thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has received a contract from Heidelberg­Cement AG to supply a new cement clinker production line The 4500 t/d facility will be built at the Schelklingen plant in Baden-Württemberg/Germany as a replacement for an existing older production line...

In the manufacture of Portland cement, clinker occurs as lumps or nodules, usually 3 millimetres (012 in) to 25 millimetres (098 in) in diameter, produced by sintering (fusing together without melting to the point of liquefaction) limestone and aluminosilicate materials such as clay during the cement kiln stage...

The clinker plant comprises of feed pre crusher, feed hopper, table feeders, ball mill, packaging cement plant and material handling equipment However, the operation of the plant consists of basically four processes viz quarry, raw mill grinding, coal grinding and kiln-burning...