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How Is Clinker Manufactured

Clinker is manufactured in a 7 step process: 1) limestone, shale, and sandstone are quarried and crushed into small aggregates, 2) the raw materials are mixed and pre-homogenized, 3) the raw mix is further ground down and blended, 4) the raw mill powder is fed into a pre-heater along with coal that is also ground, 5) the materials are pre-heated and burned in a kiln to produce clinker through the processes of drying, pre-heating, calcination, and clinkering, 6) the hot clinker is cooled and stored, 7) the finished clinker is then delivered.

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How Is Clinker Manufactured

Clinker is manufactured in a 7 step process: 1) limestone, shale, and sandstone are quarried and crushed into small aggregates, 2) the raw materials are mixed and pre-homogenized, 3) the raw mix is further ground down and blended, 4) the raw mill powder is fed into a pre-heater along with coal that is also ground, 5) the materials are pre-heated and burned in a kiln to produce clinker through the processes of drying, pre-heating, calcination, and clinkering, 6) the hot clinker is cooled and stored, 7) the finished clinker is then delivered.

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How is Clinker manufactured?

Step 1: Quarrying
Limestone, shale and sandstone form the main raw materials to manufacture clinker. For
CMS Clinker, all three materials are quarried within its plant at Mambong, ensuring a
continuous supply of quality raw materials.

Step 2: Crushing & Storage of Raw Materials


Different crushers are used for the three raw materials to obtain aggregates of less than 60
mm in size limestone is crushed by a hammer crusher, shale is put through a roller crusher
and sandstone is crushed by a portable jaw crusher. The resulting crushed materials are then
stored in silos and storage halls.

Step 3: Mixing & Pre-homogenising


Limestone (making up 78% of the raw materials), shale (12%) and sandstone (10%) are
mixed together and pre-homogenised using a boom stacker. This process results in raw mix.
A reclaimed is then used to transfer this raw mix.

Step 4: Pre-Grinding & Grinding


This next step involves a further reduction in size of the raw mix (92%), limestone (6%) and
copper slag/iron ore components (2%). These raw materials are ground with a vertical roller
mill (VRM) to achieve an 82% passing rate through a 75-micron sieve.
The resulting fine raw mill powder is then blended in the blending silo and transported as kiln
feed to a pre-heater. The coal used as fuel for the kiln is also ground using a vertical roller
mill to a fine powder which has an 80% passing rate through a 90-micron sieve.

Step 5: Pre-Heating & Burning

The fine powdered raw mill and kiln feed are fed to the 5 stage pre-heater and kiln. Here, the
clinkering process happens:
70 100 C: Drying
100 750 C: Pre-heating
750 1000 C: Calcination
1000 1500 C: Clinkering

Step 6: Cooling & Storing


From the kiln, the hot clinker is cooled to a temperature of 100 C at the walking cooler
which uses ten cooling fans. The clinker is further crushed to smaller diameter in size using a
hammer crusher pan conveyor system to the clinker silo.

Step 7: Delivery
CMS Clinker has the capacity to deliver 2800 MT per day of clinker.

Area 1: Quarrying and Raw Material Preparation

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