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The versatility of multi-compartment cement silos

• 1 Large single-cell central cone silo

• 2 Silo bottom of a central cone silo

• 3 Basic multi-compartment silo options

• 4 IBAU ring silo design

• 5 Multi-compartment silos evolved from the ring...

• 6 Holcim Dotternhausen cement plant

• 7 New multi-compartment silo in Dotternhausen

• 8 Silo discharge equipment for outer section

• 9 IBAU Simplex loader

• 10 Truck loading lane

• 11 Phu Huu grinding and cement distribution plant

• 12 Multi-compartment ring silo

• 13 Bulk loading onto barges

• 14 Bag loading onto small boats

• 15 Shurovsky cement silos

• 16 Multi-compartment silo under construction

• 17 Prefabricated central cone elements

• New Dotternhausen Silo

Summary: Multi-compartment silos are very important for all those cement production plants that are willing to simplify their cement storage needs for different cement types. The main advantages of such a silo should be variable storage cells for the individual needs and to transport and distribute the cement from any of the individual compartments to any of the downstream loading, transport and packing installations. The present article summarizes experiences gained with installations IBAU HAMBURG has supplied in the last few years.

Globally there is a trend towards Portland-Composite Cements and Puzzolan cements. In Germany,  for example, in the last 15 years the amount of CEM I cements has decreased from about 75  % to less than 30  %, while in parallel a number of different CEM II and CEM III cements have been introduced. In some developing countries such as India or Brazil, CEM I cement types still account for only a small proportion of the cement production. As the variety of cements  in the production lines is increasing, multi-compartment silos are increasingly used in the terminal design. Such silos...