,000 hp, for cement plant applications, including under-grate cooler, preheater kiln, and raw mill fans. The firm specializes in high-temperature and high-dust-load applications. The quality program is registered to ISO 9001-2000 and welding is performed using approved welders and procedures in accordance with Canadian Welding Standards (equivalent to AWS D1.1).

This company is a joint venture between General Electric, Toshiba, and Mitsubishi Electric in the industrial system drives business. The companies came together starting in 2000 to create an organization of 2,200 people with annual sales of $2.1 billion. It works to provide superior products and excellent service, delivering customer success every project, every time. For over a century, GE has had a strong presence in the cement industry. The joint venture continues that tradition with the supply of products to the cement industry, including motors, variable frequency drives, motor control centers, switchgear, and automation.

This company has been involved in the design, application, engineering, and manufacture of a complete line of chain conveyors, enclosed belt conveyors, specially designed conveyors, and conveyor conversions since 1967. A combination of design, engineering, proper component selection, manufacturing, and service after the sale has made this company the source for consulting and supply in bulk material handling situations. Conveyors meet the criteria for delivering product for various industries such as chemical, coal, food and grain, mining, plastic, pulp, rubber and paper, or solid waste and recycling.

This firm is a leading supplier of equipment for air pollution control and industrial process improvement. SoniCool evaporative gas cooling and conditioning provides accurate temperature and humidity control to condition flue gases and particulate. The TurboSorb semi-dry scrubber removes S02 and HCl from process gas steams. SonicBURN waste fuel burner nozzles and lances provide high-efficiency combustion in kilns. The company has significant industry experience and application knowledge in hundreds of installations.

Turnell Corp. is a multidisciplinary engineering firm focused on developing projects and solutions for industrial facilities. Its philosophy is to build long-term relationships with clients and suppliers. By doing so, the company provides a consistently higher quality service to clients and gives it a platform for growth. Primary markets are cement manufacturing, lime manufacturing, energy, and mining.

This company's product lines include diverter and shut-off valves for pneumatic conveying, crusher and clinker hammers, drag conveyor chains, kiln nose ring segments, mill liners, and custom castings. The company specializes in the manufacture and supply of replacement parts for the cement industry and provides on-site casting design service. It carries a large inventory of diverter valves and hammers and can usually deliver custom castings in less than 10 weeks.

This firm is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and optimization of ball mill internals and sophisticated wear components utilized in the Cement, mining, quarry, and power generation industries. All facilities are ISO 9000 certified. We are committed to a total-value approach where process and maintenance concerns are integrated to create the optimum outcome.

This company is one of the most experienced specialty industrial service providers in North America. Primary activities are: new construction, shutdown repairs and planning-programs, emergency repairs, engineering, large gear, pinion, mill head supplier to OEM specifications, turnkey project capabilities, and ASME certified.

This firm is the world's largest producer of ePTFE membrane filters and laminates for the minerals industry. Product offerings increase dust and product collection efficiency in industrial baghouses while drastically eliminating costly downtime. The Industrial Filtration Group offers solutions for cement baghouses, including the company's Filtration Products, which offer customized solutions for optimizing total baghouse performance; and Remedia Catalytic Filter System, a cost-effective way to remove dioxin and furans to levels far below regulatory limits.

This firm develops, manufactures, and sells build-to-suit material handling system components including, rotary airlock feeders, screwveyor pumps, double flapgate valves, slide gates, diverter valves, rotary plug valves, and pressure or vacuum blower packages. Cement, asphalt, chemical processing, power plant operations, plastics, food, pharmaceutical, pulp/paper, and grain are some of the primary markets served. Meyer engineered products are used in conjunction with pneumatic conveying, dust collection, ventilation, aeration, volumetric feeding, and process metering. Products are distributed both domestically and internationally through a network or manufacturer's reps and distributors.

This firm is a specialty supplier, designer, and installer of wear and abrasion resistant products. With nearly 75 years combined service in the steel fabrication industry, the company offers solutions to some of the toughest wear problems in conveying systems, clinker handling systems, crushing operations, and pipelines in sand and gravel plants. The company also offers turn-key installations with MSHA Part 46-certified field crews.

Established in 1966, this firm is a private company that manufactures a range of tubular welding wire-low-, mid-, and high-alloy hardfacing, mild steel fabrication, stainless steel, nickel base, cobalt base, all in different diameters ranging from 0.9 to 5 mm, using the company's own manufacturing technology. Additionally, the firm manufactures custom-designed modular welding equipment, including semi-automatic wire feeders, portable automatic machines for in-situ work, and fully automatic machines including component manipulation with robotic controls.

WorleyParsons is a leading provider of professional services to the energy, resources, and complex processes industries. The company provides services to the following sectors: hydrocarbons, minerals & metals, infrastructure and power. WorleyParsons is a company whose success has resulted from outstanding project delivery for customers around the world. Operational and corporate performance includes, as its primary item, Health, Safety & Environmental performance. WorleyParsons targets Zero Harm, a culture inherent in all levels of the organization, driven through the implementation of systems, processes and training programs; and measured against aggressive yearly targets on Key Performance Indicators and audit results.