cement manufacture
1Cement kiln — Cement kilns are used for the pyroprocessing stage of manufacture of Portland and other types of hydraulic cement, in which calcium carbonate reacts with silica bearing minerals to form a mixture of calcium silicates. Over a billion tonnes of… …
2Cement — In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. The name cement goes back to the Romans who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry… …
3Cement-bonded wood fiber — is a composite material manufactured in Canada. It is made from wood (usually waste wood), chipped into a specially graded aggregate that is then mineralized and combined with portland cement. It may be used as a substitute for asbestos in some… …
4cement — cementable, adj. cementer, n. cementless, adj. /si ment /, n. 1. any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material. 2. any of various… …
5Cement mill — A 10 MW cement mill, output 270 tonnes per hour A cement mill (or finish mill in North American usage[1]) is the equipment used to grind the hard, nodular clinker from the cement kiln into the fine grey powder that is cement. Most cement is… …
6cement — A powdered substance made by grinding calcined limestone and clay, which can be mixed with water and poured to set as a solid mass or used as a binding ingredient in mortar or concrete. Sometimes called Portland cement after an important early …
7cement clinker — noun : the glassy clinkerlike product of fusing together clay and limestone as the first stage in the manufacture of portland cement …
8Portland cement — is the most common type of cement in general usage in many parts of the world, as it is a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco and most non specialty grout. It is a fine powder produced by Portland cement clinker (more than 90%), a… …
9White Portland cement — or white ordinary Portland cement (WOPC) is similar to ordinary, gray Portland cement in all respects except for its high degree of whiteness. Obtaining this color requires substantial modification to the method of manufacture, and because of… …
10Arabian Cement Co. — Infobox Company company name = Arabian Cement Co. company company type = Public foundation = 1988 location = Al Khums, Libya key people = Mohammed Ali Sakkah (Chairman) Moustafa Al Tafouh (General Manager, Technical and Production) Jouma Hundar… …
